1 MELBOURNE TOWN HALL HONOUR ROLL Serving their country An Honour Roll in the foyer of the administration building in Melbourne’s Town Hall is dedicated to Officers and Employees who served in both World Wars. 100 Swanston St. For tours, visit www.thatsmelbourne.com.au. 100 places
2 ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL A place of remembrance A Melbourne landmark in the heart for 100 years of the city. The Cathedral contains 100 places for 100 years - Victorian War Heritage Trails MELBOURNE CITY a number of memorials and plaques commemorates the Anzac Centenary. An App and a series of dedicated to notable people complementary brochures guide visitors to important war and events in Australia’s military memorials across Victoria by way of eight tour routes from VICTORIAN WAR HERITAGE TRAILS history; from colonial times to North- West Victoria to Central Melbourne to Gippsland. more recent conflicts. Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts. The free App may be downloaded via the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. The brochures and fold out maps 3 THE KINGS DOMAIN Walking Australia’s war history This trail is short in distance, but rich in military history. detailing the eight tour routes may be downloaded at Established in 1854, this parkland Sites such as the Victoria Barracks are architecturally http://anzaccentenary.vic.gov.au surrounds the Government House impressive, dating back to the earliest days of the Colony. Reserve, home of the Governors of The Anzac Centenary provides an opportunity to Victoria, the Shrine of Remembrance Stand in the War Cabinet Room and imagine the tension acknowledge Australia’s contribution to war and the impacts and Shrine Reserve. The sculptures and as critical decisions were made such as the deployment of it had on our nation. 100 places for 100 years enables us to reflect on Anzac traditions and consider the contribution memorials in the park tell a fascinating troops overseas and the need to defend Australia’s shores. story of Australia’s war heritage. of all Victorians. Between 2014 and 2018 Victoria will join Kings Domain, St Kilda Rd. Nurses, often the unsung heroes, are twice recognised: in the Edith global commemorations to mark the centenary of the Cavell Memorial and the WWI Nurses Memorial, with its on-going First World War. THE BOER WAR MEMORIAL Honour the brave role in nurse education. The Boer War (1899-1902) called for The parkland of Kings Domain is redolent with war history: soldiers from far-flung reaches of the statues commemorating outstanding leaders and memorials to Empire – about 16,000 Australians the grim battles fought in Greece in WWII and the courage of answered the call. More than 500 died the people of Malta. and their names are immortalised on an impressive monument, erected by The focal point of your journey is, of course, the Shrine of the 5th Contingent Victorian Mounted Remembrance, the supreme war memorial in Victoria. Set in the Rifles Regiment in 1904. Shrine Reserve with hundreds of trees planted as memorials to Cnr St Kilda Rd & Government House Dr. army, navy and airforce and Commonwealth countries, the Shrine honours all who have fought in Australia’s name. Based symbolically STATUE OF EDWARD ‘WEARY’ DUNLOP Not ‘weary’ at all… on a tomb, the Shrine records the names of all 114,000 Victorian Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop was servicemen and women who enlisted in WWI. It is a place of a skilled surgeon, and demonstrated contemplation and reflection; a site for solemn commemoration. outstanding courage and leadership as a Japanese prisoner of war in WWII. Peter Corbett’s 1995 bronze sculpture incorporates metal spikes used on the Burmese-Thailand Railway. St Kilda Rd. KING ST LONSDALE ST
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MACARTHUR BOURKE ST ST SPRING ST I ON ST RUSSELL ST 3 THE KINGS DOMAIN (continued) 4 SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE Lest we forget The pre-eminent war memorial in NURSE EDITH CAVELL MEMORIAL “I must have no hatred…” LANSDOWNE ST Victoria. Originally built to commemorate
ELIZA COLLINS ST CLARENDON ST Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was a celebrated LITTLE COLLINS ST WELLINGTON PDE the men and women who served in BOURKE ST A BE E WILLIA TH ST WWI nurse who saved the lives of all SWANSTON ST the Great War, now a memorial to all A soldiers, regardless of nationality. M ST FLINDERS ST servicemen and women. On the 11th hour QUEEN ST In 1915, she was accused of conspiring of the 11th month, a ray of sunlight falls
B Jolimont to help prisoners escape and was tried A T on the Stone of Remembrance. COLLINS ST M Station AN A by a military court in Brussels. She was Federation VE Kings Domain, St Kilda Rd. Square Flinders convicted and sentenced to death. Street KING ST FLINDERS ST Station BRUNTON AVE Kings Domain, Birdwood Ave. SHRINE RESERVE Symbolic planting
SPENCER ST BATMANAVE Yarra River BATMANAVE 114 memorial trees were planted in 1934, STATUE OF GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH A fine Allied General MCG with more added in the 1950s. A Gallipoli With a distinguished military career lone pine, planted in 1933 was replaced The Arts Centre and a lifetime of service to Melbourne, ALEXANDRA AVE with a ‘grandchild’ in 2012. Sculptures, Sir John Monash is a revered figure. the Legacy Garden of Appreciation, ST KILDA RD Yarra River Melbourne Park He organised public observance Ngv International Remembrance Garden and Indigenous CITY RD of Anzac Day and was a driving Memorial make this area deeply moving. AVE W ALEXANDRA AVE force for the construction of the Crown GO TH Entertainement LI Hisense Kings Domain, St Kilda Rd. Complex Shrine. This statue acknowledges SOUTHBANK BVD SWAN ST Arena Sidney Myer his contribution. Music Bowl 5 NURSES MEMORIAL ‘Gave their lives for their country…’
Yarra River Kings Domain, cnr Government House Dr & Birdwood Ave.
