Lower Southgate War Memorial

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Location Doust Park, Kelsalls Hill, Grafton - Lawrence Road, Southgate, Clarence Valley - New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The memorial, which has been erected on the bank of the river, immediately above the Lower Southgate public wharf, is of column design. It is protected by a galvanised-iron railing, supported by substantial pillars at the four corners, of an eight feet square enclosure laid with cement. In the centre, resting on a solid concrete foundation, rises a reinforced concrete basement in three divisions, three foot square at bottom and five feet six inches high.

In this are inserted five marble panels. On the basement worked in stone stands a round column with finely moulded base and cap surmounted with a gun shell on top. On front of the column in carved in high relief a rifle and sword (nearly full size), with flags and ornament intertwined. The memorial complete stands about thirteen feet high and was designed and erected by Messrs. Matheson and Collins, Grafton.
Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW), 16 April 1919.

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Built Messrs. Matheson and Collins, Grafton
Opened 12 April 1919 by Mrs. Doust
Inscription

Front Inscription
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The Great War 1914 - 1919.
Erected By The
Residents Of Lower Southgate, In Honor
Of Their Brave Lads Who Volunteered For
Active Service, And In Memory Of Those Who
Fell Fighting For Liberty And Justice.

Left Side Inscription
In Memoriam

W. H. Doust
R. Doust
E. R. Pullen
R. E. Lee
W. Wills
V. H. Hardaker.

"Their name liveth
For Evermore."

Right Side Inscription
Volunteers In World War (2)
1939 - 1945.

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Condition

Names

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COWLING, Harold John

Service number N425290
Sergeant
Born 28 Sep 1894

DOUST, Roy

Service number 3558
Private
54th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Feb 1893

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