Lithgow Public School Memorial Gates

Description

A brick and stone gateway with three entrances and three marble plaques attached.

Inscription

Plaque 1

Lithgow
Public School
Memorial Gates

Plaque 2

Erected by the pupils of this school to the memory of the men and women of this community who served in the World Wars and later conflicts.

Plaque 3

They served so that we could live in peace. Let us not betray the trust they handed our generation.

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Address
Cnr Mort and Eskbank Streets
Lithgow NSW 2790
Australia
Local Government Area
  • Lithgow, City of
Setting
  • Roadside
Memorial type
  • Gate/lychgate
Recorded by
David Roden
Established Date format: 
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Conflict/s
  • First World War, 1914–18
  • Second World War, 1939–45
  • Occupation of Japan, 1946–51
  • Korean War, 1950–53
  • Malayan Emergency, 1950–60
  • Indonesian Confrontation, 1963–66
  • Vietnam War, 1962–75
  • Iraq: the First Gulf War, 1990–91
  • Afghanistan, 2001–present
  • Iraq: the Second Gulf War, 2003–09
  • Peacekeeping, 1947–present