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Yerong Creek and District War Memorials

Yerong Creek and District War Memorials
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Description / Background

Two memorials are located in the Garden of Remembrance within Stanley Galvin Park. The first is a wall topped with drinking fountains, dedicated on 25 April 1952. The wall is topped with a concrete slab, and has two original marble plaques on the front face, as well as two more recent brass plaques. The second memorial is a newer brick wall, and contains several plaques with honour rolls. There is also a timber flagpole nearby. 

Inscription

Drinking fountain - marble plaque 1

Yerong Creek & District

Memorial

Lest We Forget

Dedicated to the memory of

those who paid

the supreme sacrifice

World Wars 1914-18, 1939-45

Drinking fountain - marble plaque 2

Erected by C.W.A. 1952.

Drinking fountain - plaque 3

WWI

[Names]

Drinking fountain - plaque 4

WWII

[Names]

Wall - plaque 1

Yerong Creek

Memorial Honour Roll

Erected to recognise the ceasing of hostilities World War II 1939-1945

Unveiled by

Mr Bruce Ruxton OBE RSL President Victoria &

the Hon Noel Hicks MP Member for Riverina

dedicated by

Gary Kenney

Chaplin of 1 RTB

4th August 1995.

Wall - plaque 2

1914 1918

Yerong Creek & District

WW I

Honour Roll

For God, King & Country 

[Names] 

+ Made the Great Sacrifice

Wall - plaque 3

1939 1945

Yerong Creek & District

WW II

Honour Roll

For God, King & Country 

[Names] 

Vietnam

[Names]

+ Made the Great Sacrifice

Veterans listed on this memorial

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Address
Stanley Galvin Park
Plunket Street
Yerong Creek NSW 2642
Local Government Area
Lockhart Shire
Setting
Garden/park
Memorial type
Fountain/Drinking fountain
Wall
Recorded by
Peter Levarre-Waters
Year of construction
1952
Dedication date
04 August 1995
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18
Second World War, 1939–45
Vietnam War, 1962–75