Wolseley War Memorial

Details

Location Corner of Tatiara Highway and Tatiara Parade., Wolseley, Tatiara - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A white marble memorial comprising a statue of a soldier standing at "Rest on Arms Reversed", left hand over right, rifle muzzle on left boot, surmounted on a capped three-tier red granite pedestal and granite block and a three-tier concrete base and slab.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face:
Pedestal
Cap:

THE GREAT WAR 1914- 1918

Upper tier:

IN MEMORIUM

 

Lower tier:

"LEST WE FORGET"

 

Lower tier:

ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS OF WOLSELEY AND DISTRICTSIN HONOR OF THE BRAVE WHO TOOK PARTIN THE GREAT WAR.

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Local community

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Rifle missing, broken immediately from beneath the hands
and above the rifle muzzle. Statue requires cleaning.

View Tributes of Honour Description

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

JONES, George Reginald

Service number 5997
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

HARRISON, Charles Henry

Service number 4484
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

PREECE, George

Service number 3457
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 Oct 1892

DAENKE, Horace Edward

Service number 2063
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Feb 1892

MUDIE, David James

Service number 3016
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 20 Feb 1888

WARMAN, Ernest William Tapsel

Service number 6342
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 15 Feb 1892

FOSTER, Albert Ernest

Service number 2076
Lance Corporal
40th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 6 Jun 1895

RICHES, William

Service number 2433
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Jun 1877

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