ANZAC Memorial Park (Byford)

ANZAC Memorial Park

ANZAC Memorial Park
Some of the names of soldiers on the ANZAC Memorial Park wall
Monument Details
Name	ANZAC Memorial Park
Location	ANZAC Crescent, The Glades, Byford, 6122
Dedication Date	18th April, 2015

ANZAC Memorial Park commemorates those from the current Serpentine - Jarrahdale district who served in World Wars I and II.

History

ANZAC Memorial Park was established as part of The Glades residential development to commemorate men from the local area who served during wartime. The Serpentine-Jarrahdale RSL received grants from SITA and the National "Saluting Their Service " Program.

Setting

The park includes a life-size bronze sculpture of a Light Horse soldier and horse, as well as low curved walls inscribed with the names of 321 soldiers from both World War I and World War II.

Monument Details

Front Inscription

ANZAC Memorial Park
This memorial was unveiled on the 18th April 2015 by the Western Australian State President of the Returned & Service League of Australia the Hon Graham Edwards, AM
We remember with thanksgiving those who made the supreme sacrifice for us in time of war
May the offering of lives have not been in vain.
Today we dedicate ourselves to the cause of justice, freedom and peace ; and for the wisdom and strength to build a better world.
Lest we forget

The names of those who served during both World War I and World War II are included, superimposed over bricks on a retaining wall, in no particular order.

