Robe War Memorial

Details

Location Smilie Street, Robe, South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
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.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Pedestal face: on the design of an unfurling scroll:ROBE MENWHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICEIN 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 SACRIFICEIN WORLD WAR 11 1939-1945.

 

Pedestal left:

OTHER ROBE MENWHOANSWERED THE CALL.

 

Pedestal right:

OTHER ROBE MENWHO ANSWERED THE CALL.

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Robe Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Several letters fading

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

BLAKE, Edward Thomas

Service number 228
Driver
14th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born May 1893

BROWNE, John Joseph

Service number 806A
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 2 Jun 1887

ADAMS, Thomas George

Service number SX1812
Private
2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 30 Apr 1919

OWEN, Frank Edgar

Service number 4193
Private
4th Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 1879

ENGELHART, Neil

Service number SX940...
Private
Born 5 Jun 1920

ANDERSON, Arthur Gordon

Service number 2335
Private
5th Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 6 Sep 1892

FOX, William Walter Atkinson

Service number S1481
Corporal
Lines of Communication Units
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 22 Feb 1889

ANDERSON, Charles

Service number 2459
Private
5th Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 5 Aug 1876

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