Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat

Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat
Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat
	The seat in 2014
Location	103 Stanley Terrace, Taringa, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°29′21″S152°58′49″E / 27.4892°S 152.9803°E Coordinates: 27°29′21″S152°58′49″E / 27.4892°S 152.9803°E
Design period	1940s – 1960s (post-World War II)
Built	post August 1941
Architect	Wells Family
Queensland Heritage Register
	Official name: Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	21 October 1992
Reference no.	600338
Significant period	Post-World War II recovery (1940s–1960s); (historical, fabric)
Significant components	seating
Builders	Wells Family
	Location of Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat in Queensland Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat (Australia)

Last updated May 02, 2019

Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat is a heritage-listed memorial at 103 Stanley Terrace, Taringa, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by the Wells Family in honour of their son Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells. It was built some time after August 1941 by Wells Family. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.^[1]

A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for the memory of something, usually a deceased person or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains and parks.

Taringa is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south-west of the Brisbane CBD. Taringa is mostly residential, except for a small number of commercial buildings mostly clustered along Moggill Road. It is a popular neighbourhood among the students of the University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology because of its proximity to the universities and to Brisbane city.

City of Brisbane Local government area in Queensland, Australia

The City of Brisbane is a local government area that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Brisbane is located in the county of Stanley and is the largest city followed by Ipswich with bounds in part of the county. Unlike LGAs in the other mainland state capitals, which are generally responsible only for the central business districts and inner neighbourhoods of those cities, the City of Brisbane administers a significant portion of the Brisbane metropolitan area, serving almost half of the population of the Brisbane Greater Capital City Statistical Area. As such, it has a larger population than any other local government area in Australia. The City of Brisbane was the first Australian LGA to reach a population of more than one million. Its population is roughly equivalent to the populations of Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory combined. In 2016–2017, the council administers a budget of over $3 billion, by far the largest budget of any LGA in Australia.

History

Geoffrey Lloyd Wells was born on 26 June 1915 at Wallingford, Taringa, the son of Henry Charles Wells and his wife Elsie Irene (née Lloyd).^[2]^[3]

During World War II he enlisted in Brisbane in the Royal Australian Air Force.^[4] Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells was shot down over in a Wellington X9700 over Roggel, the Netherlands on 17 August 1941 during active service.^[5] He was buried in the Jonkerbos War Cemetery near the town of Nijmegen located in a woodland area known as Jonkers Bosch.^[6]^[7]

Brisbane is the capital of and the most populated city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of approximately 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland metropolitan region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.6 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the historic European settlement and is situated inside a peninsula of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs)—most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is "Brisbanite" or "Brisbanian".

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). It operates the majority of the ADF's fixed wing aircraft, although both the Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy also operate aircraft in various roles. It directly continues the traditions of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), formed on 22 October 1912. The RAAF provides support across a spectrum of operations such as air superiority, precision strikes, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, air mobility, space surveillance, and humanitarian support.

Roggel is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Leudal.

This stone seat, which is set into a stone fence along Stanley Terrace, was constructed by his family as a memorial to him. The seat was erected by his family in the corner of their property, as a memorial and for public use.^[1]

Description

The seat is of rustic design, constructed of slabs of Brisbane tuff. It is set into the front garden wall, also of tuff, fronting Stanley Terrace.^[1]

Brisbane tuff is a type of rock, formed as a result of a volcanic eruption. As the name suggests, it is a type of tuff found in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The back of the seat is butterfly-shaped and has a centrally placed metal plaque. In addition to the details of Wells' death, the plaque bears the quote from Winston Churchill: "never has so much been owed by so many to so few".^[1]

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a British politician, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was instead a member of the Liberal Party.

Timber slats forming the seat have been reconstructed. The style of the fence above the surrounding wall has changed since the seat's construction. However, together with the adjacent shady jacaranda tree, the fence and seat combine to create a picturesque resting spot for passing pedestrians.^[1]

Heritage listing

Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.

It is illustrative of the sustained tradition of memorialising the war dead, which had been established in Queensland at the turn of the 20th century with the South African War of 1899–1902, and popularised during and immediately following the First World War (1914–1918).^[1]

The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage.

The Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat at Taringa is a rare private memorial erected for public benefit.^[1]

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.

It is illustrative of the sustained tradition of memorialising the war dead, which had been established in Queensland at the turn of the 20th century with the South African War of 1899–1902, and popularised during and immediately following the First World War (1914–1918).^[1]

The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.

It makes an original and attractive contribution to the streetscape, and is significant as an unusual form of war memorial.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat (entry 600338)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
↑ "Family Notices". The Queenslander . 17 July 1915. p. 9. Retrieved 26 November 2014– via National Library of Australia.
↑ Queensland Registrar-General, Index of Deaths 1942/SS340
↑ A9300: WELLS GEOFFREY LLOYD : Service Number – 404077. Canberra: National Archives of Australia . Retrieved 25 November 2014.
↑ A705, 163/63/86: WELLS Geoffrey Lloyd – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 404077. Canberra: National Archives of Australia . Retrieved 25 November 2014.
↑ "WELLS, GEOFFREY LLOYD". Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Retrieved 25 November 2014.
↑ "Jonkerbos War Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Retrieved 25 November 2014.

Attribution

This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).

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[qhr-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat (entry 600338)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

[2] "Family Notices". The Queenslander . 17 July 1915. p. 9. Retrieved 26 November 2014– via National Library of Australia.

[3] Queensland Registrar-General, Index of Deaths 1942/SS340

[4] A9300: WELLS GEOFFREY LLOYD : Service Number – 404077. Canberra: National Archives of Australia . Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[5] A705, 163/63/86: WELLS Geoffrey Lloyd – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 404077. Canberra: National Archives of Australia . Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[6] "WELLS, GEOFFREY LLOYD". Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Retrieved 25 November 2014.

[7] "Jonkerbos War Cemetery". Commonwealth War Graves Commission . Retrieved 25 November 2014.