War Memorials in Australia

Forth Cenotaph

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Place: Forth, Tasmania, 7310
District: Northwest Coast

Orientation: 11 km W of Devonport
Location: Entrance to Forth Sports Ground, Mell Street
Position: 41 11 32 S     146 14 97 E
Ref: 70011

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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  --
TX 8276
PTE
A. DUDFIELD
P.O.W.
DIED OCT.17.1943
ERECTED BY FORTH
PARENTS & FRIENDS
ASS'N.

 


Information current to August 2001


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