The Inglewood War Memorial is located at the junction of Rata and Matai Streets (State Highway 3) in the middle of town. Unveiled on 21 August 1924 by Lieutenant-Colonel C.H. Weston, it consists of a white marble 'sorrowing soldier' on a marble podium bearing the names of 138 men from the district who fell in the First and Second World Wars. Originally constructed to commemorate Inglewood's fallen during the Great War, the flagpole on a granite stone base behind was added in honour of the town's Second World War casualties and their names added to the original monument.
A German minenwerfer (mine-launcher), was added to the base of the memorial in the 1920s when such 'war trophies' were being distributed around the country but this was removed sometime in the 1960s and its whereabouts are unknown.
The rhododendron behind the memorial is a pre-1850 hybrid, Sir Robert Peel, planted in 1924 and reputed to be one of the largest rhododendrons in the southern hemisphere.
Inscription - front top section:
In Remembrance / of / The Men From the / Inglewood District who fell in the / Great Wars 1914-1918 / 1939-1945
Front second section (WWI)
Codd W Floyd S Hamblyn J E
Codd H H Fowler J Hamblyn T B
Corney C K Franklyn H W Hamblyn W C
Coutts W Fraser A Harmel A
Cunningham L Fraser D Hart B
Curtis K O Fougere L C Harris E J
Haslett G
Dewhirst E Goodwin E G Hendrick E L
Doherty H Goodwin T R Henderson A
Duffill G V Guilford C Henderson S
Guilford W Heal A G
Early W Hodges J
Egarr N S Hall T B Hogan W M
Hamblyn H J
Front third section (WWI)
Paterson D Prujean H Rowson C H Smith R
Parkin H Rowson S Smith W
Paul P Raynor W H Ronaldson R Sattler C L
Payne G Russell A E Reeve W Storring A N
Potroz B Russell W Stratford R
Priest A Rusling H A Smith L Symes R
Front fourth section
Their Names Live Forever
Front fifth section (WWII)
Franklyn N C Gray W J Instone N L
Franklyn W J Green E H Knight G
Gannaway A A Guilford J Knofflock C G
Gibson J D Hill R Loveday H A
Gillice M A Honeyfield H J McKeen C J
Grant I C Hudson B C McLean C J
Left side - top section (WWI)
Aisher J Burkhardt A P
Atkinson A F Burr J
Left side - second section (WWI)
Bason F Carman B
Bathurst J Carman H
Bennett H E E Cartwright L
Benefield T Caterer G F
Bridgeman A C Chapman A
Broadmore L F Chapman H
Broadmore U Chard A
Brown F R Cheyne J M
Bunyan J Clark I
Buchanan G Clough G L
Burkett F Coad T
Left side - third section (WWI)
Mather W Molloy W Old E
Marsh J E C Moody J Old H A
Marshall B McRae M Olsen A
May J Orr E
Middlemiss J Nicholson CS Orr H W
Miles A H
Left side - fourth section
Short NP [Stonemason]
Left side - fifth section (WWII)
Arthur V Brown F R Dobson E D
Arthur V T M (Sr) Budd B H Dodunski D B
Benny A H Burckett L D Douglas J B
Bertrand B L Butler I A J Dryden A E
Bradford A E Cartwright J A Evans C J
Bridge A Crush R H Evans J L
Right side - top section = blank
Right side - second section (WWI)
Hopson J Kennedy C
Hunter A Kidd A P
Hunter A H Kidd R G
Kidd S O
Inglis R Kilsby B
Jakes W Kimberley E H
James J Klenner J S
Jennings G Langley D
Jones R Laurence S T
Karalus G W Lilly B
Karalus R Luke B
Kendrick E Mather K
Right side - third section (WWI)
Taylor A Todd D Ward C R
Taylor A Vercoe P F Warren L
Taylor G Vercoe B West A J
Taylor H E West S E
Taylor L F Wilson C
Thomas A Wallace T Yorsten T E M
Right side - fourth section = blank
Right side - fifth section (WWII)
Magee A Reardon R G Whitaker E B
Marsh F A B Salisbury L A Wilson R P
Norcross P K Sargent F L Winfield C
Orr F E Schultz K O Wytkin M N
Osborne N Smeaton C R Yeates W L
Pearce T L Stimpson H B
Reed V W Thompson R
Inscription on granite stone at base of flagpole:
Erected / To the memory / Of those who / gave their lives in / World War II / 1939 - 1945
One of the above servicemen, S.E. (Sidney Ennis) West, died in the Bere Ferrers rail accident on 24 September 1917, when 10 Kiwi soldiers were killed by an oncoming express train after alighting on the wrong side of their carriage. He may also be commemorated on the Lepperton memorial.
Other Bere Ferrers dead feature on the Urenui, Uruti, New Plymouth Boys' High School and Fitzroy war memorials.
Those who fell: Inglewood's tribute (Taranaki Daily News 22 August 1924)
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