User:AYArktos~enwiki/sandbox/War Memorials in Australia

Monuments

Most World War 1 monuments in Victoria and New South Wales cost between £100 and £1000, one in five between £1000 and £2000, and a few more than that. (It has been estimated that £100 in the 1920s was roughly equivalent to $8000 (Australian) in 1998.)

Types of monuments:

buildings

for example, hall, clock tower, swimming pool

Clock tower in Boorowa

structure

for example, rotunda, gate

Rotunda in Avoca, Victoria Arch in Wagga Wagga - some controversy ove erection [1]

World War I
memorial sculpture on the external wall of the
World War II
Shrine of Memories at the Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane, Queensland

scupture

for example, soldier, representation of peace

Braidwood, New South Wales: soldier

Myrtleford, Victoria:

Myrtleford, Victoria, April 2005: statue of soldier on war memorial.

Myrtleford, Victoria, April 2005: war memorial.

Second Boer War Memorial - Brisbane, Queensland

Second Boer War Memorial - Brisbane, Queensland

obelisk

Tilba Tilba

Major municipal monuments

for example

• Sydney: ANZAC War Memorial completed in 1934
• Melbourne: Shrine of Remembrance dedicated in 1934
• Brisbane: Shrine of Remembrance dedicated in 1930
• Australian War Memorial the national memorial located in Canberra

External references

• Register of war memorials in WA

• Register of war memorials in NSW

• An overview of Queensland memorials

• information about major war memorials

• Inglis, K.S. assisted by Jan Brazier (1998). Sacred places : war memorials in the Australian landscape. Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-5228-4752-8.

• Billett, R.S. (Bill) (1999). War trophies : from the First World War 1914-1918. Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, NSW, Australia. ISBN 0-8641-7977-4.