Place: Alexandra, Victoria, 3714
District: North Central
Orientation: 70 km SE of Seymour
Location: Leckie Park
Position: 37 11 32 S     145 42 65 E
Ref: 30047

The memorial is a wall of granite blocks north of the First World War memorial.

West face
Incised
SHIRE OF ALEXANDRA  1939 - 1945

Metal plaque at north end
REMEMBER
IN HONOUR AND 
GRATITUDE
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THIS SHIRE
WHO SERVED
AUSTRALIA
IN THE
SECOND WORLD WAR,
FACING PERILS
AND
HARDSHIPS,
WOUNDS, SICKNESS,
CAPTIVITY AND DEATH,
AND PRESERVING
A HERITAGE
FOR US TO GUARD
AND TO CHERISH.

Metal plaque in centre
Bas-relief sculpture of service men and women, guns and tanks

Metal plaque at south end
THESE GAVE UP THE
PRICELESS GIFT
OF LIFE

A. BOWLER
B. BROOKS
R. F. CHANTER
B. COWCHER
F. J. COLHANE
E. W. DOCKING
A. C. EDWARDS
P. EDWARDS
W. E. EDWARDS
J. ELWARD
K. FLEETON
R. A. HANNING
J. KAPONICA
A. KILPATRICK
F. KILPATRICK
S. V. MACKRELL
A. K. MURRAY
J. McMARTIN
J. P. O'DONNELL
SISTER F. STEVENSON
E. C. STILLMAN
C. THIES
H. WATERS
L. WEBSTER

Incised in granite slab set in paving on west side of wall
WE HAVE A VOICE
WITH WHICH TO PAY
THE DEBT
OF BOUNDLESS LOVE
AND REVERENCE AND
REGRET
TO THOSE GREAT MEN
WHO FOUGHT

Information current to August 2001

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