Elliston War Memorial

Details

Location Corner Beach Terrace and Little Bay Road, Elliston, South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A polished grey granite memorial comprising an obelisk surmounted on a capped pedestal and two-tier base that in turn is mounted on a rough-cut granite sur-base and concrete base and slab.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face, pedestal cap:

THEGREAT WAR1914-1918

 

Top tier:

THE ABOVE HAVE MADE THESUPREME SACRIFICELEST WE FORGET

 

Lower tier:

ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS OF ELLISTONAND DISTRICT IN HONOR AND MEMORY OFTHOSE WHO TOOK PART IN THE GREAT WAR

Left:Pedestal cap:

THEGREAT WAR1914-1918

 

H.W.LITTLE. MEDAL D'HONNEUR

Top tier:

THE SECOND WAR1939-1945THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

 

Lower tier:

 

THE SECOND WAR 1939-1945THOSE WHO SERVED

 

Back:Pedestal cap:

 

THEGREAT WAR1914-1918

 

Top tier:

THE SECOND WAR1939-1945SERVICEWOMEN

 

Right:Pedestal cap:

THEGREAT WAR1914-1918

 

Top tier:

SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945THOSE WHO SERVED

 

 

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Elliston Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Deterioration of base of the black granite is due to rising salt damp. According to Elliston council, this problem is due to mismanagement of filling in the old swamp area. Most of the buildings in the town being similarly affected. Council is currently trying to solve the problem.
Initials to each name on the southern face are in a type of Old English script.

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

CARLYLE, Hugh

Service number 43941
Private
Born 10 Dec 1948

BEECKEN, Herman Ernest

Service number 6345
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 9 Apr 1884

BARNS, Frank Launsley

Service number 3473
Trooper
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 28 Aug 1891

LITTLE, Edgar

Service number 3867
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Oct 1891

FREER, Richard Roy

Service number 2151
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 29 Sep 1895

AGARS, Robert Inkster

Service number SX9480
Private
Born 5 Mar 1917

WASHINGTON, Charles

Service number 3002
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 18 May 1890

PHILLIPS, Arthur Frederick

Service number 2385
Private
30th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Aug 1892

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