Kapunda and District Fallen Soldiers Monument

Details

Location Junction of Mildred Street, Clare Road and Kapunda Street, Kapunda, Light - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A white marble memorial, comprising a statue of a soldier standing at "Rest on Arms Reversed" with right hand over left and rifle muzzle between the feet surmounted on a capped pedestal and two-tier surbase that in turn is mounted on a three-tier rough-cut granite base and concrete slab. All details are in black paint. The monument is enclosed within an ornate posts and chains fence, the area is set with cream pavers. Four brass plaques are set on the faces of the third tier.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face:Pedestal cap:

LESTWE FORGET

 

Sur-base top tier:

1914-1919

Lower tier:

KAPUNDAAND DISTRICTFALLEN SOLDIERS MONUMENT

Left, pedestal:

TO HONOURTHOSE WHO SERVEDKOREAN WAR1950-1953VIETNAM WAR1962-1973

Back, pedestal:

WORLD WAR 111939-1945LEST WE FORGET

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Kapunda Council and R.S.L.

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

LUNDSTEN, Harrold

Service number 6286
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 2 Apr 1900

TRINNE, Benjamin Waldemar

Service number 1511
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 May 1897

WHITBREAD, Leslie John

Service number 2439
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 2 Feb 1892

GURRY, Joseph

Service number 1751
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 Jul 1888

DADDS, Lincoln Clapcott

Service number 417622
Flying Officer
No. 228 Squadron (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 12 Feb 1918

GILES, Paul Bailey

Service number 417475
Flight Sergeant
Born 24 Jan 1923

BETTERMAN, Donald Richard

Service number 24305
Able Seaman
HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Royal Australian Navy
Born 28 Oct 1919

THOMAS, Albert

Service number 3627
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 Aug 1884

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