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St John's Anglican Church WWI Lamp of Remembrance and Lychgate, Boorowa

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Description

A memorial lychgate is positioned at the entrance to St John's Anglican Church in Boorowa, NSW. Inside the gate hangs a Lamp of Remembrance, which is inscribed with the names of several First World War veterans.

The gate was where a body or coffin rested before being laid to reverent keeping in the consecrated ground surrounding the church. It is not simply an ornament, but a place of remembrance, a door through which we have to pass ourselves, and to remind us of the thought "Lord, remember, and keep them, as the whole church was not on this earth - the biggest part was in Paradise."

The gate was repaired and repainted in 2020–2021, with the support of a Community War Memorials Fund grant from the NSW Government.

Inscription

Plaque inside gate

In Memory of the
Soldier Sons
of the Church in the Parish,
Who gave their lives in
The Great War 1914–1918.
Their names are inscribed on the Lamp
of Remembrance, given by their Comrades.

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Veterans listed on this memorial

Last held rank Given Name Family Name Conflicts Fate Service No. Service Unit at embarkation Campaign Read more
Private T Gibbons First World War, 1914–18 Killed in action (KIA) 1356 Australian Army - First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) 2nd Battalion AIF Gallipoli 1915 view
Sergeant J Harding First World War, 1914–18 Died of wounds (DOW) 1750 Australian Army - First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF) 2nd Battalion AIF Ypres Salient 1917 view
J Howard Australian Army view
A Howes Australian Army view
E Jones Australian Army view
A Keefe Australian Army view
W Malone Australian Army view
J McCann Australian Army view
R Mewburn Australian Army view
A Mewburn Australian Army view

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Address
St John's Anglican Church
Cnr Queen and Farm Streets
Boorowa NSW 2586
Australia
Local Government Area
  • Hilltops Council
Setting
  • Building – outside
Location status
Original location
Memorial type
  • Gate/lychgate
  • Lamp
Recorded by
Kathy McLennan
Year of construction
1928
Established Date format: 
$e_original_date = $entity->field_established['und'][0]['value']; if (!empty($e_original_date)) { $changed_date = strtotime($e_original_date); $new_date = date("d F Y", $changed_date); print '
Established date
'; print $new_date; } else{ print ''; }
Dedication date
25 April 1928
Conflict/s
  • First World War, 1914–18
Materials
  • Concrete
  • Glass
  • Timber

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