The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

Ballarat POW Memorial
Ballarat POW Memorial centre piece
Walls with names engraved
Monument Details
Name	Ballarat Ex-POW Memorial
Location	Botanical Gardens, Ballarat, Victoria
Dedication Date	6 Feb 2004

History

The Memorial symbolizes that all Australian prisoners embarked to serve away from their homeland and acknowledges the hardship, deprivation, brutality, starvation and disease endured by Prisoners of War during their capture and the scars many continued to endure upon their repatriation to Australia.

Setting

Set in the magnificent Botanical Gardens the Memorial is a place of quiet reflection and a place to remember loved ones and to mourn those 8,600 Prisoners of War who died in captivity and remain buried on foreign shores.

Description

Wall with names engraved, split mid point by six erect stones adorned with the name of country or area of conflict where POWs were taken prisoner. Names are displayed alphabetical by conflict.

Monument Details

† Died while a Prisoner of War

World War I 1914 - 1918

1916

• †Stephen Henry Horrocks 29 Jul 1916 Pozières
• †William John Howe 29 Jul 1916 Pozières
• †Luke Siford 29 Jul 1916 Pozières
• Arnold Thorp 29 Jul 1916 Pozières
• †Herbert George Lewis 14/16 Aug 1916 Mouquet Farm
• Francis Henry Ryniker 3 Sep 1916 Mouquet farm
• William Charles Woodland 3 Sep 1916 Mouquet farm
• Edward Armstrong 16 Nov 1916 The Maze
• Stuart Alan Webb 16 Nov 1916 The Maze

1917

• John Blake 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• William Francis Cohn 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• Gordon Vidgen Cross 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• Claude Robert Marsh 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• Frederick Rawlinson 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• Egbert Robert Trethowan Reeves 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• John Edmond Rhodes 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• Hartland Wheare Richards 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• †Joseph Scott 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• John Francis Ullyott 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• Aubrey Jesse Whittington MM 11 Apr 1917 1st Bullecourt
• Donald Victor Chisholm 15 Apr 1917 Lagnicourt
• John Macarthur Livingston 15 Apr 1917 Lagnicourt
• Melbourne Hubert Randolph Matthews 15 Apr 1917 Lagnicourt
• John William King 12 Oct 1917 Passchendaele

1918

• Victor Leo Gordon Boyle 5 Apr 1918 Albert
• John Waldegrave Packer 7 May 1918 Morlancourt

World War II 1939 - 1945

• James Percy Ray April / May 1942 Greece / Crete
• †Herbert Michael (Bert) Rubery 16 Feb 1942 Singapore
• John Roy (Jack) Thorpe OAM Feb 1942 Java
• †James Pryor Thatcher 7 Mar 1942 Java
• Norman Rees Willacott MID 27 Jul 1942 El Alemain Egypt