War Memorials in Australia
Royal Australian Signals Memorial
Place:
Hobart, Tasmania, 7000
District: South East,
Huon & Channel and Lower Derwent Valley
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The memorial is a stone archway which forms the entrance to Memorial Corner. It was originally the entrance to the Bath Inn, a coaching inn on the Midlands Highway about halfway between Hobart and Launceston which was first licensed in 1844. It was re-erected in the Barracks in 1974. Plaques on the wall honour Tasmanian pioneers as well as members of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals.
North face
Over arch
ROYAL
Insignia SIGNALS
AUSTRALIAN
West side of arch
THOSE WHO
Plaque below
Names of members of Signal Corps now deceased
but not necessarily in war
East side of arch
HAVE SERVED
Plaque below
Names of members of Signal Corps now deceased
but not necessarily in war
There are also gravestones and other plaques to pioneers on
north face of archway wall
South face
Plaque on east side of arch
SIGNALS
MEMORIAL
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO SERVED IN SIGNALS
AND
HAVE PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN Insignia
of Royal Australian Corps of Signals
THE GREAT WAR 1914-18
AND SUBSEQUENT WARS
INVOLVING AUSTRALIA
DEDICATED 12th OCT. 1975
Plaques on west side of arch
1st plaque
BATH INN
ARCH
A FINE EXAMPLE OF EARLY
COLONIAL STONE MASONRY
PRESENTED TO ANGLESEA BARRACKS
BY
MAJOR J. H. HALL, ED
ON
28 FEBRUARY 1974
THE BATH INN, FIRST LICENSED IN 1844, WAS
LOCATED ON
THE MIDLANDS HIGHWAY ABOUT 48 MILES FROM HOBART.
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ARCH WAS UNDERTAKEN BY THE
FOLLOWING SOLDIERS OF 21 CONSTRUCTION SQUADRON RAE
SAPPER M. A. BELL
SAPPER R. L. BERRY
SAPPER K. P. CAPORN
2nd plaque
THIS MEMORIAL WAS
UNVEILED BY
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR
OF TASMANIA
SIR STANLEY BURBURY KBE
ON
12 OCTOBER 1975
Information current to August 2001