War Memorials in Australia

Monaghan Hayes Place

Place: Cooma, New South Wales, 2630
District: Southern Tablelands
Orientation: 114 km S of Canberra
Location: Vale Street
Position: 36 14 04 S     149 07 42 E
Ref: 20131

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The Place has a number of memorials.  It is named after Trooper Monaghan Hayes, the first Cooma resident to die during the First World War.

One brick wall in the complex has a number of plaques to individuals who died after leaving the armed services.  Those names are not recorded here.

    Two brick walls at south end of complex with stone pillar between them
South face of west wall
MONAGHAN HAYES PLACE
 

South face of east wall
                                                       Insignia of                                    Insignia of                               Insignia of                                                                     
                                                Royal Australian Navy                Australian Military Forces          Royal Australian Air Force                                                      

Plaque on top of central pillar
 Insignia of Australian Imperial Force
MONAGHAN R. HAYES
NO. 330 TROOPER 1ST AUST. LIGHT HORSE
KILLED GALLIPOLI
31 JULY 1915
FIRST COOMA SOLDIER TO FALL IN
WORLD WAR I

In centre of area
2 brick plinths with bronze plaques on west face
East plinth
Tri-service insignia
IN COMMEMORATION OF
THE VALOUR, DEVOTION
AND LOYALTY
OF ALL SERVICEMEN
WHO HAVE SERVED
AUSTRALIA AND
THOSE WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES FOR OUR
COUNTRY IN ALL
NATIONAL CONFLICTS
 

West plinth
                                                      Insignia of                                 Insignia of                               Insignia of                                                                     
                                                Royal Australian Navy                Australian Imperial Force          Royal Australian Air Force                                                          
IN RECOGNITION OF
THE COURAGE AND SACRIFICE OF
THE WOMEN WHO SERVED
AND THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY

Wall at north end of complex
North Face
10 metal plaques
1st plaque
IN MEMORY OF
NX 107140
L/CPL ERNEST WILLIAM MOULD
2/1^ST AUST. INF. BN
K. I. A. 19TH FEBRUARY, 1945
No greater love

2nd plaque
PTE. ALFRED JOHN ROSE
NO. 392
3^RD BATTALION A.I.F.
WORLD WAR I
FLYING OFFICER
No. 265874
WORLD WAR II
DIED 18^TH MAY, 1953.

3rd plaque
IN MEMORY OF
ALL ROYAL ENGINEERS OF
19^TH DIV. - 14^TH ARMY
WHO DIED DURING 1943 - 45
IN BURMA CAMPAIGN.
Lest we forget
 

4th plaque
IN MEMORY OF
NX 35091
MAJOR GEORGE FULTON COPELAND
3^RD AUST. A/TK REGT.
DIED 1^ST NOVEMBER, 1942
Lest we forget
 

5th plaque
IN MEMORY OF
EX-PUPILS OF
COOMA PUBLIC SCHOOL
Lest we forget

6th plaque
IN MEMORY OF
N267906
PTE. RAYMOND JOSEPH WYKES
3^RD AUST. INF. BN
DIED 23^RD DECEMBER, 1942
Lest we forget
 

7th plaque
IN MEMORY OF
GROUP 19 FOOTBALLERS
WHO PAID THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE

8th plaque
IN MEMORY OF
NX 60336
PTE LESLIE HENRY MOULD
2/17 BN. A.I.F.
DIED 5^TH JANUARY, 1946
Lest we forget

9th plaque
LIEUT-COLONEL
CLAYTON DAVIS D.S.O., M.C.
1915-1918
1941-1945
2/2 PIONEER BN.
DIED 4^TH NOVEMBER, 1957

10th plaque
IN MEMORY OF
PTE. VICTOR OWENS
2/12 FD. AMB.  A.I.F.
DROWNED ON
HOSPITAL SHIP "CENTAUR"
12^TH MAY, 1943
 

On section below
        Insignia of                                               Insignia of                               Insignia of                                                     
              Australian Commonwealth Military Forces        Royal Australian Navy          Royal Australian Air Force                                                          

South Face
3 bronzeplaques
1st plaque
 Paratroop insignia
CAPT. ZYGMUNT OLSZEWSKI
BRITISH PARA BRIGADE

POLISH MEDAL OF VICTORY
AND FREEDOM

1908 - 1994

2nd plaque
 Insignia of RSL
IN RECOGNITION OF THE WORK OF
THE COOMA-MONARO SUB-BRANCH
OF THE RETURNED AND SERVICES LEAGUE
OF AUSTRALIA
IN DEVELOPMENT OF MONAGHAN HAYES PLACE
AS A MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO SERVED

3rd plaque
 Insignia of Australian Imperial Force
LIEUT. JOHN S. MOSLEY
2/33 BATTALION
K.I.A. 15. 9. 42

FIRST COOMA MAN TO FALL
IN W.W.2

On section below
        Insignia of                                               Insignia of                               Insignia of                                                     
              Australian Commonwealth Military Forces        Royal Australian Navy          Royal Australian Air Force                                                          

Below this
Bronze plaque on concrete plinth
Insignia of Royal Australian Air Force
46740

JOHN MACK
1925 - 1995

HIS DRIVE AND VISION
INITIATED THIS PROJECT

In centre of area
2 brick plinths with bronze plaques on west face
East plinth
Tri-service insignia
IN COMMEMORATION OF
THE VALOUR, DEVOTION
AND LOYALTY
OF ALL SERVICEMEN
WHO HAVE SERVED
AUSTRALIA AND
THOSE WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES FOR OUR
COUNTRY IN ALL
NATIONAL CONFLICTS
 

West plinth
                                                      Insignia of                                 Insignia of                               Insignia of                                                                     
                                                Royal Australian Navy                Australian Imperial Force          Royal Australian Air Force                                                          
IN RECOGNITION OF
THE COURAGE AND SACRIFICE OF
THE WOMEN WHO SERVED
AND THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THEIR COUNTRY
 

Information current to December 2001

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