Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOONTA 5558

MEMORIAL: Monument

LOCATION: Blanche Terrace, in the entrance to the Moonta Memorial Park Bowling Club

ORIENTATION: Northwest

DESCRIPTION: A white marble statue of a soldier standing at ease with a tree trunk support behind the left leg surmounted on a capped three-tier granite pedestal and a three-tier stepped granite base and concrete slab. On each face is a grey granite plaque. All details are in gold leaf.

INSCRIPTIONS:
Face:
Pedestal top tier:

MOONTA'S HEROES

OF THE

GREAT EUROPEAN WAR

1914-1919

A. H. MURRIN T. J. MURRIN J. McTAVISH P. OLIFENT R. POLGLASE L. E. POLLARD W. R. C. POLLARD C. H. QUINTRELL J. QUINTRELL P. QUINTRELL R. QUINTRELL D. REED C. FREEMAN J. C. GLOVER

Pedestal second tier:

 

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF OUR HEROIC DEAD

 

BY THE PEOPLE OF

MOONTA AND DISTRICT

1920

Pedestal lower tier:

 

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN

WORLD WAR 2 1939-1945

THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD,

AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN,

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING,

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Base second tier:

 

TO THE MEMORY OF THE FALLEN

MALAYSIA KOREA VIETNAM

AND OF ALL OTHER AUSTRALIANS WHO HAVE

FALLEN IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY

LEST WE FORGET

Left:
Pedestal top tier:

FOR KING AND COUNTRY

W. ABBOTT P. S. ANDERSON P. BEAGLEHOLE C. E. BODINNER E. M. BRADSHAW M.M. H. J. BRAY H. BROKENSHIRE W. BROKENSHIRE W. H. CAMERON W. ELLERY R. FRANCIS J. GILL W. G. GRIFFITHS H. HAGUE H. HOLLIS B. HUMPHRIES J. KEEN W. LEARMOUTH A. H. LEIGHTON J. MARTIN C. NANKIVELL

Pedestal lower:

LEST WE FORGET

R. HUGHES S. MOON R. F. HOSKING G. MURRIN T. LODGE M.M. F. PERRY E. MILFORD I. SPRY

Back:
Pedestal upper:

Etched badge of the RSL

MOONTA SUB BRANCH

 

H. E. BARBARY T. S. BACKMAN

 

B. L. GRUMMETT E. M. MITTO C. H. PEDLEY W. C. PEDLEY

Pedestal lower:

 

LEST WE FORGET

R. PHILLIPS SIS. M. TRENERRY L. SANDERS F. L. WOODWARD J. R. SMITH J. O. WORRALL E. C. SIMS J. GLOYN

Right:
Pedestal upper:

DUTY NOBLY DONE

R. H. RITTER M.M. D. P. ROACH R. C. ROSE M.M. R. ROWE F. T. ROWE S. SEYFANG F. M. SHAW D.C.M. R. T. SHIELDS W. A. G. SHORTER T. SLEEP E. J. SMITH A. J. SMITH A. THOMAS S. J. THOMAS L. A. L. TREBILCOCK R. D. TREMBATH G. C. VERCOE W. R. VERRAN F. WILLARD J. J. WILLIAMS

Pedestal lower:

LEST WE FORGET

L. ANDREW G. E. DOWLING W. BENNETT P. G. DOWLING L. CHAPMAN J. C. FINLAY M. CHAPPEL B. HICKS

WHEN BUILT/ERECTED: 1920

MANUFACTURED BY: K.C.& E. Goerecke MOONTA

MAINTAINED BY: RSL

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: 26 Mar 02