Mandurah War Memorial - Halls Head, Western Australia - Non-Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Mandurah War Memorial is located on the western bank of Peel Inlet opposite the Mandurah townsite, it is located on a slight rise and is visible from across the Inlet and from the land, The memorial is aligned so the rays of the rising sun on ANZAC Day shine down the centre of the pillars.
On the pillars are etched the words from the poem "At the going down of the sun"

Type of Memorial: Multi-War Memorial Wars mentioned (Multi-war only): Sudan, Boxer Rebellion, South Africa, World War I World War II, Korea, Malaya, Borneo Malay Peninsular, Vietnam, Thailand Somalia, East Timor, Afghanistan In Honor Of: Australian and New Zealand personnel Marker Text: I crouched in a shallow trench on that hell of exposed beaches...steeply rising foothills bare of cover... a landscape pockmarked with war’s inevitable litter... piles of stores... equipment...ammunition...and the weird contortions of death sculptured in Australian flesh... I saw the going down of the sun on that first ANZAC Day... the chaotic maelstrom of Australia’s blooding. I fought in the frozen mud of the Somme... in a blazing destroyer exploding on the North sea... I fought on the perimeter at Tobruk... crashed in the flaming wreckage of a fighter in New Guinea...lived with the damned in the place cursed with the name Changi. I was your mate... the kid across the street... the med. student at graduation... he mechanic in the corner garage... the baker who brought you bread... the gardener who cut your lawn... the clerk who sent your phone bill. I was an Army private... a Naval commander... an Air Force bombardier. no man knows me... no name marks my tomb, for I am every Australian serviceman... I am the Unknown Soldier . I died for a cause I held just in the service of my land... that you and yours may say in freedom... I am proud to be an Australian Date of dedication: 18th April 2005 Who Put it Here?: City of Mandurah Description of Memorial: The memorial is located at Hall Park, Leighton Place,Western Foreshore, Halls Head.

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Date Logged Log   01/01/2023 jinta29 visited it