ContributorCommunity HistoryDescriptionImage taken of the Mount Lawley Inglewood War Memorial featuring the original celtic cross. There are windmills in the background, and the tennis courts building.Date createdc1950Height (mm)158Width (mm)203Materialssilver gelatinHistorical details
Mount Lawley/ Inglewood War Memorial is a carved, dressed Donnybrook stone obelisk on a stepped plinth in matching stone. The obelisk has been painted white and the plinth is currently (2006) painted red. There are large square bollards with stepped heads at each outer corner of the plinth approximately two metres from the obelisk and a flag pole either side of the obelisk in the flat area of the plinth. The plinth is surrounded by garden beds containing roses enclosed on the outside by a low masonry border painted dark green. There are low square newels with segmented heads at the corners of the border where they open to allow access to the obelisk.
Bronze plaques commemorating the fallen are located on the lower sections of the north and east faces of the obelisk. The plaque on the northern face is inset within a carved moulding and reads:
In Grateful Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives For Our Freedom The First World War 1914 – 1918 The Second World War 1939 – 1945 Malaya 1948-60 Korea 1950-53 Borneo 1963-66 Vietnam 1962-72 The rising sun motif of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces is set above.
The plaque on the west face is set in a square recess and lists the names of local residents who fell during WWI under the heading: In Grateful Memory Of The Men of Mt Lawley and Inglewood Who Fell In The Great War 1914-1918 Our Glorious Dead
The south and east faces contain relief carvings of a shield with a cross in a moulded border. The lower section of the obelisk is divided from the upper section by a convex band of moulding. In each corner of the upper section there are faceted pilasters with moulded bases that end in a moulded finial. Above these on each face there are niches with fluted sides, each one flanked by square pilasters. The niches are supported by semi-circular moulded brackets. The top of the obelisk is stepped and crowned by a cross set on a circular moulded base.
The Memorial Gardens, which surrounds Mount Lawley Bowling Club and Mount Lawley/Inglewood War Memorial, is a planted landscape consisting primarily of Buffalo grass lawns and mature trees. The mature plantings are not formally arranged with the exception of the Canary Island Date Palms that frame the Mount Lawley/Inglewood War Memorial. Also near the Memorial is a young Norfolk Island Pine
