The Dudley District War Memorial on Bedford Road, 5 kilometres southwest of Inglewood, was originally located in front of the old school (between the tennis courts and the ‘new’ school) on a concrete pad with concrete corner posts and chains. Approval for construction of the monument was granted by the Taranaki Education Board in October 1919 and it was moved around 1962 when the new school was built.
A Second World War memorial consisting of a marble plaque on the western end of the school baths was erected when they were constructed in 1950. The baths were demolished in 2009 and WWII names added on a new panel to the WWI memorial. New WWI panels were also added in September 2009.
Front panel inscription:
ERECTED / BY THE RESIDENTS OF / DUDLEY ROAD / IN HONOUR OF THE MEN / OF THE DISTRICT WHO SERVED / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918
Left side panel:
Killed in Action
L.Cp. U. Broadmore L. Cp. D. Todd
Pvt. C. Kennedy
Tpr. H. A. Rusling
Pvt. G. Buchanan
Rfl. L. F. Broadmore
Pvt. A. C. Bridgeman
Pvt. H. H. Codd
Rfl. N. S. Egarr
Died of Sickness
Pvt. Jose Hodges
Right side panel:
Returned to New Zealand
Capt. H. [Harry] W. Kennedy M. C.
Pvt. J. [Jose] E. Hodges
Dvr. B. Bishop
Dvr. F. J. Codd
" Pvt. R. F. Codd
Tpr. L. Butler
Pvt. E. Hunt
Pvt. F. [Frederick] Hodges
" A. Frost
Pvt. L. Baldwin
" T. Bishop
" E. K. Butler
" H. Bridgeman
" L. [Leonard] Hodges
" W.W. Egarr
F. Bridgeman
Rear panel - added to the obelisk in 2009 after the school baths were demolished:
Erected in Honour of Those / Who Served – 1939 - 1945
Killed in Action
Able Seaman J. [James/Jim] Honeyfield
Tpr. A. [Arthur] Bridge
Returned from Overseas
Cpl. C. [Clement] C. Fabish
Pte. G. W. [Bill] Horner
Pte. S. [Sydney] W. Cousins
Dvr. S. [Stephen G.] Rutherford
Dvr. H. M. [Malcolm] Burrows
Pte. L. [Lionel] H. Old
Pte. P. M. [Michael/Mick] Biesiek
Gnr. A. [Alfred/Max] Rutherford
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