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Location Hinsby Park, Johnston & North Piper Streets, Annandale, Leichhardt - New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

It is in the form of an obelisk that incorporates curved seating, and was the result of an architectural competition drafted and judged by the New South Wales Monuments Advisory Board in 1920. The architect R. Keith Harris won the first prize of 15 pounds
The memorial cost 1,250 pounds and was constructed by the builder F. Gagliardi. The memorial is unusual in including a 'plot of remembrance' near the memorial, this is a ersatz grave which allowed mourners to remember their dead at a more personal level.

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Built Monument Designer: R.Keith Harris (architect) Monument Manufacturer: Edwards (Lismore, N.S.W.)
Opened 4 December 1921 by Brigadier General I. G. Mackay, C.M.G., D.S.O.
Inscription

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Erected by the citizens of Annandale to the memory of the men of this District who made the supreme sacrific in the Great War

1914 - 1920

Back Inscription
To the immortal dead

Condition

Good

Names

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JENNINGS, John Inglis

Service number 1370
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 2 Jul 1892

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GULLIKSEN, Robert

Service number 6734
Lance Corporal
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

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MURDEN, Robert Raymond

Service number 1525
Private
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Apr 1888

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WILLIAMSON, Alexander

Service number 4964
Private
56th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

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STALKER, William Lionel

Service number 180
Private
36th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

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BAIN, Kenneth

Service number 5976
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

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MELOY, Sydney Alexander

Service number 3361
Private
53rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

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GEORGE, Frank Alderley Charles

Service number 332
Corporal
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1891

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