War Memorials in Australia

Sorell War Memorial

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Place: Sorell, Tasmania, 7172
District: South East, Huon & Channel and Lower Derwent Valley

Orientation: 26 km NE of Hobart
Location: Outside Sorell Memorial Hall, Cole Street (Tasman Highway) opposite Walker Street
Position: 42 46 87 S     147 33 66 E
Ref: 70067

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The memorial is a statue of a khaki coloured soldier, arms reversed but head unbowed, standing on a granite plinth.  There is a metal flagpole on the west side.

South face
THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1919.

On section below
ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS
OF THE
MUNICIPALITY OF SORELL.

 

 

West face

THE FALLEN

K. D. HEAN 20 .  6  . 1916
S. R. WIGGENS   5 .  7  .    -
J. H. MILLINGTON 30 .  1  . 1917
F. J. McDERMOTT   3 .  2  .    -
W. TOWNSEND 27 .  2  .    -
E. G. BARNARD 10 .  4  .    -
C. YOUNG 11 .  4  .    -
L. W. AHRVEY   7 .  6  .    -
J. A. YOUNG   4 . 10  .    -
R. E. QUINTALL   5 . 10  .    -
M. P. G. JOSEPH   6 . 10  .    -
A. CURRAN   6 . 10  .    -
N. S. BIRCHALL 12 . 10  .    -
C. R. YOUNG 13 . 10  .    -
A. V. BARNARD 22 . 10  .    -
F. J. DENHOLM 12 .  1  . 1918
W. H. BARNARD 21 .  1  .    -
A. T. H. BENDER 30 .  3  .    -
P. V. SUTTON 23 .  4  .    -
P. JOSEPH   3 .  5  .    -
G. H. LONG 23 .  7  .    -
G. BLACKWOOD 24 .  7  .    -
C. E. KINGSTON 11 .  8  .    -
A. R. BLACKMORE   2 . 11 .    -

 

 

North face
TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY
OF OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS.

 

 

East face
DUTY NOBLY DONE

C. F. WELLS   7 .  8  . 1915
G. C. RICHARDSON   2 .  8  . 1917



Information current to August 2001


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