War Memorials in Australia

Mintaro and District War Memorial

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Place: Mintaro, South Australia, 5414
District: Northern Agricultural
Orientation: 59 km SW of Burra
Location: Burra Road, outside Institute
Position:
33 55 08 S     138 43 40 E
Ref: 50025

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The memorial is a stone plinth with a flat top of local slate and a slate shelf at the base. There is a flagpole on the north side.

Plaque on south side
MINTARO AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL

Below this are four plaques, reading from west to east

 1st plaque
Insignia of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
BOER WAR  1899 - 1902

S. LANDSELL
O. FRY
A.A. VICKERY

1914 - 1918.


2nd plaque
Insignia of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
W. W. I.   1914 - 1918

H.M. COMMERFORD
F. GILES
J.C. JACOBS
R.S. SPACKMAN
P.E. WILLIAMS

 


3rd plaque
Insignia of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
W. W. II.   1939 - 1945

J. GARRARD
W.S. JENNER
K.J. MCKINNON
S.W. SAWYERS

 


4th plaque
Insignia of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
VIETNAM   1962 - 1972

R.L. FISHER


Below this is a single plaque
LEST WE FORGET 


Information current to November 2000 


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