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These Trees Were Planted / in Memory of the Men

A plaque at 19Th Battalion Memorial, standing in Cashmere. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.

THESE TREES WERE PLANTED / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF / THE 19th INFANTRY BATTALION / AND ARMOURED REGIMENT WHO / FELL DURING THE 1939–45 WAR
The ground
19Th Battalion Memorial
The suburb
Cashmere
The year
2007, the register’s commission
Rides on
rock
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at 19Th Battalion Memorial

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

72 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 45 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - General Canterbury · 8 June 2026
Facility - General Request Harry Ell Track 125 Victoria Park Road, Cashmere · 16 April 2026
General Request CJ4W+22 Victoria Park Clearing, Cashmere · 12 April 2026
Park - General Request 113–125 Victoria Park Rd · 12 April 2026
Fallen Tree CJ4W+22 Victoria Park Clearing, Cashmere · 28 March 2026
Fallen Tree Harry Ell Track 125 Victoria Park Road, Cashmere · 19 February 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 9 January 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at 19Th Battalion Memorial in Cashmere, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the rock. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2007. 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/91499-19th-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.