Place: Hobart, Tasmania, 7000
District: South East, Huon & Channel and Lower Derwent Valley
Orientation: State capital
Location: Memorial Corner, Anglesea Barracks, Davey Street
Position: 42 53 36 S     147 19 65 E
Ref: 70070

The memorial is a rough cut red granite pillar.

Bronze plaque on top of pillar, south side
Colour patch
THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY
THE 12TH BATTALION ASSOCIATION TO MARK THE
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMATION OF
THE 2/12 AUST INFANTRY BATTALION A I F
ALSO THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FORMATION OF
THE 1ST 12TH AUST. INFANTRY BATTALION A I F
AND AS A MEMORIAL TO
THE MEN WHO SERVED WITHIN THEIR RANKS
UNVEILED BY
HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL
SIR PHILLIP BENNETT A. C., K. B. E., D. S. O.
GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA
ON SUNDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER 1989. 

Plaque below

Information current to August 2001

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