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Stolen Years: Australian prisoners of war - Sandakan

70% of the number of Australians taken prisoner during the Pacific War - 15,395 - were captured during the Malayan Campaign. First held at Singapore's Changi prison, these

Author: Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch

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Kalinga Honour Gates

The Kalinga Honour Gates are four large piers marked 1914, Honour Gates, 1919, with plaques.

Author: Mary Scully

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1952 Soudan Contingent Memorial Plaque

On 11 July 1952, the Townsville Daily Bulletin reported that on Saturday 21 June 1952 a memorial plaque was unveiled by the General Officer Commanding Officer Eastern Command

Author: Patrick Bourke

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The Arch of Victory and the Avenue of Honour

Almost 4,000 men and women from the Ballarat district enlisted for World War I. Of this number, 528 (or 1 in every 8) were killed in action or died of wounds.

Author: Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch

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St Andrew's Church Honour Roll 1914-1918

The St Andrew's Church Honour Roll 1914-1918 is a marble plaque with engraved lettering set in the outside wall near the main entrance of the church.

Author: Roderick Stewart

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Corporal Walter Laishley Spier Memorial

The Corporal Walter Laishley Spier Memorial consists of a polished red granite cross with a base on a larger rough-cut stone, set on a concrete slab within a low iron railing.

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Hunters Hill Council Honour Rolls

The Hunters Hill Council Honour Rolls are a series of brass plaques with names engraved and gilded, located in the main meeting room in the Hunters Hill Council offices.

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War Memorial Tree, Hunters Hill

The Hunters Hill War Memorial Tree is a large Queensland Box tree. It has a brass plaque attached to a small sandstone rock immediately in front of it.

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Garden of the Grieving Mother

Of the 3,801 World War 1 service men and women commemorated in the Ballarat Avenue of Honour, 1 in 5 made the ultimate sacrifice, giving their lives.

Author: Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch

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George Devine Treloar

George Treloar, gentleman of fortune, was born 23 April 1884 in Ballarat, Victoria.

Author: Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch

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Hunters Hill War Memorial

The Hunters Hill War Memorial is a tapered granite pillar with a lamp on top. The whole structure sits on three sandstone steps.

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Harold "Pompey" Elliott

Harold Elliott was born on 19 June 1878 and grew up in poverty on his parents' farm at West Charlton. 

Author: Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch