Difference between revisions of "WA State War Memorial"

Monument Details
Name	Western Australian State War Memorial
Location	King's Park, Perth, Western Australia
Dedication Date	24 Nov 1929
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Latest revision as of 13:42, 11 December 2023

History

Setting

Situated at the top of Kings Park and the Botanic Garden escarpment, the War Memorial overlooks the city of Perth with views of the Swan and Canning Rivers and the Darling Ranges.

Description

The area comprises of five main elements: the Cenotaph, Court of Contemplation, Flame of Remembrance, Pool of Reflection and ANZAC Bluff Commemorative Plaque. The Cenotaph is an 18 metre granite obelisk honours all Western Australians who gave their lives in the service of their country. The heavy concrete foundations are supplemented by heavy brick walls which enclose an inner crypt. The internal walls of the undercroft list the names of more than 7,000 members of the services killed in action or who died of wounds or illness in Wold War 1. The memorial is almost a replica of the Australian Imperial Force Memorials erected in France and Belgium.

Monument Details

The heavy concrete foundations are supplemented by heavy brick walls which enclose an inner chamber or crypt. The walls surrounding the crypt are covered with The Roll of Honour; marble tablets which list under their units the names of more than 7,000 members of the services killed in action or as a result of World War One.

Bronze plaques on the outside wall of the crypt entrance list under Navy, Army, Airforce, Women’s Services and Merchant Navy, nearly 4000 Western Australians killed or who died from effects of World War Two.

Inside the crypt on a marble tablet are the names of Western Australians killed in Korea (1950-1953), Malaya (1950-1960), Borneo (1962-1966) and Vietnam (1962-1973). Iraq and Afghanistan??

Men from the Armadale-Kelmscott local authority

World War 1 1914-1918

Names on this Monument are listed by Unit, and then alphabetically

4th Battalion

† Sydney Clarence Owen Matthews

11th Battalion

12th Battalion

† Stanley Joseph Callow Champion

16th Battalion

28th Battalion

32nd Battalion

† Bertie Greenfield
† William Archer Waller

33rd Battalion

† Thomas Hesketh

44th Battalion

46th Battalion

† George Mouatt Dow
† Arthur Werndly

48th Battalion

† Albert Thomas Ticklie MM

51st Battalion

4th Field Engineers

† Frederick Douglas Atlee Bowra

World War 2 1939-45

Names are listed by Service and alphabetically

Navy

Army

RAAF

@@ Line 65: / Line 65: @@
 * † [[Thomas Flavin]]
 * † [[John Wesley Gladstone Turner]]
+* † [[James Winning]]
 ===12th Battalion===
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 * † [[Frederick Thornton Lindley]]
 * † [[Charles William Price]]
+* † [[Albert Edward John Walls]]
 ===32nd Battalion===
 * † [[Bertie Greenfield]]
+* † [[William Archer Waller]]
 ===33rd Battalion===
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 * † [[Robert Melville Salter]]
 * † [[Ernest William Serls]]
+* † [[Charles Alexander Wann]]
 ===46th Battalion===
 * † [[George Mouatt Dow]]
+* † [[Arthur Werndly]]
 ===48th Battalion===
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 * † [[Charles William Price]]
 * † [[Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor]]
+* † [[Samuel James Verrier]]
+* † [[John Whittaker]]
 ===4th Field Engineers===
 * † [[Frederick Douglas Atlee Bowra]]
+===World War 2 1939-45===
+Names are listed by Service and alphabetically
+===Navy===
+* † [[Eric Gordon (Ricky) Devereux]]
+* † [[Peter Hill]]
+* † [[Thomas Charles Johnson]]
+* † [[Patrick John Kelly]]
+===Army===
-* † [[Samuel James Verrier]]
-W
-* † [[William Archer Waller]]
-* † [[Albert Edward John Walls]]
-* † [[Charles Alexander Wann]]
-* † [[Arthur Werndly]]
-* † [[John Whittaker]]
-* † [[James Winning]]
-===World War 2 1939-45===
-A
-* † [[Arthur Matthew Aitken]]
-B
 * † [[George Brushmeyer]]
-* † [[Raymond Edward Norton Butcher]]
-C
 * † [[Stanley Gordon Curtis]]
-D
-* † [[Eric Gordon (Ricky) Devereux]]
-E
-* † [[Thomas Douglas (Dougie) Ellis]]
-H
-* † [[Alan Wesley Hain]]
 * † [[Robert Hassett]]
-* † [[Michael Courthope Haynes]]
-* † [[Claude Dominic Hemy]]
-* † [[Peter Hill]]
 * † [[Edgar Joseph Howard]]
-J
-* † [[Thomas Charles Johnson]]
-K
-* † [[Patrick John Kelly]]
 * † [[Kenneth Myers Kroenert]]
-L
 * † [[Edward Johnathon (Ted) Leadbitter]]
 * † [[Victor Charles Lowe]]
-M
 * † [[John Hector Russell MacDonald]]
 * † [[Francis James Marchant]]
-* † [[Maxwell Wellman Marsh]]
 * † [[Andrew McKenzie]]
 * † [[Wallace Nelson McLauchlan]]
-* † [[Vernon Harold Minchin]]
-* † [[Frank Keith Morcombe DFC]]
-* † [[William James (Jim) Morcombe]]
-N
 * † [[William Percival Nairn]]
 * † [[John Gordon Nicholson]]
 * † [[Jack North]]
-O
-* † [[Ernest Ronald William Oliver]]
-* † [[Greer Winton Ottaway]]
-P
 * † [[Angelo Andrew Pagoda]]
 * † [[Douglas Windsor Parkin]]
 * † [[Mervyn Roy Parkin]]
-* † [[Leslie John (Jock) Powell DFC]]
-R
 * † [[Herbert Michael (Bert) Rubery]]
-S
-* † [[Herman Fred Sass]]
 * † [[David John Sexty]]
 * † [[Bernard Sydney Smailes]]
 * † [[Eric Stanley Southern]]
 * † [[Robert Summerfield]]
-T
 * † [[James Pryor Thatcher]]
-U
 * † [[Yure Unkovich]]
-W
-* † [[Roy Thomas Aston Wallis]]
 * † [[Edward Watling]]
 * † [[David Robert Gerald Watts]]
 * † [[Fred Whitaker]]
+===RAAF===
+* † [[Arthur Matthew Aitken]]
+* † [[Raymond Edward Norton Butcher]]
+* † [[Thomas Douglas (Dougie) Ellis]]
+* † [[Alan Wesley Hain]]
+* † [[Michael Courthope Haynes]]
+* † [[Claude Dominic Hemy]]
+* † [[Maxwell Wellman Marsh]]
+* † [[Vernon Harold Minchin]]
+* † [[Frank Keith Morcombe DFC]]
+* † [[William James (Jim) Morcombe]]
+* † [[Ernest Ronald William Oliver]]
+* † [[Greer Winton Ottaway]]
+* † [[Leslie John (Jock) Powell DFC]]
+* † [[Herman Fred Sass]]
+* † [[Roy Thomas Aston Wallis]]
 [[Category:Monuments and memorials]]