Glebe War Memorial

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Location Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The monument is in the form of a cenotaph shrine covering an area of 22ft by 19ft and rising to a height of 35ft above the footway. At the two front corners of the base, the steps of which are of blue freestone, are blocks of axed, polished, and chased red granite supporting ornamental standard electric lamps. Between these there is a rostrum with granite base and also a moulded and polished trachyte cap forming a desk and a fountain basin wrought out of solid granite. On two sides, pedestals of trachyte support four columns of white marble. These pillars are canopied in finely chiselled and moulded white marble one supporting the bust of a soldier and the other of a sailor. The shrine in the centre contains the names of 157 men who were killed. The honorary designer and architect was Mr. W. Martin who also personally supervised the erection.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), 26 April 1922.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 3 June 1921 by The Governor-General, Lord Forster
Inscription

Erected By Glebe Residents
In Memory Of The Glorious Dead

1914 - 1919

This Memorial Stone
Was Set By
His Excellency The Governor General
The Right Honorable Lord Forster P.C. G.C.M.G.
June 3rd 1921

Inside the Shrine :

Their Name Liveth For Evermore

[ Names ]

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

HELLYER, Oliver

Service number 1185
Private
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

COTTER, Albert

Service number 924
Trooper
12th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 3 Dec 1884

MCKINNIREY, Michael Joseph Mansfield

Service number 479
Private
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1886

SHEA, James

Service number 3371
Private
Born 25 Sep 1887

LEFFLER, Hugh Alphonsus

Service number 61
Private
9th Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born Sep 1893

HOGUE, Oliver

Service number 447
Major
14th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 29 Apr 1880

JOHNSTONE, Kenneth

Service number 2161
Corporal
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

OSWIN, Albert Edward

Service number 557
Sergeant
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 31 Oct 1887

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