What is the Dead Man's Penny and why is there one in Parkes?

By Christine Little
November 9 2018 - 6:00am
100 YEARS AGO: Henry Parkes Museum volunteers Lorice White - also a member of the Parkes RSL Women's Auxiliary - and Rose Jones with Private Jacob Sydney Hansen's Dead Man's Penny. Photo: Christine Little
100 YEARS AGO: Henry Parkes Museum volunteers Lorice White - also a member of the Parkes RSL Women's Auxiliary - and Rose Jones with Private Jacob Sydney Hansen's Dead Man's Penny. Photo: Christine Little

“He died for freedom and honour” – these words were inscribed upon a memorial plaque, otherwise known as the Dead Man’s Penny, and given to families of those whose lives were lost while serving in the Great War, 1914-1918.

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