Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

ROBE 5276

MEMORIAL: Monument

LOCATION: Smilie Street

ORIENTATION: North

DESCRIPTION: A white marble memorial comprising a statue of a soldier standing at ease supported behind the right leg with a tree stump, surmounted on a pedestal and three-tier sur-base and a two-tier granite base and concrete slab. All details are in black. On the top face of the pedestal is a white marble wreath.

INSCRIPTIONS:
Pedestal face: on the design of an unfurling scroll:

ROBE MEN
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR. 1914-1919.
"AND HOW CAN MAN DIE BETTER,
THAN FACING FEARFUL ODDS;
FOR THE ASHES OF HIS FATHERS,
AND THE TEMPLES OF HIS GODS."
MACAULAY
 

Sur-base top tier:

ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS OF ROBE AND DISTRICT 1921.

Sur-base second tier:

Bronze rising sun badge

Sur-base bottom tier: top edge:

AND THOSE WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN WORLD WAR 11 1939-1945.

Sur-base bottom tier: face:

Pedestal left:

OTHER ROBE MEN
WHO
ANSWERED THE CALL.

Pedestal right:

OTHER ROBE MEN
WHO
ANSWERED THE CALL.

MAINTAINED BY: Robe Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Several letters fading

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: 16 Jan 02