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Old 27-04-08, 10:13
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
I have recently come back from holidays in Tasmania and while there one particular memorial inspired me to grab the camera. In Australia memorials are to be found in most country towns they take on a variety of designs from a simple Obelisk with Honour role, Victory Arches, Cenotaph and the most graceful of all to me the Lone ANZAC. All statues are carved of cast in a similar form, during ANZAC day services the honour guard assume the same stance.

Memorials did not appear until about 10 years after WW1 with many I looked at being erected in the early 1930’s.
Sometimes individual memorials erected by the families are just as moving. Here's an NZ one for a Son, Trooper Jordan, of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, lost at "the Dardenelles", obviously an early epitaph as the term Dardenelles was soon replaced by Galipolli as reports of the campaign became better known at home.
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