On Friday 13th of September 1929, a letter from the Gloucester Soldiers’ Memorial Committee was debated at council for the offer of a site and a proposed clock tower to be erected at the intersection of Church, Park and Queen streets. By October 1930, the committee had purchased an alternate site between Bent and Hume Streets.
On the 20th of October, the Newcastle Morning Herald published details of the clock tower to be constructed. Less than a year later, on 20th of June 1931, the clock tower was unveiled by Brigadier-General G. Macarthur Onslow, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D.
Constructed of red-brick, concrete and stone, the tall clock tower is adorned with a large brass dedication plaque that bears an inscription for the Great War that is surrounded by an ornate frame with pediment. There are several other plaques and honour rolls for the Second World War and other conflicts that have been attached at later dates.
