Cenotaph WW2 - Wyong, NSW, Australia
S 33° 17.047 E 151° 25.415
56H E 353203 N 6316106
Up the hill from the Shopping Centre is a Memorial column with an Honour Roll of the locals who served in World War Two [and inscriptions for multiple conflicts.]
Waymark Code: WMYJ0A
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 06/18/2018
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At 'the top' of Wyong Town Park is a grey cylindrical column of polished trachyte surmounted by an orb of red granite, standing on a 1.5 m high square base of trachyte, that has memorial plaques and engravings, (mostly gilded). There is a further concrete base about a metre high with five steps up in each of the four sides. The inscriptions on the northern face are for World War Two, and read:
ROLL OF HONOR
F/O Jack Burraston Pte. Reg Huckle
F/Sgt N. Tresidder N.A.J. Fernance
A. B. Ronald H. Kerr G.A. Beaven
Cpl. Victor Francis G. Dewhurst
G. Kelson M.D. O'Connor
Pte Ronald Elwell S. Boyd
Keith Trigg E.J. Downing
Guildford Robinson J. Winstanley
Robert Tyrie Robert McPhan
Alan Hart Craig Thomson
James Davis Obs. A.D. Crowther
Peter Hamilton
DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO SERVED
AND THOSE WHO DIED
IN WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
Initially the Memorial was made only to commemorate those that went to 'the Great War', and was installed in Railway Square, being unveiled ANZAC Day, 1923 - 25th April, 1923. It was rededicated on 16th April 1994 to commemorate those enlisted fr World War Two, and subsequent conflicts. (And may have been moved to this location THEN!) [Ex-Monument Australia website: Wyong]
Visited: 1633, Wednesday, 7 February, 2018