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Location Pioneers Memorial Park, Norton Street, Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A grey marble obelisk surmounted by 3 steps and the figure of a lady at the top

Built Gilbert Doble
Opened by His Excellency Sir Walter Davidson
Inscription

Honor to the dead

[ Names ]

W.M.Currey V.C J.Mackey V.C
1914-1918 1939-1945

Erected By The Citizens In Grateful Remembrance of the men of Leichhardt Who Gave Their Lives For God King And Country In The Great War
1914 – 1919

"They died that we might be free"

Plaque :

THIS 77MM FIELD GUN WAS CAPTURED BY THE 53RD BATTALION A.I.F. DURING OPERATIONS NEAR PERONNE IN FRANCE ON
SEPTEMBER 1st 1918, AND IT WAS FOR CONSPICUOUS GALLANTRY DISPLAYED IN SUCH CAPTURE THAT PTE. WILLIAM MATTHEW CURREY OF LEICHHARDT WAS AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS .

Left Side Inscription
[ Names ]

1939 - 1945

[ Names ]

Back Inscription
[ Names ]

James Gorman V.C.
5 - 11 - 1854
Battle Of Inkerman

Unveiled By His Excellency Sir Walter E. Davidson, K.C.M.G. Governor of New South Wales
9th April 1922

Right Side Inscription
[ Names ]

1939 - 1945

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Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

KELLY, Herbert Angustine

Service number 6360
Private
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

THOMPSON, William

Service number 691
Corporal
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born May 1892

ELDRIDGE, James Herbert

Service number 6714
Private
8th Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born 1892

ASHTON, Alfred

Service number 4972
Private
34th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 3 Aug 1898

PARKES, Adrian Wesley

Service number 5486
Lieutenant
1st Light Trench Mortar Battery
AIF WW1
Born 7 Jul 1893

NELMES, Arthur Reginald

Service number 944
Lance Corporal
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Nov 1879

PERKINS, Edward Claude

Service number 4503
Private
17th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Mar 1900

LEWIS, Henry Robert

Service number 1211
Private
4th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

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