The Ongaonga (or Onga Onga) First World War memorial, a granite obelisk mounted on a stepped concrete base, was dedicated on 25 April 1922. The statue of a soldier was added several years later, as were the gates leading to the memorial reserve.
It lists the same 25 men as on the nearby Anglican Church of the Good Shepherd. They are: Percy C. Wilson, Noel Shippard,James A. Littlejohn, Roland W. Guy, Samuel F. Fletcher, Rupert Collin, Richard T. Peers, Arthur Knight, Albert E. Peters, Arthur J. Evans, John W. Petersen (Peterson), Percy R. Carr, Edward Persen, Lance W. Hardy, Alfred W. Jury, Joseph Tucker, Arthur Symons, Harold J. Fletcher, Einer Pedersen, Oswald Hobbs, George Pitt, J. Connery, J. Connolly, John Crosbie and N. Hamilton.
See: Malcolm Ross, Rangeview: Memories of Ongaonga, ed. Elsa McDonald, Ongaonga, [2010], 149-50.
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