Toodyay War Memorial
Shire of ToodyayOn 12th June 1920 a public meeting was held in the Toodyay Road Board Chambers to discuss the raising of funds for the erection of a memorial to the soldiers of the Toodyay District. The Road Board members were asked to form a committee to achieve this goal. The following month an ANZAC Memorial Committee was formed and Charles James Cook was the Chairman. A Memorial Fund came to be established.
On 23rd April 1921 at a ballot taken by the subscribers to the Memorial Fund for the Toodyay District Soldiers’ Memorial, 89 were in favour of an obelisk and 27 in favour of an operating theatre at the local hospital.
On 4th June the Toodyay Road Board moved to beautify Toodyay Park, as the subscribers to the Memorial Fund had decided to have the Soldiers’ Memorial erected at that location. Today the park is known as the Toodyay War Memorial Park, and is bordered by Clinton Street and Anzac Avenue.
On 18th December 1921 the Governor, Sir Francis Newdegate KCMG, accompanied by Major-General Sir Talbot Hobbs and the Premier, Sir James Mitchell, and Lady Mitchell, visited Toodyay (arriving by motor-car), to open the Toodyay Soldiers’ Memorial. The obelisk, funded by public subscriptions, was designed by Messrs. Wilson and Gray of Perth, and made of polished Western Australian granite.
- Beth Frayne (2011). The Long Toodyay Chronology: Events in Toodyay's history: … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9806517-2-0
