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Description: en:World War 1 memorial erected by the en:Parents and Citizens Association of the school serving the en:Union Jack Gold Mining Company, several kilometers north of en:Tumbarumba, New South Wales. It commemorates those miners killed during WW1 (others joined up, but are not listed.) The school opened in October 1914 and operated until 1965. Unveilled on en:Empire Day, en:24 May, en:1922. The footings of the railings around the memorial, built by Charles Johnson, are from "hydraulic jet elevators", a patented method of moving gravel and slurry invented by Mr G.T. Heinecke, company principal. The mine operated from en:1898. Reference: See also [1]. Names listed: Bateman, Edward Jacob Diessel, Arthur Earl, William Robert Edwards, Henry John Fredericks, Charles William Gaylard, Henry Charles Goldspink, William Hamilton Heinecke, George Christmas Heinecke, Herbert Henry Horsley, Roy Lovel George McKay, Daniel Stockdale McPherson, Leonard Donald Mullins, William John Murdie, Hughie Perkins, William Henry Portors, William Power, Francis John
Title: Union Jack Mine War Memorial Tumberumba NSW
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