Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Woodville B1 St Margaret's Anglican Church Lych Gate

LOCATION: Corner of Port Road and Woodville Road, in front of the St Margaret's Anglican Church, the Church of Saint Margaret of Scotland.

DESCRIPTION: Lych Gate, inside the gate are four stainless steel plaques; at the lower front right is a white marble foundation stone. Originally, the plaques were made of brass but owing to deterioration over time they were replaced when the gate was totally restored. A Lych Gate is a covered gateway to a church in which a bier (a stand or litter for a body or coffin) is located while the initial part of the burial service is read. From the Middle English era language, Lyche:-body; Yate:-gate.

INSCRIPTIONS:
Plaque 1:
"PRO DEO ET PATRIA"
1914
JOHN F. BAGOT ARTHUR S. BLACKBURN. V.C. WALTER CROSSING. D.S.O.,D.S.C. EDWARD C. BARLOW HERBERT G. SPIRES LEON H.J. LAMBERT JOHN S. BLACKBURN ERNEST H. UNDERWOOD HARRY S.C. DALE LANCE STIDSTON COLIN ARCHER RALPH N. KELLY HARRY K. BLACKBURN GEORGE SPENCER REGINALD HOPKINS FRANK CATHRO FERGUS R. SAUNDERS ARTHUR H. SAUNDERS ROY W. SAUNDERS GEORGE ADAMS RICHARD H. TARDREW

1915
HERBERT O. HOPKINS CHARLES ST. C. HONEY CHARLES H. BATH O.B.E. WILLIAM A. HAY RICHARD D.B. BEATTON GEORGE R. CROSSING FREDERICK W.B. FULLER STANLEY R. JENKINS CLIFFORD O'HARA WALLINGTON S. STEER PERCY V. CLUTTERBUCK FRANK L. BAILEY FREEBAIRN L. SIMPSON HENRY G.L. SIMPSON CHARLES MITCHELL M.M.

Plaque 2:
"PRO DEO ET PATRIA"
1915
CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN CLIFFORD J. JOHNS HECTOR J. UNDERWOOD W. RUSSELL G. COLMAN M.C. PERCY SHAKLEFORD HERCULES O.H. THOMPSON STANLEY W. O'HARA W. ROY JENKINS HAROLD J. KELLY FRANK S. STIDSTON ERNEST A. GUYMER ARTHUR H. GUYMER CLARENCE C. MITCHELL ERNEST W.N. MARTIN EDWARD OFFLAND WILLIAM J.A. SMYHTE ALBERT E. CARTER RICHARD J. CARTER

1916
JOSEPH MITCHELL FREDERICK LEE LEONARD R. JOHNS JOHN C. Mc KAIL J. LESLIE BOND HERBERT A. THOMAS JOHN FLETCHER GEORGE P. MYHILL WILLIAM MACHIN H. BERT RODDA VINCENT L.S. MARTIN WALTER G. CLEMENTS WILFRED J. NADEBAUM ARNOLD B. HARVEY MURRAY W. WALKER FREDERICK W. WATSON ALAN T. STAPLEDON WILLIAM H. UNDERWOOD

Plaque 3:
"PRO DEO ET PATRIA"
1916
HERBERT H. JOHNS M.M. HARRY R. DODD SIDNEY G. WHAITE PERCY J. AIRD CLAUDE J. BROWN HAROLD WHAITE HOWARD A. BRAY ROBERT C.E. HILL ROY E. WALKER JOHN A. NADEBAUM CYRIL M. LUKEY GUS J. MIETHKE E.D. ALEX BAGOT ALEXANDER J. MANOEL HAROLD M. LINKLATER HUBERT M. GOWLING CHARLES W.B. ROOKE WILLIAM E. JERVOIS CHARLES B. BLACKBURN

1917
HOWARD A. GOERECKE DUDLEY D.G. HONEY A. DON TERRELL WILLIAM J. HERMAN PIERS A. COCKBURN DEVON PARKHOUSE GILMORE LINDNER HENRY Mc F. JERVOIS DAVID E.A. ANDERSON NEIL L. JAMIESON

1918
HAROLD L. BRISTOW ANDREW J.R. WOOD KEITH M.S. MARTIN GEORGE D. HARRIS

Plaque 4:
"REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EIS, DOMINE,
ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EIS"
1915
TOM A. WHYTE GEORGE DAVIS HERBERT H. DAVIS SPURGEON M. WATSON HALCOLMBE F. BROCK WILLIAM ADAMS RICHARD L ROADS OSCAR D. HOWARD GEORGE EVANS

Foundation stone:

IN MEMORY OF THE SONS OF
THIS PARISH WHO ENLISTED FOR
ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR.
GOVERNOR SIR HENRY LIONEL GALWAY
K.C.M.G.. D.S.O.
LAID THIS STONE
ON THE ELEVENTH DAY OF MAY. 1919
LEST WE FORGET.

WHEN BUILT: Dedicated 11 May 1919. Rededicated 11 May 2002

BUILT BY: Architect, Herbert Jory. Builder, A. J. Denman. Restored 2002

MAINTAINED BY: Anglican Church

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: 05 Sep 02, Beryl Howe 24 Apr 03.