St Paul's Anglican Church First World War Memorial Font

Description

The memorial font is made up of three sandstone blocks, worked by stone masons to form a baptismal font. The three blocks create the base, middle and top sections. The middle has the names inscribed on the sandstone, and later marble plaques with the names carved into the faces have been set into the relief sections on the faces of the stone. The top was worked from its square shape into an octagon. It is finished with the placement of the marble baptismal font cup in the centre of the top face.

The memorial font once sat in the church entrance. It was erected in July 1917 and was dedicated by the Dean of St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney on 22 September the same year. Oatley Anglican Church (also known as St Paul’s Anglican Church, Oatley) donated the memorial font to the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park in October 2017, for its collection as part of the Anzac Memorial Centenary Project.

Inscription

Top section - upper inscription

TO THE GLORY OF GOD IN LOVING MEMORY OF MEN FROM OATLEY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

Top section - lower inscription

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

Veterans listed on this memorial

Rank	Given Name	Family Name	Conflict/s	Fate	Service No.	Service	Unit	Campaign	Link
Pte	Percy Neville	Forrest	WW1	DOW	6253	AIF	19th Bn	Poelcappelle, Belg	view
Pte	Frank Derwent	Thompson	WW1	DOD	335	AIF	19th Bn	Etretat, France	view
Pte	Robert Cooper James	Murray	WW1	DOW	5747	AIF	1st Bn	Somme, France	view
Pte	Stanley James	Pickering	WW1	KIA	6785	AIF	1st Bn	Passchendaele, Belg	view
Maj	William	Davidson	WW1	DOW		AIF	1st Bn HQ	Gallipoli, Turkey	view
Pte	George Adam	Fletcher	WW1	DOD	541	AIF	20th Bn	St. Omer, France	view
Pte	Harold Henry	Brown	WW1	KIA	425	AIF	20th Bn	Poelcappelle, Belg	view
Cpl	William Ernest	Coleborne	WW1	KIA	4387	AIF	20th Bn	Passchendaele, Belg	view
Pte	Henry Francis	Perry	WW1	KIA	6164	AIF	21st Bn	Bullecourt, France	view
Pte	Arthur William	Whatling	WW1	DOW	1437	AIF	2nd Bn	Somme, France	view

Address

Anzac Memorial

Hyde Park

Sydney NSW 2000

Local Government Area

Sydney, City of

Setting

Building – inside

Location status

Moved/altered

Memorial type

Baptismal font

Recorded by

William Wright, St. Paul's Anglican Church

Established date

July 1917

Established Date format:

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Established date

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Dedication date:

22 September 1917

Dedication date

22 September 1917

Conflict/s

First World War, 1914–18

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