Yandina Cenotaph
Railway Street and Stevens Street
besides railway station
31km South West of Tewantin
Yandina QLD 4561
This draped obelisk with crossed rifles is set on a typical 'Petrie' base and constructed out of Helidon sandstone on a granite base, and topped with a sandstone shroud. Crossed rifles carved out of sandstone are mounted above the main World War I face. The lettering is lead on marble tablets. The memorial stands in in the southwest corner of the park.
- Inscription
Centre plaque reads: In memory of the men of Yandina and district who laid down their lives serving their King and Country during the Great War 1914-1919. Their name liveth forevermore.
Side plaque reads: In Memory of men who fell in World War II, 1939–1945, and lists 15 names.
Two other side plaques list 19 names.Refer to additional images on this page.
- Conflicts commemorated
- First World War, 1914–1918
- Second World War, 1939–1945
- Memorial type
- Column/obelisk/pillar
- Additional information
The monument was built by A Petrie and Son of Brisbane, Queensland. The Cenotaph was hit by a runaway truck. When the Cenotaph was repaired after the accident it was re-assembled incorrectly and the main face pointed in the wrong direction until the recently-completed refurbishment, when the alignment was corrected so that the main face commemorating those who fell in World War 1 faces along Railway Street as it did originally.
- Recorded by
- Dennis Stocks
- Date recorded
- 25 March 2009