Lower North Adelaide War Memorial WW1

Details

Location Soldiers Memorial Gardens, Finniss Street and Mackinnon Parade , North Adelaide, Adelaide - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Soldiers Memorial Gardens.   A stone and cement, concrete arched monument set on a concrete base. Two bronze plaques are affixed to the face, the lower plaque list the names of those that enlisted from the district.

The Lower North Adelaide Soldiers' Memorial, at the corner of Jerningham Street and Mackinnon Parade has been unveiled by His Excellency the Governor ( Sir Archibal Weigall) on March 19. A meeting of the committee to finalise matters was held at the residence of Councillor Wallace Bruce on Thursday evening. The City Council has agreed to take over the care and control of the memorial and to lay out the ground surrounding it. Footpaths will be made and lawns, trees and shrubs will be planted.
Daily Herald (Adelaide), 9th July 1921

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 19 March 1921 by His Excellency the Governor ( Sir Archibal Weigall)
Inscription

Top plaque:

SONS OF THIS PLACE, LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID,THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD;THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAPA RICHER HARVEST ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP.____________________

THIS TABLET WAS PRESENTED TO THE DISTRICT BY COUNCILLOR WALLACE BRUCE.

Lower plaque:

1914


FOR KING AND COUNTRY


1918

LOWER NORTH


Effigy of a rising sun hat badge within two flags


SOLDIERS'

ADELAIDE


 

MEMORIAL

Base of Plaque:

ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS 1920

Condition

Good

MAINTAINED BY: Adelaide City Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Large crack in the cement arch - (repaired by 2024)

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

ROBINSON, Leonard Victor

Service number 911
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 15 Nov 1894

WEBB, Walter James

Service number 3956
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 15 Aug 1895

STEVENS, William Henry

Service number 2591
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 Apr 1885

HEMING, Thomas George

Service number 554
Major
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Jan 1883

HANSBERRY, John Matthew

Service number 3449
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

LIDDLE, Clarence

Service number 2688
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Sep 1895

WILLIAMS, Lance Frederick

Service number 3203
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1893

MCCLOUGHRY, Wilfred Ashton

Service number OFFICER
Air Commodore
Unspecified British Units
British Forces (All Conflicts)
Born 26 Nov 1894

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