Wagga Wagga Cenotaph

Details

Location Victory Memorial Gardens, Baylis & Morrow Streets, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The Cenotaph was originally unveiled in memory of the fallen of World War One.

The panels bear the name of 202 soldiers from Wagga who were killed in World War One, and also commemorates those who were killed in World War Two and Vietnam.

Built Pitt & Morrow (Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.)
Opened 17 September 1922
Inscription

FOR GOD
KING AND
COUNTRY

Erected To The Memory Of
The Men Of Wagga Wagga
And District
Who Fell In The Great War
1914-1918.

(NAMES)

Left Side Inscription
(Names)
Back Inscription
FOR GOD
KING AND
COUNTRY

Erected To The Memory Of
The Men Of Wagga Wagga
And District
Who Fell In The Great War
1914-1918.

(NAMES)

Right Side Inscription
(Names)

To The Memory Of
Those Who Fell In Vietnam
1962 - 1973
(Names)

Condition

Good

Names

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MCKENZIE, Alexander Murdock

Service number 6293
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 6 Jun 1877

MCDONALD, Hector Donald

Service number 2171
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

DUKE, Reginald Herbert

Service number 1096
Private
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

EDMONDSON, John Hurst

Service number NX15705
Corporal
2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 8 Oct 1914

LIERSCH, Claude Charles

Service number 421917
Flight Sergeant
No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 10 May 1920

ALCHIN, Oliver Henry Gordon

Service number 1611
Private
55th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Dec 1893

BEATTIE, John Rolston

Service number 3779
Private
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jun 1893

BRUCE, Charles James Gordon

Service number 6472
Private
3rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

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