WW2, 50 years - Speers Point, NSW, Australia
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Grahame Cookie
S 32° 57.763 E 151° 37.094
56H E 370861 N 6351998
On the platform of a captured German mortar from World War One is Community Commemorative plaque for 50 years since the end of World War Two.
Waymark Code: WMYPDP
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 07/06/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member TeamBPL
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The commemorative plaque is on the western side of the sandstone rectangular plinth that supports the 25 cm Minenwerfer Mortar, captured by the 17th Battalion in August 1918 and reads: 

	    [Australia Remembers
		 1945-1995]
		In Honour of
	 the Men & Women who served
	Australia in Time of Conflict
	     During World War II
		LEST WE FORGET

More information can found for the Mortar, at the Australian War Memorial website:Speers Point

Visited: 1230, Monday, 2 April, 2018

Subject: Country

Commemoration: 1995

Date of Founding: 1945

Date of Commemoration: 11/11/1995

Address:
Speers Point Park, Speers Point, NSW, 2284, Australia

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