Port Wakefield Memorial Arch

Details

Location Drake Crescent, Port Wakefield, Wakefield - South Australia, Australia
Type arch
Description

An arch forming an entrance to the Port Wakefield sporting oval. Four white cement columns supporting an arch. Between the two outer columns are wrought iron gates. On top of the arch at each end are WW1 machine guns. At the top of each centre column is a bronze plaque, below these are white marble plaques listing WW1 servicemen, all details in black.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Arch face:

MEMORIAL ARCH

Arch rear:

1914-1919

Left column:Bronze plaque:

Insignia of R.A.N.     Insignia of A.I.F.     Insignia of R.A.A.F.IN MEMORY OF THESERVICEMEN AND WOMENWHO SERVED1939-1945LEST WE FORGET

Marble plaque:

PORT WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICTROLL OF HONOR.1914-1919.

 

Right column:Bronze plaque:

Insignia of R.A.N.     Insignia of A.I.F.     Insignia of R.A.A.F.IN MEMORY OF THE SERVICEMEN AND WOMENWHO SERVED IN KOREA,MALAYA, VIETNAM AND GULF WARLEST WE FORGET

Marble plaque:

PORT WAKEFIELD AND DISTRICTROLL OF HONOR.1914-1919.

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Port Wakefield council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

View Tributes of Honour Description

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

NELSON, Frederick Vincent

Service number 1883
Private
3rd Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Jul 1894

WINTER, Donovan

Service number 964
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Jul 1898

COE, John William

Service number 1142
Corporal
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Oct 1894

ROENNFELDT, Eric Lenox Charles

Service number S76963
Private
Volunteer Defence Corps (SA)
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 5 May 1895

HANCKEL, Arthur Edmund

Service number 17412
Private
11th Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born May 1892

SMITH, Norman Robert

Service number 5070
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 28 Aug 1891

LUCAS, Bertie Oscar

Service number 1694
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 23 Jul 1888

TAPLEY, Morford James

Service number 1497
Private
Railway Unit (AIF)
AIF WW1
Born 13 Aug 1890

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