War Memorials in Australia

Penguin Memorial Library

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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 37 E
Ref: 70019

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South face
Above entrance porch
PENGUIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY

West side of entrance
Clock

White metal cross

Bronze plaque west side of cross
IN HONOUR OF
THE VETERANS FROM THE
PENGUIN MUNICIPALITY
WHO SERVED IN THE KOREAN WAR
1950 - 1953

LEST WE FORGET

Bronze plaque east side of cross
IN HONOUR OF
THE VETERANS FROM THE
PENGUIN MUNICIPALITY
WHO SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR
1964 - 1973

LEST WE FORGET

Marble tablet below
IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION
TO ALL WHO SERVED
FROM
THE MUNICIPALITY OF PENGUIN
1939 - 1945

 


Marble tablet on east side of entrance
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
THE RT. HON. SIR DONALD CROSS
BART.       K.C.V.G.
NOV   11TH  1954.


Information current to August 2001


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