Orroroo War Memorial

Details

Location Second Street, Orroroo, Orroroo/Carrieton - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

In the plantation street divider. A white marble memorial, comprising a statue of a soldier standing at "Rest on Arms Reversed" with left hand over right and the muzzle of the rifle on the left boot supported behind the left leg by a tree trunk, on a capped pedestal and rough-cut granite block, that in turn is mounted on a three-tier concrete base and slab. Between the pedestal cap and its base are capped pillars at each corner symbolically forming a cenotaph. All details are in black. On the left face is a white marble plaque and a bronze plaque, on the back is a bronze plaque. The memorial is enclosed within an eight stone post and steel chain fence. Behind the monument is a flagpole.

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Inscription

Pedestal base:

ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT OF ORROROOIN MEMORY OFTHE MEN WHO FELL IN THE WORLD WAR,1914-1918.

Left:Marble plaque:

ROLLOF HONOURTOTHOSE WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM CONFLICT1962-1972

 

Bronze plaque:

UNVEILED BYD. SINCLAIRR.S.L.STATE COUNCILLOR

Back:Bronze plaque:

WORLD WAR 111939-1945A TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVED

 

Lest we forget

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Orroroo Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Letters damaged, marble stained

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Names

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ASPINALL, Charles Alfred

Service number 74
Sergeant
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 30 Aug 1894

BALDWIN, Amos Austin

Service number 2296A
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Apr 1897

ABBOTT, William Townsend

Service number 805
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 Jan 1896

ROBERTSON, William Melville

Service number 2303
Lance Corporal
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 16 Oct 1892

PHILLIS, Horace Vincent

Service number 814
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 30 Aug 1888

SMITH, Matthew Kevin

Service number 44558
Private
5th Battalion
The Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR)
Australian Army (Post WW2)
Born 6 Sep 1942

MCKENZIE, John Gordon

Service number 151
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 17 Dec 1890

TWIGDEN, Cyril Roy

Service number 5862
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 25 Nov 1895

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