Place: Penguin, Tasmania, 7316
District: Northwest Coast
Orientation: 18 km E of Burnie
Location: Main Road, near Crescent Street
Position: 41 06 82 S     146 04 38 E
Ref: 70017

The memorial is a white painted obelisk.

Marble tablet on south face
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED
BY THE PUBLIC IN MEMORY OF
TROOPERS THOMAS WILLIAM
BARKER AND GEOFFREY HUGH
BROWN, OF PENGUIN, WHO
DIED IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1900,
NOBLY DOING THEIR DUTY FOR
THEIR QUEEN AND EMPIRE.

TROOPER BARKER, FOUGHT WITH
THE FIRST CONTINGENT, AND DIED
AT DEELFONTEIN, OF ENTERIC FEVER.

TROOPER BROWN, OF THE I^ST
IMPERIAL BUSHMEN, DIED OF
WOUNDS RECEIVED AT
WARMBATHS

Information current to August 2001

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