Parramatta Mental Hospital Roll of Honor

Details

Location Parramatta Female Factory Precinct, Asylum Administration Building, 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, Parramatta - New South Wales, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

The First World War Roll of Honor board is mounted high on the wall inside the front entrance of Parramatta Mental Hospital’s old administration office building. The building is now a historical site and is occupied by Sydney University.

The board is made of polished solid marble in three different colours with inlaid, engraved gold lettering on white marble. It measures 1.2m wide by 1.75m tall. Fifteen of forty-eight veterans listed on the board paid the supreme sacrifice and did not return home from the First World War. Six of forty-eight names listed can not be positively identified with a connection to the Mental Hospital on the National Archives Australia website, the A.I.F. project database of UNSW Canberra or on the Australian War Memorial database.

On each side of the board is a print from a painting by Will Longstaff. Both prints are 83cm wide and 61cm tall. On the left-hand side is 'The Immortal Shrine' and on the right-hand side, 'Menin Gate at Midnight'.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 28 April 1920 by Rev. Hilhouse Taylor
Inscription

MENTAL HOSPITAL
PARRAMATTA
1914 ROLL OF HONOR 1918
TO THOSE WHO HAVE ANSWERED
THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL

(Names)

+KILLED

ERECTED BY OFFICERS AND STAFF

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 2 people of interest from memorial

PARR, Urban

Service number 10531
Sapper
3rd Divisional Signal Company
AIF WW1
Born 5 Apr 1889

BAXTER, Thomas

Service number 3012
Sergeant
13th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

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