Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Streaky Bay M

STREAKY BAY 5680

MEMORIAL: Monument

LOCATION: Corner of Flinders Highway and Montgomerie Terrace

ORIENTATION: North East

DESCRIPTION: A statue of a soldier standing at "Arms Reversed" left hand over right, muzzle of the rifle on the left boot, supported behind the left leg with a tree trunk surmounted on a rough-cut granite capped pedestal and two-tier sur-base and a two-tier concrete base and slab. Large brass plaques surround the centre of the pedestal. At the base of the lower tier of the sur-base face are angled metal pipes to support flagstaffs

INSCRIPTIONS:
Face:

STREAKY BAY AND DISTRICT
IN HONOUR AND MEMORY OF THE MEN
WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 Stylised effigy of the Australian Imperial Forces 1919
insignia surmounting a wreath
"PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, AND STAND"
OBIERUNT PRO REGE ET PATRIA.

Left:

Back:

TO COMMEMORATE THOSE
WHO SERVED IN
THE FOLLOWING WARS

Right:

WILLIAMS.J.G.

MAINTAINED BY: Streaky Bay Council and RSL

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: 11 Dec 01