Folks,
Following several requests to show some in-depth photos of a unique set of murals we have here in Gympie, I have great pleasure in presenting some of the highlights of the dedicated precinct known as Memorial Lane.
There will be a number of postings here, and I would appreciate if comments could be held until the series is finished, in order to keep the collection together.
The town of Gympie, in Queensland Australia, has a proud link with Australian Military History. This dates back to The Great War, when a number of the local men enlisted and went away to war. Not all returned, and their names are recorded on the stone pillars that together with the solid iron gates, form the entrance to the Memorial Lane project. On ANZAC Day these gates are decorated with the wreaths and floral tributes that show we have not forgotten their sacrifice.
The scenario of loss and remembrence continued in World War Two and Vietnam, with those names added to further stone pillars within the lane itself.
Sadly the most recent plaque was added just last year with the death of Corporal Ashley Birt. Corporal Birt was a Gympie local who was killed in Afghanistan, 2011.
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