Wandearah Memorial

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Key information

Memorial Name:
Wandearah Memorial
Address:

Wandearah Road
Wandearah East SA 5523
Australia

Memorial Type:
Column
Conflicts:
  • South African War (Boer War), 1899–1902
  • First World War, 1914–18
  • Second World War, 1939–45
  • Korean War, 1950–53
  • Vietnam War, 1962–75
Dedication Date:
Memorial Designer:
Broughton Plains Heritage Society
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Stories

Story

The Good-Bye

 

In uniform the soldier stood 
Beside his mother, old and grey.

RSL (Port Pirie Sub Branch) Inc.

Australian Army Nursing Service Nurses from the 2/4th Australian General Hospital on board the British Hospital Ship ‘Dorsetshire’ enroute to Tobruk. Sister Dorothy Goode is second from the left.
Story

Captain Dorothy Jean Goode

Dorothy Jean Goode was born in Port Pirie on the 22nd September 1911 to Samuel Mortimer James and Mary Jean Bishe Goode (nee Lindsay).

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Joseph Munday - Circa 1916
Story

Private Joseph Munday

Joseph Munday was born on the 26th January 1891 in Wandearah East, South Australia, one of eight children to William and Emma Munday (nee Fidge). 

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Sergeant Clarence Davidson - Militia (Light Horse) circa 1914
Story

Corporal Clarence Davidson

Clarence Davidson was one of the first to join the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) from Port Pirie, South Australia, on the 19th August 1914, 3 weeks after war was declared

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