Memorials and Honour Roles

[Rusty]

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. Here is a question to forum members of different lands how do your countries remember the fallen?

The following photos were taken in Stanley Tasmania this statue is carved in white marble the detail of uniform is amazing, this statues eyes are so lifelike for a stone carving.

A question for the historians all these Lone ANZAC statues have a single tree stump behind their right leg, does this represent Lone Pine?