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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

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Sir Albert Coates

Born on 28 January 1895, Albert Coates was the eldest of seven children of the Coates family of Mt Pleasant, Ballarat. He left school at eleven years of age and worked for

Author: Western Front Association Central Victoria Branch

Ballina Lighthouse & Lismore Surf Club
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Ballina Lighthouse & Lismore Surf Life Saving Club

With the outbreak of WW2, every able bodied member of the Ballina Lighthouse & Lismore Surf Life Saving Club joined the Australian Defence Forces. 139 men in total enli

Author: 41st Battalion Association

Ballina RSL Sub-Branch War Memorial
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Ballina RSL Sub-Branch War Memorial

The Ballina RSL Sub-Branch War Memorial was originally constructed and dedicated in 1993 to replace Ballina's earlier memorial cairn at the Ballina War Memorial Pool.

Author: 41st Battalion Association