Place: Cobram, Victoria, 3644
District: Northern Country
Orientation: 112 km NE of Echuca
Location: Punt Road and William Street, outside Cobram Civic Centre
Position: 37 55 12 S     145 39 07 E
Ref: 30037

The memorial is a polished black granite monolith on a red granite base on a podium paved with grey granite blocks. There are red granite steps on three sides. On the north-west side of the podium are two flagpoles.

West face
COBRAM AND DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF
THOSE WHO GAVE THEMSELVES IN WAR
THAT WE MIGHT LIVE IN PEACE AND FREEDOM

"LEST WE FORGET"

There are two Lone Pine memorials in the gardens surrounding the memorial, one on the south side and one on the north.
Each has a plaque.

Plaque on south side
White and red colour patch
ALEPPO PINE
(PINUS BRUTIA)
FROM THE
ORIGINAL LONE PINE
ON GALLIPOLI
GROWN IN THE JUBILEE YEAR 1965
PLANTED IN MEMORY OF
DEPARTED COMRADES
"LEST WE FORGET"
Insignia of Legacy

Plaque below
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED BY
MAJOR DOUG HUNTER
8/13 MOUNTED VICTORIAN RIFLES
ON ANZAC DAY 1981
TO REPLACE THE ORIGINAL
TREE MENTIONED ABOVE

Plaque on north side
White and red colour patch
ALEPPO PINE
(PINUS BRUTIA)
GROWN FROM THE SEEDS
OBTAINED FROM
LONE PINE ON GALLIPOLI
PLANTED BY
PAUL M^cKAY
PRESIDENT COBRAM R.S.L.
ON ANZAC DAY 1981
IN MEMORY OF
DEPARTED COMRADES
"LEST WE FORGET"
Insignia of R.S.L.

Information current to November 2000

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