Clunes War Memorial

The inscriptions on the Clunes Cenotaph are detailed below.

South Side

LEST WE FORGET

RISING SUN EMBLEM

ERECTED IN HONOUR OF

ALL WHO ENLISTED FROM

THIS TOWN AND DISTRICT

FOR THE GREAT WAR

1914 – 1918

ALSO

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN

PASS NOT THIS STONE IN SORROW

BUT WITH PRIDE

AND MAY YOU LIVE AS NOBLY AS

THEY DIED

WE LIVE IN DEEDS NOT YEARS

THIS MONUMENT WAS UNVEILED BY

SENATOR HAROLD ELLIOTT

(RET. BRIGADIER GENERAL POMPEY ELLIOTT CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, VD)

NOVEMBER 19^TH 1921

IT WAS ERECTED BY DONATION FROM THE PEOPLE OF CLUNES AND DISTRICT

TO HONOUR THOSE WHO ENLISTED AND COMMEMORATE

THOSE WHO FELL IN THE SERVICE OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE

North Side

TO HONOUR OUR MEN AND WOMEN

WHO SERVED IN THE WARS OF 

1914 – 1918, 1939 – 1945

AND IN BORNEO, MALAYA, KOREA AND 

VIETNAM CAMPAIGNS 

AND ALL SUBSEQUENT 

PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS

ONLY THOSE DESERVE FREEDOM

WHO ARE PREPARED TO DEFEND IT

KILLED IN WORLD WAR II

CARKEET PTE. J.

DOWIE GUNNER W.

FAWCETT FLT/SGT. W

LUCY FLT/SGT. H. K.

RICHARDSON F/O. P. W.W.

ROBBINS PTE. L.

TOLLIDAY F/O. W. J.

IN MEMORY OF

FLIGHT LIEUTENANT PAUL PARDOEL R.A.F.

KILLED IN IRAQ

30^TH JANUARY 2005

West Side

ANDREWS EDWARD

BRUNSTON HENRY

BARRETT ALLAN

BREEN JOHN

COWAN ROBERT

CONNELLY FRANCIS

CAMPBELL JAMES

CAMPBELL CLARENCE

DWYER JOHN

FRITH HECTOR

FOLEY JOE

GRENFELL JAMES

GRENFELL RICHARD

JONES DAN

JONES CHARLES

JONES FRANCIS

SMITHSON GUS

East Side

KING MALCOLM

KING ALBERT

LEE HUGH

LANEGHAN NICHOLAS

MOORE JOHN

OGIER ROBERT

OLIVER ROBERT

PICKFORD HORACE

PAYNE ROY

PURCELL JOHN

ROBERTSON COLIN

ROBERTS JOHN

SKELLETT KEMPSON

THOMAS ALBERT

THOMAS CLARENCE

WILLIAMSON STANLEY

MCDONALD PETER