Kyeburn and Kokonga war memorial

Kyeburn and Kokonga war memorial

Kyeburn and Kokonga memorial Kyeburn and Kokonga memorial Kyeburn and Kokonga memorial Kyeburn and Kokonga memorial Kyeburn and Kokonga memorial Kyeburn and Kokonga memorial

Kyeburn and Kokonga war memorial located in Swinburn Cemetery. It appears that the memorial is on a new base, with the old base dumped rather unceremoniously down the bank.

Transcript

FIRST SIDE:
Erected by the residents of Kyeburn and Kokonga to the memory of their fallen soldiers who paid the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914-1918 THEIR DUTY DONE Unveiled April 1920

There is a link death cannot sever
Fond remembrance lasts forever.

SECOND SIDE:
Lieut. P. Logan
Corp. A. Strode
Corp. W.H.Crawford
Corp. J.Mathewson

THIRD SIDE:
Privates E. Coyle
D. Healy
C. R Sullivan

FOURTH SIDE:
Privates J. Taylor
J. D. Cathro
J.G. Crutchley

WORLD WAR II 1939-1945
In Grateful Remembrance
Gunner J.H. Reid
Aircraftsman D.M. Mathewson.

There is also a brass plaque in the Presbyterian Church at Kokonga:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
In loving memory of
Donald Meldrum Mathewson
John Henry Reid
Who laid down their lives for King and Country in World War 1939-1945 "Faithful unto death their name liveth evermore"
Erected by their Relatives.

Site Style Ornamentation Unveiling Date No of Dead
  Plinth Urn 25-April-1920  

Credit:

Information and top image courtesy Joe Enright, 2008

Other images courtesy Bruce Comfort, 2011

Find out more about the people listed on this memorial on the Auckland Museum's Cenotaph website

How to cite this page: 'Kyeburn and Kokonga war memorial', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/kyeburn-and-kokonga-war-memorial, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Nov-2011

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