Minlaton War Memorial WW1

Details

Location Main Street, Minlaton, Yorke Peninsula - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

In the plantation divider in a small garden. A white marble statue of a soldier standing at ease with a tree trunk supporter behind the right leg surmounted on a capped polished granite pedestal. A slab of uncut granite sections the pedestal. The pedestal is set on a two-tier pink granite and three-tier grey granite base. All details are in gold leaf.

The local paper described the unveiling on Sunday 19th November 1922, and lists the names of the men. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199111054

The VWMA site for the memorial lists 86 names. There are many more as shown in the photos and in the newspaper report – 111 of whom 30 died.

The front face shows those who died while the 2 sides have the others who enlisted. The rear face names 3 YMCA workers.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 19 November 1922
Inscription

Face: Upper pedestal:

ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS OFMINLATON AND DISTRICTIN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THEGREAT WAR 1914-1919

Pedestal lower:

SACREDTO THE MEMORY OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Minlaton Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Letters fading

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

FRIDLINGTON, John

Service number S461
Private
18 Garrison Battalion (SA)
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 18 Sep 1890

MCKENZIE, Fred

Service number 3737
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 1884

DODD, Arthur Leslie

Service number 1855
Private
5th Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1

HOYLE, Fergus Sydney

Service number 5123
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Nov 1897

TREHEARNE, Walter Edwin

Service number 4288
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

CROSER, Willie Gordon

Service number 2588
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Dec 1887

MATTHEWS, Kenneth

Service number 2438B
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 5 May 1894

CHEWINGS, Charles Coolgardie

Service number 239
Sergeant
Born 9 Dec 1894

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