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Camden Cenotaph

Camden Cenotaph
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Camden Cenotaph, front/Side 1
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Camden Cenotaph, Side 2
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Camden Cenotaph, Side 3
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Camden Cenotaph, Side 4
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Camden Cenotaph with surroundings, a trophy cannon on either side visible
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Description / Background

This memorial is a sandstone cenotaph, with bronze plaques bearing the names of those from the local area who served in the First and Second World Wars. The memorial is located In the southeastern corner of Macarthur Park. Three cannons are displayed nearby.

Inscription

Side 1

TO

OUR GLORIOUS DEAD

THE GREAT WAR

1914-19

1939-45

Side 2, top plaque

GREATER

LOVE HATH

NO MAN

1939

1945

[Names]

Side 2, bottom plaque

KILLED IN ACTION

[Names]

Side 3, top plaque

KILLED IN ACTION

[Names]

Side 3, bottom plaque

THE DEAD

Blow out, you bugles, over the

rich dead!

There's none of these so lonely

and poor of old,

But dying, has made us rarer gifts

than gold.

These laid the world away; poured

out the red

Sweet wine of youth; gave up the

years to be

Of works and joy, and that unhoped

serene,

That men call age; and those

who would have been

Their sons, they gave their

immortality.

Rupert Brooke

Side 4

DIED OF WOUNDS

[Names]

DIED OF ILLNESS

[Names]

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Address
Macarthur Park
Menangle Road
Camden NSW 2570
Local Government Area
Camden Council
Setting
Garden/park
Location status
Original location
Memorial type
Cenotaph
Recorded by
Zara; Mark Baird, Camden Council
Year of construction
1922
Dedication date
11 February 1922
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18
Second World War, 1939–45
Materials
Bronze
Sandstone