Place: Bonnie Doon, Victoria, 3720
District: Northeast (VIC)
Orientation: 51 km SE of Euroa
Location: In Parkland off Maroondah Highway opposite Phillip Street
Position: 37 01 59 S     144 51 28 E
Ref: 30044

The memorial is a marble statue of a World War I digger standing easy and holding an unbayoneted rifle. It stands on a grey granite obelisk on a 2-stepped concrete base. It is bounded by a granite post and steel chain fence.  There is a flag pole on the east side and a WWI mortar with capped barrel on the north side.

A contract was entered into with Corben & Sons, Fitzroy for construction of the memorial to be completed by February 1921. The cost was £400 to £500.

North face
THE GREAT WAR
Insignia of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
1914       1918

BONNIE DOON'S
TRIBUTE OF LOVE
AND GRATITUDE TO
HER GLORIOUS DEAD
AND TO HER RETURNED
MEN WHO FOUGHT TO
KEEP OUR EMPIRE FREE

West face
OUR RETURNED
S^ISTER E. L. FORSYTH
N^URSE F. C. FORSYTH
    L^IEUT A. W. FRIDAY  M.C
         " J. N. C. HUTCHINSON
      2^ND L^IEUT R. H. HALLIGAN
            D.C.M;  M.M;  M.S.M
S^GT J. ARBUTHNOT  
      "  J. W. ARBUTHNOT  
"  T. J. FOLKS      
      S^GT F^R J. WOODBRIDGE
C^PL W. H. DOLLING  
  "  D. A. KIERNAN   
                 "  W. R. STEVENSON. M.M   
B^DR F. W. JURY      
 L.C^PL P. E. DOLLING
      "     J. D. HALLIGAN  
      "     C. JURY             
           "     T. LONERGAN         
      "     A. J. PEERS       
    "     D. H. POLLOCK
 D^VR   R. P. ALDOUS
    P^TE   G. ANDERSON   
"     A. D. BLACK
 "     F. J. BLACK  
           "     E. C. T. BRUNSDON
"     H. BUXTON   
 "     A. F. CLIFF    
"     F. E. CLIFF

South face
OUR RETURNED
 T^PR   S. W. DAVON
         "     W. J. DOUGLASS
   P^TE   W. J. ELLIOTT
"     L. EVANS  
 D^VR   W. HARRIS  
      P^TE   J. HUTCHINSON
 G^NR   L. E. JURY   
"     N. H. JURY
P^TE   W. C. JURY
       D^VR   M. J. KENNEDY
   P^TE   W. KENNEDY
    "     T. MAXWELL
           "     T. B. M^c CLUSKY
            "     W. V. M^c CLUSKY
               "     D. C. M^c PHERSON
    D^VR   H. B. PROWD
    P^TE   R. E. PROWD
       "     E. H. SARTAIN
       "     H. W. SLATER
      "     J. SLATTERY
             "     J. STILLMAN  M.M
               "     W. E. STILLMAN
   "     F. SPLATT
       "     F. W. TERRY
                    1^ST A^IR M^EC R. V. WORSLEY
     P^TE   R. M^c VICAR

East face
OUR FALLEN
             S^GT   S. D. KENNEDY M.M
         L.C^PL   J. M. KENNEDY
T^PR    A. J. JURY 
   P^TE   H. W. JURY  
    "     A. E. FOLKS
     "     N. W. FOLKS
     C^PL    F. GARDINER
            P^TE   S. J. ARBUTHNOT
           "     W. P. M. BLACK
     "     R. A. CRAIG
     "     H. EVANS   
            "     W. R. HALLIGAN
          "     J. PLANT         
       "     J. SLATTERY
           "     A. R. STILLMAN
      "     L. B. TERRY
           "     D. E. WILLIAMS
       "     A. A. YOUNG

Bronze wreath

On section below
1939 - 1945
       P^TE  M. ARBUTHNOT
S^GT  J. FRIDAY   

Plaque on mortar
This German Trench Mortar was presented by
the BRITISH GOVERNMENT at
the request of LORD NOVAR
to Mrs ANNE F. BON of Wappin Estate
who now presents it
to the inhabitants of BONNIE DOON.
MAY 1922

Information current to August 2001

Sources:  The Inglis Collection in Australian War Memorial, AWM PR 00944  4/74

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