Names from left to right

• Rupert Gregg
• Joseph Scott
• Frederick Ernest Capstick
• Hobart Turner
• Watkins MRF - WW2
• Douglas John Elliott - WW2
• Ronald Hamilton Cornish - WW2 Listed as Cornish R
• Robinson L not yet matched to records
• Knox William Henry]] Navy WW2
• Sylvanus Benjamin Buckland
• Donald Gordon Melville Huggins
• Thomas William Kerry
• Boyle G - WW2
• Castle A - WW2
• Francis Malarkey - WW2 Listed as Malarky F
• Walter Alfred King
• Herbert Bunney - WW2
• Lennart Birger Wilander
• John Humphrey Coyle
• Jack David Bunney - WW2
• Rev.Pierre Wolfe Daimpre
• Samuel Arthur Vincent
• Herbert George Lewis
• Foster SG - WW2
• Frederick James Howard
• Thomas William Moore
• William Edwin Cousens MM
• Patrick (John) Curo - served during WW1 & 2
• James Winning Cunningham WW2 Listed as Cunningham J
• Michael Dennis O'Rourke
• Edward Joseph King
• Craddon S - WW2
• James Pryor Thatcher - WW2 Listed as Thatcher J
• James Arnold
• John Blair - WW2
• John Hall
• Unwin H - WW2
• Free AD - WW2
• Kelly J not yet matched to records
• Maurice James Ronan
• Alexander Barnett
• Henderson JM not yet matched to records
• Albert Victor Berry
• Ronald Daniel Wallace
• Walter Cattach
• Thomas Denteith
• Galvin A not yet matched to records
• Mitchell not yet matched to records. Duplicate for either A (WW2) or AJ Mitchell (ww1)?
• William John Martin (1893)
• Whitehouse V - WW2
• Ernest (Roy) William Sladden
• Gordon Bishop
• Patrick Francis Brennan
• Bevis AJ - WW2
• Charles Frederick McKay
• Thomas Malarkey - WW2 Listed as Malarky T
• William Percival Nairn WWI and WWII
• Smith SC - WW2
• Brian Bevis - WW2
• Buckland BN - WW2
• Alfred Ernest Andrews
• Ernest Alfred (Jack) Lewis
• Percy Fleming
• McFarlane CA - WW2
• Charles Rudolff Dumps
• James Percy Ray
• Charles Bird
• George Albert Alford
• John Feast
• John Wilfred Gargett
• Francis David Wills - WW2
• George Wistlecraft
• Robert Sang Herd
• Angus Dearden
• Victor Emanuel Durling
• Frank Ernest Cousens
• Claude Algernon Wright
• Richardson R not yet matched to records
• Gordin GL - WW2
• David Andrew Allison
• Hobart Douglas Firns MID
• Alfred James Hansen MM
• Frederick John Chester
• Walker GM - WW2
• Gibson D - WW2
• Richard Barrett - WW2 Listed as Barrat R
• Thomas Kinsman Bickell
• Frank Halliday
• Coyle R not yet matched to records
• Arthur Thomas Feast
• Stephen Hubert Christian (Hughie) Wallace
• Lightbody RM - WW2
• Whitehouse C - WW2
• Herbert Dunbar Cousens
• Thomas Henry Rice
• William Barge
• Albert Edgar Chuck
• Stracham J not yet matched to records - no one by this name enlisted in either WW1 or WW2
• Reginald Peter Lewis
• Smith GE - WW2
• Claude Raymond Anderson - WW2 Listed as Anderson C
• Francis James Marchant - WW2 Listed as Marchant F
• Hooten W - WW2
• James Barber
• William Edgar Rowe
• William Edward McKenna
• Wilfred Norman Robinson
• Gustaf Adolf Olson
• Ryhmer E not yet matched to records
• John Raymond Little - WW2
• James Edward Richardson
• Herbert Lewis Battams
• Victor Henry Mead - WW2 - Listed as Mead V
• George Scrivener
• Aleck (Alex) Charles Gale
• Frederick William Vernon King
• Thomas Percival (Percy) Hanretty
• Ernest Stanley Lawrence - WW2
• Ernest Charles Thomas
• Hallidon (Ernest) McAliece
• John Edwin Ffoulkes DCM
• Eric John Peverett - WW2
• Walter Stanley Fisher
• Bernard William Chatfield
• James Percy Ray - WW2 Listed as Ray JW
• Tom Henry Whitehouse - WW2
• Ernest Selkirk MID
• William Isaac Little
• Alfred George McDermott
• Leslie Huon Truman
• Nail S - WW2
• Alexander Dowle (Listed as Dowell A)
• Cunningham T not yet matched to records
• Roy Thomas Aston Wallis - WW2 Listed as Wallis R
• Lawson MR not yet matched to records
• Edward (Ned) Gray
• Stan John Barrett - WW2 Listed as Barratt SJ
• Frederick Selkirk
• Arthur Swindlehurst MM
• Robert Lightbody
• James Lawrence McKenna
• Cyril Augustest Tonkin
• William Moffat McLachlan MM
• Charles Henry Partridge
• William George Russell
• Lewis Hinsley - WW2
• Day MW - WW2
• Egbert Robert Trethowan Reeves
• William Edward Reed
• Lingthorpe E not yet matched to records
• Frederick Sidney Gladstone
• Wills HF - WW2
• Herbert Andrew Thomas Alexander listed as Alexander
• John Donaldson Patterson
• Patrick O'Flaherty (Listed as Flaherty P)
• William Renfrey Thomas
• Rhymer R not yet matched to records
• James Strachan
• Patrick Joseph O'Brien
• Herbert Michael (Bert) Rubery - WW2
• Gibson W not yet matched to records
