War Memorials in Australia
Forth Cenotaph
Place: Forth,
Tasmania, 7310
District: Northwest
Coast
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The memorial is an upright metal sheet with cutout figures of sailor, soldier and airman. In sits on a raised platform faced with brick pavers and edged by garden beds. In front of it, on the south side, are concrete posts holding a steel gate and on the east side is a flagpole.
South face, above figures
LEST WE FORGET
North face
Bronze badges
Royal Australian Navy Australian Imperial
Force Royal Australian Air Force
Bronze plaque below
TO THE ETERNAL MEMORY OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN OF
THE FORTH AND KINDRED DISTRICT
WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY
IN TIMES OF WAR
Below this
Bronze wreath
South face of western gate post
THIS CENOTAPH
WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT BY
MEMBERS OF
THE LIONS CLUB OF FORTH VALLEY
AND PRESENTED TO THE
RETURNED SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE DISTRICT
APRIL 1990
South face of eastern gate post
TO THE MEMORY
-- OF --
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PTE A. DUDFIELD
P.O.W.
DIED OCT.17.1943
ERECTED BY FORTH
PARENTS & FRIENDS
ASS'N.
Information current to August 2001