Araluen and the wars

Araluen Soldiers Memorial with three pine trees acting as sentinels over the memorial.
Araluen Soldiers Memorial
Alf Greenwood and Dad (Richard) Bolton at the WWI memorial, possibly at the unveiling 14 March 1931.
Alf Greenwood and Dad (Richard) Bolton at the WWI memorial, possibly at the unveiling 14 March 1931

The Araluen monument is divided into three sections— a base of square dressed granite, with another smaller square of dressed granite on top, and surmounted by an obelisk 4ft. [1.2m] high of dressed and polished granite, on which the names are cut in gold letters.

The unveiling ceremony took place on 14 March 1931, of a monument in Araluen, to provide an everlasting tribute to the men who had fought and fell in the Great War.  The following names are included on the monument: — J. Hush, W. H. May, D. Lynn, J. Marr, J. Stove, F. J. Stove, A. Axleby, C. Battye, W. Harman, V. H. Alley, P. Pickett, C H. Mundy, C. Dempsey,  A. E. Collins, J. Gardiner, B. Blundell, C. Blundell, A.J. Shepherd.

Following those names is a list of the fallen soldiers:—

Unveiling of the Soldiers’ Memorial on 14 March 1931.
Araluen Soldiers memorial - list on the memorial of those fallen in WWII.
Araluen Soldiers memorial – list on the memorial of those fallen in WWII

The WWII Nominal Rolls note over one hundred soldiers who upon enlisting nominated Araluen as their Place of Birth, while twenty two (22) enlisted at Araluen.

On the monument are names listed in Memory of the Fallen – 1939-1945:

Araluen Soldiers Memorial
Anzac Day 1988 at the Heritage Trail plaque unveiling with Murray Hyland and Pring Raynolds.
Anzac Day c 1988 – at the Heritage Trail Plaque unveiling with Murray Hyland and Pring Raynolds

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