War Memorials in Australia

Burnie Subsequent Wars Memorial

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Place: Burnie, Tasmania, 7320
District: Northwest Coast

Orientation:
Location: Burnie Park, Bass Highway, western side of town
Position: 41 02 84 S     145 53 82 E
Ref: 70016

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The memorial is a blue granite obelisk on a granite plinth on a granite platform.  There are sloped plaques of black marble on each of the four sides.

East face
SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945

ALEXANDER Norris Henry CRISP Thomas James
BELBIN R. J. DAVIS L. A.
BILLINGHURST George Mervyn DOCKER William Harold
BILLETT Stanley Owen ELPHINSTONE Sydney Claude
BREEN William Robert GOODLUCK Leonard Clive
BURLEY William George GUILBERT John Sydney
CAMERON Peter Talmage HANBURY G. L.
CLARKE M. R. HARDSTAFF Roy Albert
CLERKE Richard Martyn HAYWOOD Albert Leonard
CLINGELEFFER Leonard Charles JACKSON Athol Charles
COUSINS Reginald Raymond JACKSON Alan Eric Vivian
CRANWELL Henry Alfred JOHNSON G. J.
CRAWFORD Kelvin Leon JOHN Christopher
LLOYD     John Hanbury Gordon

"LEST WE FORGET"

 

 

North face
SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945

LAY D. POLSON Gordon John
McCABE Angus Wosley RADFORD Norman
McCABE McKay Bernard Linton RADFORD T.
McCABE Donald Wosley RILEY Maxwell Ernest
MARSHALL John Elliott RILEY Thomas Robert
MARSHALL J. S. RIGGS Robert Wilfrey
MARTIN John William ROBOTHAM Lance Desmond
MILNE William Thomas SADLIER Joseph
MORGAN Mortyn Vivian Lovell SPURR Henry James
MUNTING Trevor Lindsay VINEY Laurence Charles
NICHOLS Edward Frank Lyell WARD D. J.
OAKLEY Leonard Thomas WATSON Clifford Cornelius
O'CONNOR Norton Donald WOODWARD Norman Francis

WRIGHT       Leslie

"LEST WE FORGET"

 

 

West face
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN
ARMED FORCES WHO SERVED IN
VIETNAM

1962 - 1973

"LEST WE FORGET"

 

 

South face
THE MALAYSIAN EMERGENCY
AND THE INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO
SERVED FOR THEIR COUNTRY
"LEST WE FORGET"

THE KOREAN WAR
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED
FOR THEIR COUNTRY
"LEST WE FORGET"

 

 

There is a rock to the south of this memorial and the First World War Memorial with a bronze plaque on its north face:

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN
AND THE UNKNOWN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER
75TH ANNIVERSARY OF
REMEMBRANCE DAY
11. 11. 1993

 


Information current to August 2001


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