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Yass and District Great War Roll of Honour

Yass and District Great War Roll of Honour
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Two large, matching grey and white-streaked marble plaques located on opposite sides of the foyer of the Yass Soldiers' Memorial Hall. Veterans' names from the First World War and inscriptions are in gilt. A brass laurel wreath is in the top corner of each plaque.

Inscription

[Top of both plaques]

To honour those men of Yass and District whose self-sacrifice and heroic courage preserved for us the rights of a free people and held inviolate our glorious Empire, also those devoted women whose skill and sympathy helped to alleviate suffering in the Great War 1914-1918

[Names]

[Below names on both plaques, signifying those listed above had died on service]

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

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
W H Bowden World War 1 view
C Bradford World War 1 view
H Bradford World War 1 view
J Bradford World War 1 view
L Bragg World War 1 view
J J Brassil World War 1 view
T S Brassil World War 1 view
T P Bray World War 1 view
H Britten World War 1 view
M T Brown World War 1 view

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Address
Yass Soldiers' Memorial Hall
82-94 Comur Street
Yass NSW 2582
Local Government Area
Yass Valley Council
Setting
Building – inside
Memorial type
Board/roll/plaque/tablet
Recorded by
David Roden
Year of construction
1923
Dedication date
05 March 1923
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18
Materials
Marble