Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
From the Queensland Heritage Register.
The Charleville War Memorial was unveiled on October 9 1924 by the Queensland Governor Sir Matthew Nathan. It is thought to have been designed by George Brockwell Gill and cost £1000. The predominantly marble memorial honours the 310 local men who served in the First World War, including the 40 fallen.
The memorial was ‘Erected by the citizens of Charleville and district, and Charleville sub-branch of the Returned Services League’. The cast iron fence was subsequently erected some time between 1925 and 1933.
In 1864, the Queensland Government Gazette proclaimed the boundaries of the Warrego Pastoral District. This followed the arrival of farmers from New South Wales in search of sheep runs on the Upper Warrego. The town of Charleville was gazetted in 1868 and laid out by government surveyor W A Tully in the usual grid form, allowing for the roads to