WA State War Memorial

Monument Details
Name	Western Australian State War Memorial
Location	King's Park, Perth, Western Australia
Dedication Date	24 Nov 1929

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

• † Frank William Dowell
• † William Duffy
• † Thomas Flavin
• † John Wesley Gladstone Turner

12th Battalion

• † Stanley Joseph Callow Champion

16th Battalion

• † Robert Prior Bailey
• † Austin Henry (Paddy) Bingham
• † Henry Bolton
• † Frederick Lawrence Close
• † John James Emery
• † Alfred Arthur (Fred) Rouse

28th Battalion

• † Gilbert Henry Balinswella
• † William Barge
• † Leonard Butcher
• † Stephen Gittins
• † John Hobbs
• † Frederick Thornton Lindley
• † Charles William Price

32nd Battalion

• † Bertie Greenfield

33rd Battalion

• † Thomas Hesketh

44th Battalion

• † George Alexander Armstrong
• † Henry Ernest Howard
• † Tom Baxter Joyce
• † Robert Melville Salter
• † Ernest William Serls

46th Battalion

• † George Mouatt Dow

48th Battalion

• † Albert Thomas Ticklie MM

51st Battalion

• † Charles Maul Glover
• † Leonard Roy Matthews
• † Charles William Price
• † Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor

4th Field Engineers

• † Frederick Douglas Atlee Bowra

• † 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