Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

 SummertownG

SUMMERTOWN 5141

MEMORIAL: Gates

LOCATION: Greenhill Road

ORIENTATION: Southeast

DESCRIPTION: Entrance to the Summertown cemetery, comprising two stone central pillars and two lower outer pillars, joined by a low stone and wrought iron wall. A white marble plaque surmounted by a Cross of Sacrifice is affixed to the face of each of the entrance pillars, a white marble plaque is affixed to the left wall next to the main pillar and a bronze plaque is affixed to the right wall next to the right pillar. A bronze Crusader's sword is affixed to the face of the outer pillars. UPDATE: The gates were restored in 2008.

INSCRIPTIONS:
Left pillar:

URAIDLA.

CAREY'S GULLY.

THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.

Right pillar:

SUMMERTOWN.

PICCADILLY.

WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE SUMMERTOWN
WOMEN'S COMFORT CLUB, BEREAVED PARENTS,
AND SYMPATHETIC FRIENDS, ERECT THESE
GATES AS A MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO
SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT
WAR FOR US, WE ARE GLAD TO DO
HOMAGE TO THOSE WHO HAVE PAID THE
GREATEST PRICE FOR OUR LIBERTY.

Right wall:

Logo of Australia Remembers 1945-1995
THIS PLAQUE IS A MEMORIAL TO THE
MEN & WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA WHO PAID
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE DURING WORLD WAR 11

LEST WE FORGET

UNVEILED BY
THE HON. ALEXANDER DOWNER
SUNDAY, 26 NOVEMBER, 1995

MAINTAINED BY: Local community

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Plaques on the main pillars are stained

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: 09 August 2002. UPDATE: Photograph 22 June 2008, Darryl Golding.