War Memorials in Australia
Cowra Australian/Italian Friendship Memorial
Place:
Cowra, New South Wales, 2794
District:
Central Tablelands
Orientation:
Location: Fred Arnold Park, Lynch Street and Kendall Street (Mid-Western
Highway)
Position: 33 50 13 S 148 41 91 E
Ref: 20170
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The memorial is a polished red granite wall on a three-stepped polished black granite base. In the centre of the wall is an aperture in which are two bronze arms shaking hands.
There are flagpoles on the east (Australian flag) and west
(Italian flag) sides.
North face
Above aperture
"MAY WE NEVER FORGET
THE PRICE OF PEACE"
East of aperture
AUSTRALIA
PEACE
West of aperture
ITALIA
PACE
Below aperture
SEBASTIANO MONUMENT
MAYOR BRUCE
GALAZZO
ORGANISER MILLER
Below this
DEDICATED TO OUR
ENDURING FRIENDSHIP
26TH JANUARY 1997
On bottom west corner
GRANITEX
PTY. LIMITED
Black granite slab on north west corner of base
IN MEMORY OF AUSTRALIAN AND ITALIAN
SERVICE PERSONNEL WHO DIED DURING WWII,
TO THOSE WHO WORKED AND WERE INTERNED
AT THE COWRA PRISONER OF WAR CAMP
AND IN RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION
OF THE VERY SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL,
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO
AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY BY THE ITALIAN PEOPLE.
Incised in the western bronze arm
KOLOZSY -
1996
Information current to August 2002