Parkville WWI Memorial
Royal Parade and The Avenue PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE CITY
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Veterans Description for Public
Parkville WWI Memorial - Veterans Description for Public
The Parkville WWI War Memorial, at the junction of Royal Parade and The Avenue, was erected on 4th October 1925. The memorial comprises of a marble digger holding his rifle upside down in the symbolic funereal position. The statue stands on a granite pedestal the sides of which are inscribed with thirty names of the men who paid the supreme sacrifice during the First World War, with the words on a plaque: We Died For Country; Live Ye For It. The monumental mason was Peter Morgan Jaguers of Jageurs & Son, Parkville, who had to carve the name of his son, John Davitt Jageurs, among the dead. John Jageurs enlisted on 10 May 1915 in the 24th Battalion and served at Gallipoli, where he suffered shell-shock. He rejoined his unit in 1916, but was killed at Pozieres on 29 July 1916. His grave was lost in that terrible action, and he is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux memorial.
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CAMBRIDGE TERRACEVictorian Heritage Register H1606
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ST JUDES ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0014
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0095
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