Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

American River Memorial - WW II (names) and Vietnam

AMERICAN RIVER 5221

MEMORIAL: Monument

LOCATION: Remembrance Reserve, Tangara Drive

ORIENTATION: West

DESCRIPTION: A memorial in the form of a cairn comprising a four-sided, tapered pedestal constructed of cement and local coloured stone, surmounted on a stone and tile base that in turn is set on a concrete slab. On the top of the pedestal is an egg-shaped stone set on tiles. On each face is a bronze plaque

INSCRIPTIONS:
Face:

THE AMERICAN RIVER
REMEMBRANCE RESERVE
CHERISHES THE MEMORY OF ALL
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
WHO SUFFERED OR LOST THEIR LIVES
IN ANY OF THIS WORLD'S
MANY CONFLICTS

Left:

THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED BY THE
AMERICAN RIVER
PROGRESS ASSOCIATION
AND THE
AMERICAN RIVER COMMUNITY
AND SPORTS ASSOCIATION
IN 1999

Back:

VIETNAM 1960 – 1973
IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN
AND ALL THOSE THAT SERVED

LEST WE FORGET

Right:

THIS PLAQUE IS DEDICATED TO
THOSE AMERICAN RIVER SERVICEMEN
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

SAMUEL MALCOLM BUICK
JACK OSBORNE THOMAS
JACK RYBERG SWANSON
JAMES ALEXANDER HERMAN

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

WHEN BUILT: 1999

MAINTAINED BY: American River Progress Association

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: Jocelyn Talmage, 09 Mar 04