• Roy Walden King
• Wallace H not yet matched to records
• Herbert Clarence (Bert) Ronan
• Curo PJ - (Duplicate entry)
• William Carroll
• Reed I - WW2
• Edward Johnathon (Ted) Leadbitter - WW2
• Samuel Mellington Moore
• Herbert Ernest Baldwin
• Walter Vivian Ernest Peters - WW2 Listed as Peters WV
• Patrick O'Connell McKenna
• James Edward Laugher
• Joseph Reginald Jones
• Arthur Samuel William Alldridge - WW2 Listed as Alldridge AS
• William Hall
• Feast AL - WW2
• George Badham Milton
• Douglas George Edgar Alexander - WW2 Listed as Alexander D
• Buckland HD - WW2
• Frank Thomas Firns
• William John Howe
• William Francis James Elliott - WW2 Listed as Elliott WF
• Eric Anderson - WW2
• James Butler Boyd - WW2 - Listed as Boyd J
• Edward (Ted) Harry Darby (Listed as Darby T)
• York RD - WW2
• Donald Victor Chisholm
• Leo Patrick Kane
• Peverett W - WW2
• Hubert Lennox Richardson (Listed as Richardson L)
• John Francis Craghill - WW2
• John James Thorpe
• Arthur Lewis
• Donald Walter Cumming - WW2
• Day DA - WW2
• Coyle C - WW2
• Albert George Lawrence - WW2
• John Charles Hutchinson
• William Robert Rigby
• Allan Leslie Thomas
• John Buckland
• Roy Kershaw - WW2
• James Kirk (Listed as Kirke J)
• Bishop HJ - WW2
• John Thomas Clements
• Osborne Fisher (Listed as Fisher S)
• Robert Summerfield - WW2 (Listed as Sommerfield R)
• Marvin Redvers Cuthbert Barge (Listed as Barge M) - WW2
• Francis Thomas Briggs - WW2
• Albert Edward See
• Cyprian T - WW2
• Gossage G - WW2
• Gordon Weston Johanson (Listed as Johansen J)
• George Weston Firns
• Edward Patrick Thomas O'Brien
• Angus Lindt
• Frederick George Golding
• Herbert Frank O'Neill
• George Henry Martin MM MID
• Francis Leonard Martin
• Bertie Alfred Holmes - WW2
• Gerrie Anderson
• Robert Rueben Rodgers
• Charles Henry Dohnt (Listed as Dohnt H)
• Nettleton TF - WW2
• William Savage
• Sleith D - WW2
• Clarence Otto Sladden
• John Alexander Adamson (Listed as Adamson A)
• Craghill EH - WW2
• John Harold Coffen
• Edward Henry Hanrahan
• Willis J not yet matched to records
• Aubrey Turner
• Joseph Clough
• Ernest John Peters - WW2
• Lyndon Vivian Brady
• Mark D'Esterre Brady
• William Alfred Gallant MBE also served in WW2
• Martin Abolin
• Cole J not yet matched to records
• Ronald Hamilton Cornish - WW2
• Frederick Lawrence Listed as Lawrence FC - WW2
• Dougall WD - WW2 (Listed as Dougall F)
• Alfred George Allanson
• John Edmond Rhodes
• Jack North - WW2
• Alfred John Mitchell
• Alfred Cecil Clarence Curtis
• James Kershaw
• Arthur Mitchell - WW2
• George Andrew King
• William Thomas Wills - WW2
• Frederick Oliver Pierce
• McNaughton WR - WW2
• Luke Siford
• Kitching MT - WW2 (Listed as Kitching T)
• Gale WH not yet matched to records
• William Paul (Layton) Walton (Listed as Walton L)
• Gregory B - WW2
• Thomas Buckland
• Coyle F not yet matched to records
• Ian Dacre Richardson
• Bevis AL - WW2
• † Alfred Charles Newman
• Herbert Wright Aldred (Listed as Aldred HA)
• Leslie Charles Hutchinson (Listed as Hutchinson C)
• John Lewis Foster - WW2
• Edward James (Jim) Lawrence - WW2
• John Terrence O'Neil
• Barratt ND - WW2
• Arthur Clarke
• Martin Nicholas Cousens
• Samuel Edward Tate (Listed as Tattie S)
• Harold Watts (Listed as Watts T)
• Albert Edgar Bishop
• Andrew Walker Cunningham - WW2 Listed as Cunningham A
• Reuben Arnold MM
• John James Gill
• Len Malarkey - WW2 Listed as Malarky L
• Ernest Henry Chisholm
• William Charles Woodland
• Feast W - WW2
• William Moore Crellin (Listed as Crillin W)
• Benjamin Arthur McEvoy
• Dodds FTK - WW2
• Thomas Bird
• Lennart Birger Wilander Listed as Woolandra L
• Cummings H - (Duplicate for Cumming H ?)
• Cyril Arthur Woodland
• Harrison P not yet matched to records
• Frank Grundy
• Rupert Arthur Kent Goodchild (Listed as Kent A)
• Aubrey Walter (Swazz) Mead (Listed as Mead W)
• Herbert (Bert) Cumming
• Arthur Lloyd Brockwell - WW2
• Reuben Leeuwin Cousens Listed as Cousens R
• Frederick James Bishop
• Craddon JH - WW2
• Stanley Charles Gregory - WW2 - Listed as Gregory S
• Howell EG - WW2
• Thomas Joseph Sheehan
• Henry Seddon
• Wilfred John Alldridge - WW2
• Leslie Charles Peters - WW2
• William Thomas Wills - WW2
• Patrick Michael
• William Francis Clements
• Cumming A - WW2
• Cyril Arthur Holmes - WW2
• Sidney Herrick Carter
• French P - WW2
• Martin W - WW2
• John Henry Hart
• William Henry Baldwin
• Jolly JE - WW2
• Gregory E - WW2
• Granfell P not yet matched to records