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Rookwood Necropolis Merchant Navy Memorial and Columbarium

Rookwood Necropolis Merchant Navy Memorial and Columbarium
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Description / Background

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This memorial is a roofed columbarium, made from brick and wood and set within a memorial garden. A plaque is attached to the front wall of the structure, inscribed with a dedication to members of the Merchant Navy who died while serving in the First and Second World Wars. 

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Plaque

Erected to the memory of members of the Merchant Navy who lost their lives through enemy action in World Wars I and II, many of whom were well known in the Port of Sydney and the burial or depositing of ashes of seamen of all nations.

"They that go down to the sea in ships these men see the works of the Lord" Psalm 107.

Erected by the Merchant Navy War Memorial Appeal through the Sydney Mission to Seamen ('The Flying Angel') 1948.

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Address
Hawthorn Avenue
Rookwood NSW 2141
Local Government Area
Cumberland Council
Setting
Garden/park
Memorial type
Other
Recorded by
Rusty Priest AM
Year of construction
1948
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18
Second World War, 1939–45