St Peters Heroes War Memorial

Details

Location Corner of St Peters Street and First Avenue, St Peters (SA), Norwood Payneham St Peters - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A white marble memorial comprising a statue of a soldier standing at "Rest on Arms Reverse", left hand over right, rifle muzzle on left boot, surmounted on a capped split level pedestal and three-tier base. Five black granite plaques are affixed to the front pedestal cap, main pedestal and base plinths.

Main Pedestal
 
Left Side
Great War Bronze Plaque
Names A to K

Right Side
Great War Bronze Plaque
Names L to W

History

In 1919 a meeting of the women of St Peters resolved “– to erect a soldiers’ memorial in honour of the St Peters Heroes who fell in the Great War”. A committee was formed to raise funds for a memorial and to decide upon the form it should take. The St Peters Council reserved an area at the Town Hall end of St Peters Street.

The final design, by Adelaide architect and artist Edward Davies, consisted of a base of Angaston marble on top of which is a statue of an Australian ‘Digger’ with arms reversed, sculptured in Carrara marble in Italy and based on photographs taken at the Keswick Barracks of a typical Australian soldier.

The cost of the memorial was fully met by public subscriptions, with the unveiling and dedication by the then Governor, Sir Archibald Weigall KCMG on the12th February 1922.

On 24th April 2019, the Memorial was re-dedicated when the current Governor, The Honourable Hieu Van Le AC, unveiled two bronze plaques listing the names of 145 men from the district who died in the Great War.

On 11th November 2024 the Governor of South Australia Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, unveiled a bronze plaque listing the names of 89 men from the district who died in the Second World War.

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Built 1921 0pened Feb 1922
Opened 12 February 1922 by His Excellency the Governor by Sir Archibald Weigall K.C. K.C.M.G. Great War plaques unveiled on 24 April 2019 by The Hon Hieu Van Le AC Governor of South Australia.
Inscription

Pedestal cap:

LEST WE FORGET

Main pedestal:

IN MEMORY OF THE ST PETERS HEROES WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919

"THEIR REWARD ALSO IS WITH THE LORD AND THE CARE OF THEM IS WITH THE MOST
HIGH" WISDOM V. 15.

"HALT, STRANGER, ERE THOU PASSEST HERE,

AND GAZE ON THIS GREAT STONE, WELL WROUGHT

TO MARK THE DEATH OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT

FOR EMPIRE'S CAUSE-AYE, LINGER NEAR."

"TEN THOUSAND MILES FROM HERE THEIR BONES ARE LAID:

BUT YET THEIR SPIRITS LIVE WITH US AND SHINE;

THIS STONE RECORDS THEIR SACRIFICE DIVINE,

AND PROVES TO ALL, THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT FADE"


Upper base plinths:

Left:                        

WORLD WAR 11
1939 - 1945

KOREA
1950 - 1954

Right:

MALAYA
1948-1960
1964-1965
BORNEO
1962-1966
VIETNAM
1962-1973

Lower base plinth:
UNVEILED BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR SIR ARCHIBALD WEIGALL K.C.M.G.
FEBRUARY 12TH 1922.

Rear Side
Second World War Bronze Plaque

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters
PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

HAWKES, Owen Centennius

Service number 3716
Corporal
13th Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 26 Jan 1888

FROUD, Edward Thomas

Service number 590
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born May 1881

BURNSIDE, Robert David

Service number 2031
Gunner
14th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 17 Jul 1894

TIDSWELL, Clarence Tom Horatio

Service number 2803B
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Jun 1898

COOMBS, Kennion

Service number 2314
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 Aug 1896

AYLIFFE, George Bryant

Service number 1811
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Mar 1897

GRAY, Percy Clifford

Service number 4719
Signaller
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

LANYON, Cuthbert John

Service number 124
Lance Corporal
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Apr 1896

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