Marchant Park Memorial Gates

Details

Location Marchant Park, Gympie & Murphy Roads, Chermside, Brisbane - Queensland, Australia
Type memorial_gates
Description

4 Sandstone Pillars at gated entrance to park with white marble plaques on front and rear with names inscribed

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

(Inner Column)

1914

Erected
in honour
of those who enlisted
from Kedron Shire
in the Great War

1914 - 1919.

Fallen
[ Names ]

Enlistments
[ Names ]

(Outer Column)

Enlistments

[ Names ]

South African War
1901 - 1902
[ Names ]

Right Side Inscription
(Inner Column)

1919

Enlistments

[ Names ]

Chermside and Districts Historical Society Inc restored the names, destroyed by vandals in 1972, on these gates in August 2003. Financed by the Gambling Community Benefits Fund of the Queensland Government

MARCHANT PARK

(Outer Column)

(Rear)
ENLISTMENTS
(Names)

ENLISTMENTS
(Names)

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

BUNKUM, William Edward Harold

Service number 2868
Trooper
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

TROUT, Roy Cumestree

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
Born 27 Jan 1895

ABBOTT, Frank

Service number 3755
Lance Corporal
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 23 May 1896

NELMES, Leonard Walter

Service number 245
Private
4th Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Aug 1887

WEBSTER, George Arthur

Service number 8809
Private
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

LOVE, Russell

Service number 13403
Corporal
5th Divisional Ammunition Column
AIF WW1
Born 9 Mar 1893

ALBURY, Oliver Ernest

Service number 20764
Gunner
12th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 16 Jul 1894

BUNKUM, Harry

Service number 20916
Gunner
3rd Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born Mar 1894

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