Norwood War Memorial

Details

Location Corner Osmond Terrace & The Parade, Norwood (SA), South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A grey granite memorial comprising a tapered square cut column surmounted on a pedestal and two-tier base and concrete slab. At the top face and back of the column are bronze wreaths. On the pedestal faces are bronze wreaths. The monument is set in a rose garden road in a road plantation.

Built Architect, H.F.R. Culley. Contractor, Dawes and Chisholm. Bronze work by Hitchcox Bros, Adelaide
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Top plaque:
Wreath, inside the wreath is a teardrop shaped effigy with the dedication
LEST WE FORGET 1914 1918

Lower plaque:

THESE GARDENS WERE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE DURING WORLD WAR 11
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER MORE"

Left:

Wreath
Top plaque:
KENSINGTON & NORWOOD SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
ALD.N.SOLOMONS. CHAIRMAN.
ALD.W.G.AULD.
ALD.W.S.HANSON.
CR.J.J.WOODS.
E.O.GOODEN.
TOWN CLERK HON SEC.P.GANNONI.
MAYOR H.F.R.CULLEY.
DAWES & CHISHOLM.ARCHITECT. CONTRACTORS.BRONZE WORK. HITCHCOX BROS. ADELAIDE.

Lower plaque:
ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF KENSINGTON AND NORWOOD TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
Right:
Wreath

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Norwood Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

IRELAND, William John

Service number 1937
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 5 May 1898

NASH, Brunel John

Service number 702
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 29 May 1887

NEVILLE, George

Service number 458
Private
24th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

BLOTT, Harold William

Service number 1680
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1898

BLACKET, Joseph Arnold

Service number 1667
Lieutenant
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 28 Aug 1894
Norwood Football Club 1915

HEITHERSAY, William Stocks

Service number 15934
Sapper
Born 27 Feb 1891

PHILLIPS, Robert Cremer

Service number 1557
Corporal
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Aug 1892

OPIE, Victor Alan

Service number 1392
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 6 Sep 1887

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