Parkville Diggers Memorial (WWI Memorial) 1925

JAGEURS, Peter Morgan

Registration number

1091175

Artist/maker

JAGEURS, Peter Morgan

Title

Parkville Diggers Memorial (WWI Memorial)

Production date

1925

Medium

marble, granite, bluestone

Dimensions (H x W x D)

550 cm (height)

Inscriptions

Front Inscription: Australian Commonwealth Military Forces / In memory of the soldiers of this district who fell in the Great War 1914-1918 (names) Back Inscription: (Names) WE DIED FOR COUNTRY; LIVE YE FOR IT

Credit line

City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

World War I, Parkville, diggers, soldiers, 1914-1918, Peter Morgan Jageurs, 1925

Summary

Location: Royal Pde and The Avenue, Parkville The memorial is a marble statue of a World War I soldier, standing easy and holding a rifle, on a grey granite pediment on a 3-stepped granite base. The monumental mason was Peter Morgan Jageurs of Jageurs & Son, Parkville who had to include the name of his son, John among the dead. In July 1916, Johns’ division was ordered to attack the German lines near the French village of Pozières. John was one of the thousands of Australians who were slaughtered during that two week battle. As the historian C E W Bean later wrote, the Pozières ridge ‘is more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth.’ The monument was erected on Sunday 4th October, 1925