Naracoorte War Memorial

Details

Location Smith Street, Naracoorte, Naracoorte and Lucindale - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A white Italian marble statue of a WW1 digger standing at ease with a tree stump support behind the right leg, the statue is surmounted on four capped white marble columns that in turn are mounted on a pedestal of red Taranta Granite and three tier Footscray grey granite base. All details are in black, white marble plaques are affixed to base.

Built Wooles and Carpenter, sculptors, Warrnambool in conjunction with Oddling and Sons of Sydney and Melbourne.
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face: On top of columns:

SACRIFICE

Pedestal:

IN MEMORIAMNAMES OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR

 

THIS MEMORIAL HAS BEEN ERECTED BYTHE RESIDENTS OF THE NARACOORTE DISTRICT IN PROUD, LOVING, AND GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THESETHEIR BRAVE LADS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919."GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFEFOR HIS FRIENDS

Plaque on top tier of base:

UNVEILED BYLIEUT. COL. W.C.N.WAITEON 4TH AUGUST 1922

Plaque on second tier of base: Manufacturer details.

Left: On top of columns:

FORTITUDE

Pedestal:

IN MEMORIUMNAMES OF THOSE WHO FELL IN WORLD WAR11

 

Plaque on top tier of base:

UNVEILED BYBRIGADIER T.C.EASTICK D.S.O. E.D.ON 13TH MAY 1951

Back: On top of columns:

COURAGE

Pedestal:

IN MEMORIAMNAMES OF THOSE WHO FELLWORLD WAR 11

 

KOREA

 

Right: On top of columns:

VICTORY

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Naracoorte Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: W.P. Hoggarth in white lettering, letters fading.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

YOUNGER, John James Affleck

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1879

HOOD, James Edward

Service number 5015
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 8 Aug 1889

CHURCH, David Campbell

Service number 417992
Flight Lieutenant
No. 207 Squadron (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 24 May 1924

THOMAS, Ronald George Albert

Service number R/5763
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HAHN, William

Service number 728
Trooper
10th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1887

COLE, George James

Service number 3031
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 28 Dec 1886

CRAIG, Douglas Stewart

Service number SX6716
Private
Born 2 Jan 1917

BLACKSELL, William Richard

Service number 3023
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 29 Sep 1892

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