Place: Jamestown, South Australia, 5491
District: Mid North
Orientation: 73 km N of Clare
Location: Irvine Street and Ayr Street
Position: 33 12 31 S     138 36 32 E
Ref: 50063

The memorial is a marble obelisk enclosed by a metal fence. On the shaft of the obelisk are various sculptured devices including a hand and flowers. The monument sits in the central plantation of the street and behind it is an anti-aircraft gun.

The inscription is sometimes used as a grammar lesson for parties of visiting schoolchildren.

Jamestown is reputed to have had the biggest per capita enrolment in the Boer War from any town in Australia.
 

South face
ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE
TROOPER H. E. GOODES
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION
AT BETHEL. SOUTH AFRICA.
ON MAY 23^RD 1901.
AGED 25 YEARS
BY THE RESIDENTS OF JAMESTOWN
AND DISTRICT OF BELALIE.
 

On lower right hand side
DRAYSEY & CO
 

Other faces are blank.
 

Information current to October  2002

Sources:  John Hector, pers.comm.

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