War Memorials in Australia

Balranald War Memorial

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Place: Balranald,  New South Wales, 2715
District: Riverina
Orientation: 132 km W of Hay
Location: McCabe Street (Sturt Highway) and Court Street
Position: 34 38 66 S     143 34 01 E
Ref: 20105

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The memorial is a white marble World War I soldier, arms reversed, on a granite obelisk which sits on a large block of rusticated granite. The whole sits on a 3-stepped granite base.

There is a flagpole in the middle of the park in which the memorial is located and also an anti-aircraft gun.

North face
BALRANALD AND DISTRICT
IN HONOR AND IN LASTING MEMORY
OF THEIR SOLDIERS
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919.

  ANDREWS A. LOUTITT R. E.  
  ANDERSON K. MOZAR A. W.  
  BALSHAW N. McINTYRE J. A.  
  BALSHAW R. McGLADE T. H.  
  BARTLETT D. McNAMARA T. J.  
  BRYANT H. W. NIELD W. J.  
  BUTLER J. NEILL E.  
  CAMERON A. N. PARKER W.  
  COATES J. J. PEACOCK R. H.  
  FIREBRACE W. POWELL M.  
  GREENHAM S. L. RICHARDSON R.  
  GRIMISON N. R. ROWE L. W. L.  
  HOBSON Y. ROWLING W. L.  
  HUGHES G. T. SIMPSON A.  
  JOHNSTON E. SIMPSON C. H.  
  JOHNSON C. TURNER W. E.  
  JONES D. S. TURNBULL C.  
  JONES T. C. VILE J. W.  
  JONES J. W. WHITE F. I.  
  LOUTITT A. V. WILKINSON R. R.  
  LOUTITT H. A. SMITH J. H.  

 

 

West face
    ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS
OF BALRANALD AND DISTRICT IN         
HONOUR AND IN LASTING MEMORY     
OF THEIR SOLDIERS WHO MADE THE   
SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR.                                       

1939 - 1945

  J. E. ALLEN. R. M. JERROM.  
  R. R. ALLEN. D. L. MURPHY.  
  N. L. BERRY. R. A. NEILD JUNR.  
  G. V. BOYNTON. J. P. OLIVER.  
  L. J. CARTER. K. H. PRATT.  
  D. A. CHALMERS. C. R. RUMBERG.  
  V. T. CONNELLAN. R. SMITH.  
  R. DALE. W. J. TAYLOR.  
  W. FINLAYTER. A. E. TINKLER.  
  G. J. GRAY. J. WILLIAMS.  

 

The other 2 faces are blank

 


Information current to October 2002

Sources:  Some of  the information and the photograph on this page have been kindly provided by Brett Prentice  


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