Warwick Dungaree March Re-Enactment Plaque

Details

Location Leslie Park, Palmerin & Fitzroy Streets, Warwick, Southern Downs - Queensland, Australia
Type plaque
Description

Sandstone block with bronze plaque

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 13 April 1998 by The Hon. Bruce Scott MP Minister for Veterans` Affairs Cr Bruce Green Mayor
Inscription

The Dungarees March Re-enactment
April, 1998
Warwick to Brisbane

This plaque was unveiled on 13th April, 1998 to commemorate the men who marched from Warwick to Brisbane in 1915 to enlist in the 1st A.I.F. for service abroad in the Defence of Freedom in the Great War of 1914 - 18 and in particular those who gave their lives. The 28 men listed below marched out of Warwick on 16th November, 1915 and when they reached Brisbane on 30th November, 1915 a distance of 170 miles, their numbers had grown to 125.

[ Names ]

Lest We Forget

The Hon. Bruce Scott MP Minister for Veterans` Affairs
Cr Bruce Green Mayor

Condition

Good

Names

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ANSTEY, Henry

Service number 2306
Private
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1893

PIERPOINT, Henry Wynn

Service number 2322
Sergeant
11th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 19 Oct 1895

HAMLYN, Ernest Albert

Service number 4148
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 Jun 1893

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