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Young Soldiers Memorial Tower

Young Soldiers Memorial Tower
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Description / Background

The Soldiers Memorial Tower is the central feature of the Young Shire Council Town Hall and Council chambers building. The tower features a clock face at the top and a bronze statue of a Digger, located on the street-side of the tower at roof level.

There are several polished granite tablets on the outside of the main doorway beneath and inside the entrance foyer on which inscriptions and veterans' names from the First and Second World Wars are engraved. Four smaller plaques list separately those who died in both the First and Second World Wars, with bigger plaques listing all those who served. Some veterans' names are therefore duplicated.

Notes on veterans' names:

  • Australian War Memorial (AWM) records have no C Allen with any apparent connection to Young
  • AWM has no record of Brad Burrows but does list Alfred Burrows of Young as KIA
  • AWM has no record of TR Burstall
  • AWM has no record of Anthony Caldwell but does list Arthur E Caldwell, born at Young, as DOW
  • AWM records list only a WL Carnegie, who was KIA, but with no apparent link to Young
  • AWM records list only one N Duncan, who was KIA, but with no apparent link to Young
  • AWM records list this veteran as L F Gilbert
  • Listed in AWM records as J F Hardy
  • Listed in AWM records as Lloyd Hardy
  • No S J Hardy is listed in AWM Honour Roll, however J F Hardy, born at Young, is listed as DOD
  • Name is spelled Hargraves in AWM records
  • AWM records list this veteran as William John Harris
  • AWM records A J Kairl not AL as per memorial
  • AWM has no record of AJB Lennon but two JA Lennon both of whom were KIA
  • AWM records list no ME Madden but list WE Madden, born in Young, who was accidentally killed
  • AWM records list an MF and a MFJ Martin both of whom died of injuries
  • AWM lists this veteran as William Geoffrey Millard as presumed death at sea
  • AWM records list only one James Nash with a connection to Young and he was discharged invalid
  • AWM lists this veteran as Kenneth Charles Price, died of injuries
  • AWM records list only Thomas Vernon Price, presumed death at sea, but has no apparent link to Young
  • AWM has no record of F Schapira but records F C Shapira as having been accidentally killed.
  • AWM records notes that the name may be spelled as 'Sheehan'
  • AWM Honour Rolls list 7 Sutherlands with the first initial 'J', but none with an apparent link to Young
  • AWM Honour Rolls have no C Taylor with an apparent link to Young, but does list Allan Campbell Taylor, born at Young, as KIA
  • AWM records have this veteran listed as Hugh Albernest Tout
  • AWM records list 7 Wests withthe first initial 'J' none of whom have apparent links to Young
  • AWM records list 28 Wilsons with the first initial 'A'
Inscription

Tablet

1922

Erected in grateful

recognition of all

those who enlisted

and who fell in

the Great War

1914-1918

Roll

The town and districts' tribute to those who volunteered Great War 1914-1918

[Names]

Tablet

1988 Erected in grateful recognition of all those who fought and those who fell in Korean, Malaysian, Borneo and Vietnam campaigns

Tablet

In memory of the heroic dead.

[Names]

Erected by Comrades

Tablet

In memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice World War 1939-1945

[Names]

Plaque

In memory of the fallen and the Unknown Australian Soldier. 75th Anniversary of Remembrance Day 11.11.1993

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
Alf. J Vincent World War 1 view
John Vincent World War 1 view
Phillip J Vincent World War 1 view
Phillip J Vincent World War 1 view
B E Wales World War 1 view
E J Wales World War 1 view
H A Wales World War 1 view
R Wales World War 1 view
A B Wallace World War 1 view
A B Wallace World War 1 view

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Address
Young Shire Town Hall and Council Chambers
Boorowa Street
Young NSW 2594
Local Government Area
Hilltops Council
Setting
Roadside
Memorial type
Board/roll/plaque/tablet
Clock/clock tower/sundial
Recorded by
David Roden. Photographs taken by Warwick Roden.
Year of construction
1922
Dedication date
29 May 1924
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18
Second World War, 1939–45
Korean War, 1950–53
Malayan Emergency, 1950–60
Indonesian Confrontation, 1963–66
Vietnam War, 1962–75