Boulder from a Korean battlefield
KOREAN WAR 1950 -1953
"You wonder if the war is worth the price"
Boer War 1899 - 1902
"Shoring up his failing strength"
Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop A.C., Kt., C.M.G., O.B.E., K.C.S.J., M.S. (Melb), F.R.C.S. (Eng), F.R.A.C.S., F.A.C.S., L.L.D. (Melb) (Hon.), D. Sc (Punjabi) (Hon.)
Memorial to supreme sacrifice, courage and devotion
This memorial is in memory of the Australian Service Nurses.
"Back to Beaufort"
Beautiful weather favoured the "Back to Beaufort"celebrations yesterday, and more than 1,000 visitors were attracted to the town, which was gaily decorated. In the afternoon.
Volley fired by returned soldiers
In the presence of a large and representative gathering, which included visitors from Glen lnnes and Guyra and neighbourhood, an addition to the Ben Lom
Malvern War Memorial
On 19 March 1922, 3000 people attended the unveiling of
Cenotaph relocated without Digger statue
The statue was erected as part of the Chinchilla War Memorial, unveiled on 30 January 1919 by the Governor of Queensland, Major Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams, GCMG, CB.
Large and distinguished attendance
Sir George Le Hunte, Governor of South Australia, performed with due ceremony on the 6th June 1904 the unveiling of an equestrian statue in bronze raised to the memory, of South
Offering a helping hand to his mate
To complement the Avenues of Honour, an appeal was undertaken by the Rose Park Improvement Association in 1919 to enable the construction of a monument, on which will be inscrib
720 men of the Battalion were killed in action and 1,557 were wounded
The 50th Battalion was raised in Egypt in March 1916 as part of the “doubling” of the AIF.
Chipped and broken by shot, they bear the marks of their wartime experience.
5,000 people were present in 1938 when the crosses, set in niches in the Government House wall at the rear of the memorial, were unveiled and the offici
Wooden cross from "Australia's most sacre acre"
This shrine houses the wooden cross erected to mark the common grave in which many of those killed in the 1916 offensive were buried.
Pretty village, named after General Birdwood
This pretty village, named after Gen. Birdwood, was gay with bunting and bristling with excitement in March 1920, when Gen.
Ten gallant men from the Mallala district
Ten gallant men from the Mallala district gave their lives during the war.
Made from handmade bricks from the Bliss Brickworks in Bathurst
The Carillon was constructed in 1933 as a memorial to the men of Bathurst and District who served in World War One.
Only 5 plaques remain today
This Plaque commemorates the Cowangie Avenue of Honour planted 2nd August 1918 by the Cowangie Progress Association as a mark of honour to the men from Cowangie who enlisted for
1500 Pilots pass through the Flying Training School
Memorial to the more than 1500 pilots who passed through the No 5 Service Flying Training School conducted, here at Uranquinty, by the R.A.A.F.
Showered with daisies gathered by “her boys”
In an unmarked grave at Woronora Memorial Park rests a heroine of WWI, registered nurse Alice Cashin, the first Australian to be awarded a Royal Red Cross plus the bar to that m
"Exceptional Gallantry and Devotion to Duty"
LT ALBERT BORELLA, VC, MM, MID
Born in Borung Victoria on 7th August 1881 Died in Albury New South Wales on 7th February 1968
Creation of Knox drinking fountain monument refenced in a book
The creation of this monument is referenced in "Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape" written by Kenneth Stanley Inglis on page 42 (3rd Ed. 2008).
'Spirit of Sacrifice' - National Soldiers Memorial, Adelaide
In 1919, the South Australian government decided that the state needed a memorial to commemorate the Victory of the Great War 1914-1918, the supreme and personal sacri
Tribute to Fortitude and Bravery of the Crew of HMAS Perth
HMAS Perth was built at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Amphion on 15 June 1936.
Captured 12 Guns and 30 Prisoners
ALBERT (ALBY) DAVID LOWERSON VC 1896 - 1945