Terowie War Memorial

Details

Location T section of Main Street and Besanko Road., Terowie, Goyder - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A marble statue of a WW1 soldier standing at ease surmounted on a square cut limestone and granite capped pedestal and a four-tier granite base and concrete slab. All details are in gold leaf. The monument is on a triangular shaped island enclosed within a with a rail and wire mesh fence; a trench mortar is behind the monument

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face: Pedestal:

TO THE MEMORY OFTHOSE MEN FROM THETEROWIE DISTRICTCOUNCIL AREAWHO MADE THESUPREME SACRIFICEIN THE GREAT WAR1914-19181939-1945

Brass plaque fourth tier

IN MEMORY OFTHOSE WHO SERVED AND DIEDKOREA Australian Commonwealth VIETNAM1950-1952 Military Forces insignia 1962-1972LEST WE FORGET

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Terowie community

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Bayonet broken off, replaced by a wooden replica. Letters fading.

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Names

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O'REILLY, Terence

Service number 3296
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 15 Apr 1883

O'REILLY, Myles

Service number 2090
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

BROOK, Hugh Frank

Service number SX5709
Corporal
2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 16 Jan 1914

PURDEY, Francis Roy

Service number 1728
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 9 Jan 1895

WOOD, Clarence

Service number 3012B
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 18 Dec 1890

ALLEN, Leslie Murlis

Service number 3227
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 15 Aug 1892

PATERSON, Leonard

Service number 22213
Driver
23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 30 Mar 1894

DAVEY, Allan Isaac

Service number 9
Second Lieutenant
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 Oct 1894

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