18. War Memorials at St. John’s

Inside nearly all the places of worship in Launceston and surrounding districts, there have been placed honour boards, plaques, windows and other memorials to commemorate those members of each congregation who fought and in many cases, gave their lives, in the several wars in which our countrymen have taken part. 
In St. John’s, there are several war memorial objects and plaques, and links to more details on those items can be followed below. They include a memorial plaque to fallen soldiers of World War I, a book desk (book stand) which is an Anzac memorial gift, the carillon, which is a peace thanksgiving installed after World War 2, and the Great War Honour Roll which has a troubled history, being put together to replace a Great War Honour Board which was somehow lost or destroyed in the renovations of the early 1980s. The most visible and significant of these memorials is, of course, the magnificent mosaic interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ in the Sanctuary. 
There are also individual memorials for St. John’s people who died in the conflicts in which Australia served.

Mosaic reredos – memorial to the WWI fallen
Great War Honour Roll 
Memorial plaque – World War I fallen soldiers
Carillon – end of World War II peace thanksgiving
Book desk – Anzac memorial ~ Thomas Keith Robson ~ James Beck D.F.C. ~ Neil Stewart Gill ~ Charles Augustus Littler