Rest and Ponder
A plaque at 20Th Battalion Memorial, standing in Cashmere. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
REST AND PONDER / ABOUT EIGHTY PACES BEHIND THIS PLAQUE IS THE MEMORIAL TO THE 19TH INFANTRY BATTALION AND ARMOURED REGIMENT / HANMER MARBLE AND BLACK ITALIAN GRANITE SYMBOLISE THOSE MEN ON FOREIGH SOIL / FREES FROM THE COUNTRIES IN WHICH THEY SERVED STAND AS SENTINELS / IN 1953 THE AREA WAS DEDICATED THIS SEAT WAS ADDED IN 1978 BY THOSE SURVIVING / LEST WE FORGET
The register’s own frame
The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.
Where it stands
The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.
In the archive
A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.
The ground under it
The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →
Around it
The reports nearby
86 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 59 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Pavement - General
Animal - Deceased
Animal - Deceased
Facility - General Request
Trees - General
General Request
Park - General Request
Park - General Request
Fallen Tree
Park - General Request
Water FountainQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at 20Th Battalion Memorial in Cashmere, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.
The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the wall. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2000. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.
This page as markdown: /plaque/91492-20th-battalion-memorial.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.