This is a simply laid, red-brown brick wall, of 13 courses, with a 14th with the bricks 'on edge', making it 1.3 metres high. The central section has gold-coloured anodised lettering of "LEST WE FORGET", with the outer wings angled off at 15°, each with three bronze plaques for local individuals that had served Australia. Behind the wall are three flag poles, with the central one being about a metre taller than the other two.
The left-hand (northeastern) section has the following three plaques, from left, to right:
"046 PTE SLATTER FT
D COY 42 BTR
AIF WWI
LEST WE FORGET"
"QX29375 SPR SLATTER, A
C COY AP DOCK
RAE AIF WW2
LEST WE FORGET"
"QX501268
PTE SLATTER F
BCOF JAPAN
LEST WE FORGET"
* The Honouring Veterans website
Slatter, Arthur adds the following details for the middle plaque, for Arthur Slatter. He was born 18 December, 1922, in Allora, Qld., and Enlisted 19 January, 1942. His Next of Kin was Francis Slatter *
The right-hand (western) section of the wall has the following three plaques, from left, to right:
"IN MEMORY OF
1387 2ND CORPORAL
SYDNEY C WHITING
4TH BROAD GAGUE
RAILWAY OPERATING
COMPANY AIF WW1"
"IN MEMORY OF
NX147749
PTE WILLIAM T SMITH
58/59 BTN 2ND AIF
DOB 12 FEB 1924
KIA 1 APR 1944"
"IN MEMORY OF
435980 LAC
JAMES SYDNEY WHITING
40 SQUADRON
RAAF WW2
LEST WE FORGET
* For the middle plaque on the right-hand wing {Pte William T Smith), the Papua New Guinea Business & Tourism website has a forum section,
Lae Cemetery which adds the following information: "Son of Thomas Albert and Mary Elizabeth Smith, of Wallangarra, New South Wales (sic). M. B. 2."
In front of this Memorial Wall is a 600 mm high plinth, with a bronze plaque, that has the familiar "Ode", recited on ANZAC Days.
It reads:
"The Ode"
"They shall grow not old, as we that are
left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years
condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the
morning
We will remember them."
[Poppy]
Lest We Forget
Address: 69 Barawell Street, Wallangarra, Qld, 4383
Visited: 1110, Sunday, 17 April, 2016