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Service number 3373
Private
Born Jun 1895
Service number 2672
Private
29th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Jan 1898
Service number 3256
Lance Corporal
57th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1896
Location | 13 Ryrie Street, Geelong, Greater Geelong - Victoria, Australia |
Type | stained_glass_window |
Description | The Argus reported the intention of the congregation to perpetuate the memory of the fallen soldiers who enlisted by installing a commemorative window and also an honour roll with the names of those members who served. On Sunday 11 December 1921 the window and two brass tablets were unveiled by Brigadier-General Robert Smith during a special memorial service conducted by the Chaplain-General, the Rev. JL Rentoul. In the 1920s the figure of the Australian soldier,instead of a saint or a Roman soldier, was only just beginning to find acceptance in church windows and the stained glass artist, William Montgomery (1850-1927) went to some lengths to ensure that details of dress and weaponry were correct in every detail. Montgomery's preliminary sketches of the Australian army slouch hat and the rifle that both lie beside the knee of the uniformed soldier in the left-hand light can be found in the Montgomery collection at the State Library of Victoria. |
Built | Not yet discovered |
Opened | Not yet discovered |
Inscription | Thine O Lord is the greatness and the power and the glory, and the victory and the majesty |
Condition | Good |
Showing 3 people of interest from memorial
Service number 3373
Private
Born Jun 1895
Service number 2672
Private
29th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Jan 1898
Service number 3256
Lance Corporal
57th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1896