Artist
Artist: F Arnold
Date Installed
Installed 1947
Location
Waterloo Second World War Memorial by F Arnold
Tag
Tag: War Memorial

New South Wales, Australia

Artwork Description

At the busy junction of Elizabeth St and Kellick St, in the heart of Waterloo, nestles the Tobruk Reserve – a tiny place of peace and reflection. In the centre of the reserve, surrounded by landscaped gardens, stands the Waterloo World War II Memorial.

This red granite memorial pillar stands on a simple square plinth set into a circular stone base. It is protected by a corniced sandstone roof supported by four sandstone columns. The pillar is adorned on two sides by granite and sandstone vases.

Copper plaques are fixed to three sides of the memorial pillar, listing the names of soldiers lost between 1939 and 1945. On the front face of the pillar is another plaque, with the following inscription:

They whom this memorial commemorates were numbered amongst those who, at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, faced danger and finally passed out of the fight of men by in the path of duty, making self-sacrifice, giving up their lives that we might live in freedom. For those who come after see to it that their Names be not Forgotten.

A plaque on the memorial’s base shows that it was ‘Erected by the Council of the Municipality of Waterloo, M.V. Neilson, Mayor 1947’. A partially obscured inscription on the plinth names the sculptor as F. Arnold.

ARTIST

Frederick Arnold and his sons were master monumental sculptors and masons.

Arnold opened a monument masonry works in 1879 on the corner of Wellington and Regent streets, Sydney.

In 1892, the works were moved to Paddington and by 1918 the firm had relocated to 53 Regent St Sydney.

Records in the Mitchell Library show the business traded until 1981.

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