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
• † James Winning

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
• † Albert Edward John Walls

32nd Battalion

• † Bertie Greenfield
• † William Archer Waller

33rd Battalion

• † Thomas Hesketh

44th Battalion

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

46th Battalion

• † George Mouatt Dow
• † Arthur Werndly

48th Battalion

• † Albert Thomas Ticklie MM

51st Battalion

• † Charles Maul Glover
• † Leonard Roy Matthews
• † 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

• † George Brushmeyer
• † Stanley Gordon Curtis
• † Robert Hassett
• † Edgar Joseph Howard
• † Kenneth Myers Kroenert
• † Edward Johnathon (Ted) Leadbitter
• † Victor Charles Lowe
• † John Hector Russell MacDonald
• † Francis James Marchant
• † Andrew McKenzie
• † Wallace Nelson McLauchlan
• † William Percival Nairn
• † John Gordon Nicholson
• † Jack North
• † Angelo Andrew Pagoda
• † Douglas Windsor Parkin
• † Mervyn Roy Parkin
• † Herbert Michael (Bert) Rubery
• † David John Sexty
• † Bernard Sydney Smailes
• † Eric Stanley Southern
• † Robert Summerfield
• † James Pryor Thatcher
• † Yure Unkovich
• † 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