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

Latest revision as of 19:08, 24 April 2024

ANZAC Memorial Park
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ANZAC Memorial Park
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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

References

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