War Memorials in Australia

Bunyip War Memorial

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Place: Bunyip, Victoria, 3815
District: Central (VIC)
Orientation: 83 km SE of Melbourne
Location: Railway Parade and High Street
Position: 38 05 88 S     145 43 13 E
Ref: 30089

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The memorial is a granite cupola on 4 red granite columns on a granite column on a 3-stepped stone base.  The cupola is topped with a cross and the whole is surrounded by a small stone wall.  There is a metal flagpole  on the west side.

South face
On cupola
Metal insignia of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces


On obelisk below
ERECTED BY
A GRATEFUL PUBLIC
TO THE HONORED MEMORY
OF THE SOLDIERS OF
BUNYIP AND DISTRICT
WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
IN THE EUROPEAN WAR OF
1914   ---   1919
LEST WE FORGET


On section below
ALSO
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO FELL IN
WORLD WAR II. 1939 - 1945.


On section below
VIETNAM 1962_1972  TINKAM J. R.
Bronze wreath

 

 

East face
On cupola
A. I. F.


On obelisk below

  BESWICK E. E.  
  BRADSHAW S. G.  
  CARTER W.  
  CLARKIN W.  
  DAWES G.  
  DEVINE H. G.  
  DOHERTY E. F.  
  DONALD H.  
  FALLON J.  
  FITGERALD D.  
  FITGERALD J. L.  
  FITTON J.  


 

On section below

  CORBETT W.  
  DEFORREST M.  
  ELSE R. C.  
  EVANS R.  
  FITZPATRICK T. R.  
  FRAWLEY J. W.  
  FRAWLEY K. D.  


 

North face
On cupola
Metal insignia of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces


On obelisk below

  GACHIN J.  
  GREEN F. R.  
  GUNNELSON P. O.  
  GUNNELSON I. T.  
  HOLLAND W. G. S.  
  LEESON W. H. C.  
  McDONALD A. W.  
  McIVOR J. E.  
  MILLIGAN J.  
  MOORE W. H. E.  
  MYNARD C.  
  PEARSON F. F.  


 

On section below

  FREEMAN R.  
  HEAD G.  
  HOUGHTON A. H.  
  JAMES D.  
  KENNEDY J.  
  KINGHORN A.  
  LAURIE R.  

 

 

West face
On cupola
A. I. F.


On obelisk below

  PLANT L.  
  REARDON E. C.  
  SLATTERY G.  
  SLEIGH S.  
  SPENCE M.  
  STACEY E. W.  
  STREETER H.  
  TONER F.  
  WILLIAMS P.  
  WATSON A.  
  WHISTON T. J.  
  WHISTON F.  


 

On section below

  LAY W.  
  LEASK I. G.  
  NASH H. K.  
  RALPH A. J.  
  RALPH L. W.  
  SCHONWILLE H.  
  SIMPSON H. M.  


 


Information current to August 2001


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