Wagin War Memorial

Details

Location War Memorial Swimming Centre, Trimdon Street, Wagin, Western Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The memorial consists of a broken grey granite pillar, broken to symbolise the lives broken and destroyed by war

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 29 March 1925 by Governor Sir Willam Campion
Inscription

Lest we forget

At the setting of the sun and in the morning we will remember them

[ Names ]

Erected by the residents of Wagin and District in memory of those who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1918

Left Side Inscription
Lest we forget

[ Names ]

World War 1939 - 1945

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

PIESSE, Vernon Frederick

Service number OFFICER
Captain
10th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 23 Aug 1889

BOOKER, William

Service number 3045
Private
28th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1885

PADLEY, Jack William

Service number 4688
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1886

MCKENNA, Walter William

Service number 4665
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

DAVIES, Stewart Maitland George

Service number WX4135
Lance Corporal
2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 21 Dec 1916

HEIGHT, Horace Letcher

Service number 954
Private
28th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

PIESSE, Charles Oxley

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 8 Apr 1891

HENDRY, Douglas Anderson

Service number 2664A
Corporal
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 11 Dec 1892

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