Roma Cenotaph

Details

Location Memorial Park, Bungil Street, Roma, Maranoa - Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The monument comprises a cenotaph sitting on a slightly larger base, both of rock faced pale grey granite. The cenotaph has three leaded marble plaques which are recessed into the granite. The front face (facing Bungil Street) bears Laurence Binyon`s ode "For the Fallen " with a bronze AIF badge above. The rear plaque bears the 93 names of the fallen with a bronze laurel wreath above. A plaque has been added to the eastern side to commemorate the 39 local men who fell in World War Two.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 25 April 1938 by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Donald Cameron, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D.
Inscription

In Memory Of All The Men
Enlisted From This District
Who Were Found Faithful
Unto Death In The Great War 1914 - 1918

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old
Age shall nopt weary them nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

"Lest We Forget"

Back Inscription
[ Names ]
Right Side Inscription
In Memory Of The Men
Enlisted From This District
Who Paid The Supreme
Sacrifice In The
2nd Great War 1939 - 1945

[ Names ]

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

SAUNDERS, Norman Harry

Service number 294
Corporal
31st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

HASTED, James Joseph

Service number QX17867
Corporal
Born 29 Dec 1907

WEHL, Frederick George

Service number 16680
Gunner
2nd/10th Field Regiment
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 27 Feb 1906

BEITZ, William Frederick

Service number 379
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 2 Jan 1897

BROWNE, Philip Gerald

Service number 3270A
Sergeant
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 8 Jun 1895

DE VERE, Spencer

Service number 3352
Private
4th Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

TARDENT, Oswald Urbin

Service number 40
Sergeant
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Mar 1894

ENSOR, Ernest Edwin

Service number 155
Trooper
5th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 6 Aug 1891

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