Kearsley Remembrance Garden

Anzac Day Dawn Service
Alexander Webb
Anzac Day
Alexander Webb
Cenotaph following the 2022 Anzac Day Dawn Service

Key Information

Memorial Name
Kearsley Remembrance Garden
Address

Kearsley NSW 2325

Memorial Type
Cenotaph
Conflicts
First World War, 1914–18
Second World War, 1939–45
Peacekeeping, 1947–present
Korean War, 1950–53
Malayan Emergency, 1950–60
Vietnam War, 1962–75
Indonesian Confrontation, 1963–66
Dedication Date
25 Apr 2010
Accessibility
Public

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Kearsley Community Dawn Service Committee

Australian War Memorial

Anzac Day Dawn Service
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Remembrance Day Service
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Tributes on the World War I Bench of Remembrance
Catafalque party on guard around Cenotaph
Bench of Remembrance for those killed in duty
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Governor Hurley unveiling memorial plaques
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Lost diggers honoured by NSW Governor a century on from service

Twenty soldiers from the villages of Kearsley, Edenville and Abernethy who had disappeared from the nation’s collective memory were honoured and remembered at a

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Cenotaph at Kearsley Remembrance Garden - Anzac Day 2020
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Committed to honouring our veterans in a socially distanced way

Commemorating Anzac Day in 2020 was a little different for the residents of the small villages of Kearsley and Abernethy due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a

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Commemorative plaques for Warrant Officer Francis and Corporal Wearing
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Post-World War II veterans remembered and honoured by the communities of Kearsley and Abernethy

Two veterans from the villages of Kearsley and Abernethy who served in the Australian Defence Force following World War II were today honoured at the Kearsley

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Commemorative plaques on the post-World War II Bench of Remembrance
Plaque to commemorate Warrant Officer Arthur Francis CSC OAM
Plaque to commemorate Corporal Henry 'Andy' Wearing
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Unveiling of commemorative World War II plaques
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World War II service publicly commemorated by NSW Governor

The contributions of more than 100 service men and women from the villages of Kearsley and Abernethy during World War II were today honoured and commemorated at

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Brigadier Michael Garraway AM, Dale Goldie OAM and Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC unveiling World War II memorial plaques
Dale Goldie OAM, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC and Brigader Michael Garraway AM unveiling World War II memorial plaques
Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC and Mr Dennis Wilson laying a wreath to honour and commemorate World War II service personnel
The Bench of Remembrance lists the names of those local service personnel killed in action
Wreaths laid at the cenotaph to commemorate and honour local World War II service personnel
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Kearsley Remembrance Garden
Kearsley Remembrance Garden bench
Kearsley Remembrance Garden bench
Kearsley Remembrance Garden bench
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Corporal Harold John Marris
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Corporal Marris was committed to the cause

The Kearsley Community Dawn Service Committee is a small community-based organisation committed to uncovering the identities of Lower Hunter service personnel

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Memorial plaque for Lieutenant Colonel Brian Green AM
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‘Exceptional’ army leader honoured for decades of service

A long-life devotee to the Australian Defence Force was this week afforded formal commemoration through the unveiling of an individual memorial plaque at the

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Cenotaph following the 2022 Anzac Day Dawn Service
Area of Remembrance following the 2022 Anzac Day Dawn Service
The sun rises over the Area of Remembrance
Catafalque party following the 2022 Anzac Day Dawn Service
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Plaques unveiled by Dale Goldie OAM, Major Daniel Lawrence and Minister for Veterans David Elliott MP
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22 soldiers publicly recognised a century on from their service

For more than a century their stories of service and sacrifice have been hidden from public view, but recently 22 men from the villages of Kearsley, Abernethy

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