Creswick War Memorial

Details

Location Raglan & Cambridge Streets, Creswick, Hepburn - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Grey granite obelisk with ball at top surrounded by granite pillars and steel fencing

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 7 September 1924
Inscription

Australia

"Lest We Forget."

This memorial is erected to perpetuate the memory of those Creswick soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the Great War
1914 - 1918.

"For God, King and Empire."

"They counted not their lives dear unto themselves."

Plaque:

This plaque honours our men and women who served in the wars of 1914 - 1918, 1939 - 1945 and in the Borneo, Malay, Korea and Vietnam campaigns.

" Only those deserve freedom who are prepared to defend it."

Left Side Inscription
[ Names ]

Back Inscription
Also those from the Shire who fell in the 1939 - 45 War

[ Names ]

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

CANNING, Francis Arnold

Service number 963
Private
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

HOGG, Tom Bell

Service number 2855
Gunner
2nd Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 1883

TOWNSEND, Edgar Reynold

Service number 2042
Private
6th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HARRIS, John

Service number 345
Lieutenant
24th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Nov 1891

STEWART, Alexander William

Service number VX12484
Private
Born 27 Feb 1916

LINDSAY, Reginald Graham

Service number 11867
Gunner
22nd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 1887

CLIFTON, Frederick Charles

Service number 780
Private
6th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

PARKES, William

Service number 3246
Second Lieutenant
Australian Flying Corps (AFC)
AIF WW1
Born 1893

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