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Woodford Memorial Park and Pavilion

Woodford Memorial Park and Pavilion
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Description / Background

From the NSW Office of State Heritage website:

Memorial Park is a municipal park sandwiched between the Great Western Highway to the north and the railway line to the south. The park rises steeply from the highway to the railway boundary.

At the high point of the site, on a rock outcrop, is a war memorial pavilion designed as a shelter. The war memorial is a square pavilion with an intersecting gabled roof. The roof is supported on stone piers with brick cappings. A rockfaced stone bulastrade with bullnose brick cappings spans between the piers.

On the north side a terrazzo stair with stone spandrels and bullnosed brick capping provides access to the shelter. The base of the pavilion is of tapered rockfaced sandstone.

A monument in the centre of the pavilion is a rockfaced sandstone monument with tapered sides. Marble plaques at the base commemorate World War I. Granite plaques commemorate World War II.

The monument was constructed in 1920 by a local builder and stonemason Thomas Owen Thomas, and opened on 25 April 1922. 

Inscription

Monument - north side

WOODFORDS MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO FOR KING AND EMPIRE ENLISTED FROM THIS VILLAGE FOR SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919

Monument - top

1939 LEST WE FORGET 1945

Veterans listed on this memorial

Veterans listed on this memorial

Last held rank Given name Family name Conflict/s Service No. Service Campaign Read more
Signalman Stanley Moppett World War 2 NX57844 AIF view
Signalman Thomas Joseph Pearce World War 2 NX55571 AIF view
Signalman Robin Raymond World War 2 NX94875 AIF view
Dvr Joan Hartley Roberts World War 2 N389431 AWAS view
Lead Air Owen Furley Thomas World War 2 433025 RAAF view
Craftsman Trevor Reginald Thruchly World War 2 N190070 AMF view
Cpl William Henry Toombs World War 1 2412 AIF view
Pte Stafford Filmore Ware World War 1 7059 AIF view
Private J E Wheeler First World War, 1914–18 4552 Australian Army - First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) Somme 1916 - 1917 view
Pte Frederick Standon Wheeler World War 1 2277 AIF view

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Address
Woodford Memorial Park
75A Great Western Highway
Woodford NSW 2778
Local Government Area
Blue Mountains, City of
Memorial type
Building
Garden/park
Recorded by
Terry and Rhonda Flowers
Year of construction
1920
Dedication date
25 April 1922
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18
Second World War, 1939–45