POWER ST The Nurses Memorial Centre opened EY TUNNEL THE KINGS DOMAIN CITYLINK BURNL Olympic STATUE OF FIELD MARSHAL SIR THOMAS BLAMEY in 1949 after a public appeal from CITY RD Park STURT ST Melbourne QUEENS BRIDGE AAMI Park An outstanding military leader nurses returned from WWII, notably Convention CLARENDON ST Exhibition Kings Domain Centre KINGS WAY The first Australian to become a Betty Jeffrey and Vivian Bulwinkle. It continues to foster nurse education Statue of Edward ‘Weary’MORAY ST Dunlop Field Marshal, Blamey served with distinction at Gallipoli and the Western through scholarships and is a keeper NORMANBY RD Government Front. In WWII he became commander- of wartime history. Victoria House Barracks in-chief of Australia’s Military Forces. 431 St Kilda Rd. Kings Domain, cnr Government B I R 6 SOUTH AFRICAN SOLDIERS MEMORIAL D Australian patriotism W ST KILDA RD House Dr & Birdwood Ave.
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A STURT ST V CECIL ST COVENTRY ST E THE AUSTRALIAN HELLENIC MEMORIAL A special friendship imposing granite obelisk reflects the Evocative and symbolic, this memorial Victorian community’s deep emotions YORK ST Statue of Field Marshal Shrine Ofof about the Boer War and growing sense Sir Thomas Blamey Remembrance was unveiled in 2001 and honours the Royal Botanic Gardens 841 Australians who died in Greece and of national identity. The only memorial in at the Battle of Crete in WWII. It also Victoria to commemorate all Australian COVENTRY ST pays tribute to the 3,000 Australians soldiers involved in the conflict.
ANDERSON ST PARK ST captured during the Greek campaigns. Cnr Albert Rd & St Kilda Rd. DORCAS ST Statue of GeneralBANK ST Sir John Monash DOMAIN RD Kings Domain, cnr Government 7 VICTORIA BARRACKS 150 years of defence history House Dr & Birdwood Ave. BANK ST Here the bluestone buildings date back PUNT RD MORAY ST ALBERT RD ST KILDA RD THE MALTESE SHELTER OF PEACE A nation of heroes KINGS WAY to 1856, while inter-war additions are The Australian CLARENDON ST PARK ST Hellenic Memorial This arch commemorates the in the art-deco style. In WWII, Victoria awarding of the George Cross to Malta Barracks was the nerve centre of CECIL ST The Maltese during WWII. Normally awarded to Australia’s war effort. The War Cabinet
FERRARS ST B Shelter of Peace IR D individuals, the Cross was given to the occupied ‘A Block New Wing’,and W D O T R O ER D LB TOORAK RD A A wartime Prime Ministers, Robert V people of Malta, in recognition of their MONTAGUE ST E Albert Park QUEENS RD heroic struggle against enemy attack. Menzies and John Curtin, met here. Kings Domain, Birdwood Ave. Victoria Barracks, St Kilda Rd. Guided tours every 2nd Sunday at 2. Nurse Edith Cavell Memorial Fawkner Park