{"id":1380,"date":"2017-03-07T05:18:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2021-12-13T02:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:04:52","slug":"punchbowl-cenotaph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Punchbowl Cenotaph"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-description no-title block\">\n<div class=\"block-inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"block-content\">\n<section class=\"field field-name-field-description field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-_custom_display\">\n<h4 class=\"field-label\">Description<\/h4>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Trachyte obelisk with laurel wreath and gilt name plate. Massive sandstone column constructed of blocks in the form of a cenotaph. Dedicated to the Punchbowl soldiers who fought in the Great War, 1914-1918. Set centre road in a memorial garden. The memorial was relocated from a site closer to Punchbowl Railway Station c 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information by Sydney Trains:<\/p>\n<p>The cenotaph had originally been unveilled in 1919 at a site on the corner of Punchbowl Road and The Boulevarde, beside the railway overbridge. By the 1960s, the volume of road traffic necessitated a bridge widening. By agreement with the Punchbowl RSL, the cenotaph was relocated to the wide centre island in The Broadway in Oct\/Nov 1979. This is where it stands today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-inscription no-title block\">\n<div class=\"block-inner clearfix\">\n<div class=\"block-content\">\n<section class=\"field field-name-field-inscription field-type-text-long field-label-above view-mode-_custom_display\">\n<h4 class=\"field-label\">Inscription<\/h4>\n<p class=\"field-label\">To the Punchbowl Soldiers who fought in the Great War 1914 &#8211; 1919 Their fellow citizens raised this token of appreciation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Trachyte obelisk with laurel wreath and gilt name plate. Massive sandstone column constructed of blocks in the form of a cenotaph. Dedicated to the Punchbowl soldiers who fought in the Great War, 1914-1918. Set centre road in a memorial garden. The memorial was relocated from a site closer to Punchbowl Railway Station c 1960s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war_memorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anzac.cbcity.nsw.gov.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}