100 Places for 100 Years - Victorian War Heritage Trails SOUTH-WEST VICTORIA Long-Range Heavy Bomber Is Being Commemorates the Anzac Centenary

1 RAAF MUSEUM Spiritual homeland of the RAAF Operations at Point Cook RAAF base commenced in 1914 and provided initial flight training until 1992. The museum collection documents all aspects of RAAF history. Popular Interactive Flying Displays show a heritage aircraft in flight. 100 places Point Cook Road, Point Cook. Open Tue-Fri 10-3, Weekends 10-5. 2 B-24 LIBERATOR RESTORATION The ultimate in ‘boys’ toys’ for 100 years Restoration of a B-24 MR Liberator 100 places for 100 years - Victorian War Heritage Trails SOUTH-WEST VICTORIA long-range heavy bomber is being commemorates the Anzac Centenary. An App and a series of carried out in a WWII hanger on complementary brochures guide visitors to important war the old Werribee airfield. A total of memorials across Victoria by way of eight tour routes from VICTORIAN WAR HERITAGE TRAILS 287 Liberators saw service as heavy North- West Victoria to Central Melbourne to Gippsland. bombers. Visit to see the restoration The free App may be downloaded via the Apple App Store in progress. or Google Play Store. The brochures and fold out maps Geelong Road, Werribee. Travel the South-West Trail and you will be reminded of detailing the eight tour routes may be downloaded at Open Tue, Thu, Sun 9:30-3:30. the courage, endurance and sacrifice of country Victorians http://anzaccentenary.vic.gov.au 3 MARITIME MUSEUM The many incarnations of Osborne House – both here and abroad. Cenotaphs and memorials along The Anzac Centenary provides an opportunity to Domestic residence, naval college, the trail inscribe long lists of those who served and those acknowledge Australia’s contribution to war and the impacts military hospital, submarine service who did not return. it had on our nation. 100 places for 100 years enables us base, army training centre and now to reflect on Anzac traditions and consider the contribution Geelong Maritime Museum: Osborne The memorials to WWI and WWII are moving. They occupy central of all Victorians. Between 2014 and 2018 Victoria will join House has many stories to tell. positions in country towns such as Colac and Camperdown, global commemorations to mark the centenary of the Swinburn Street, Geelong. forming an integral part of the community. First World War. Open Sun-Fri 10-3.30. The Great Ocean Road - with its spectacular road carved from the cliffs - inspires, particularly when remembering that it was cut by 4 JOHNSTONE PARK PEACE MEMORIAL A grand vision WWI soldiers on relief work. Move further down the South- West WWI was the ‘war to end all wars’, coast and you will encounter the ‘Russian threat’ - defences and memorials reflect the desire to developed in the late 19th century to ward off an anticipated commemorate and celebrate peace. attack from the Russians. Port Fairy and Portland have substantial The Peace Memorial Foyer opened remnants of these coastal defences. in 1926. The names of the 3,500 who Endeavours to give our soldiers the best fighting chance are enlisted from the district are inscribed explored at the birthplace of Australian aviation at Point Cook RAAF in panels on the wall. base and at the military training ground and hospital at Geelong. Gheringhap Street, Geelong. 5 GREAT OCEAN ROAD Work for the returned serviceman More than 3,000 returned WWI servicemen built the Great Ocean Road in honour of fallen comrades. Once called the Anzac Highway, the making of the road created the world’s biggest war memorial. Commences at Torquay and continues for 243 kms. BALLARAT M HAMILTON B B 9 BATTERY HILL The Russians are coming… H A MI LTO N Battery Hill in Port Fairy was built in HW MELBOURNE Y the late nineteenth century to repulse a possible Russian invasion. The Y WERRIBEE W H guns were operated by a Volunteer Y T N E WY H B H Corps, but were never fired in action. H ON AM ILT ILT M ON HWY HA M Some guns remain and can be viewed Y W S F CE with fortifications and bunkers. B IN PR A Battery Lane, Port Fairy. A Port Phillip Bay T MORTLAKE E R A N G 10 C -M 1889 BATTERY Defending the Bay Y O R GEELONG W TL H A K S E E R The Battery consists of a concrete gun C D N I R Y P emplacement, underground magazine W H B A A WY T A ES H S and 80-pounder gun. It was built to C CAMPERDOWN A HWY RIN CES P O Y C RIN W P Y S H F W CE R defend Portland Bay, believed to be N U S H RI A IN P S PK P Y PR HO R IN A IN under threat from Russian warships. W C C B H E CES HW E S H IN Y S Y W PR H T Y WY A In WWII the Volunteer Air Observer N E H PORTLAND COLAC D Corps used the Battery. It was restored R A N A E C in 1984. AT O RE G Battery Point, Victoria Parade, Portland. Cape Nelson WARRNAMBOOL B State Park 11 KENNA VC STATUE The highest degree of bravery Cape Schanck LORNE Hamilton born, Edward Kenna served G R EA in WWII. Under heavy machine gun fire, T O CEAN RD Kenna took down a Japanese gun post D R N A in New Guinea, earning the Victoria E C T O GREA Cross. The statue honours his service B M to community and country. WY ES F NC APOLLO BAY PRI Sam Fitzpatrick Gardens, E S U O Brown Street, Hamilton. D H T R WERRIBEE Y H A G D D W I U R N L C T G A O N NS O R 12 L D T MEMORIAL PRECINCT Remembering the fallen E IA ION R E V D A D G R S Cape Otway M The Empire War Memorial, a fine marble Y A W I F L S L CE I IN W sculpture, honours Australian soldiers PR who died in the Boer War. The 1929 SCALE (km) 0 50 sculpture of Brittannia is located nearby commemorating local servicemen and women who lost their lives in WWI. Camperdown, near clocktower. 6 ARCHWAY EASTERN VIEW An impressive tribute 7 WWII RADAR BUNKER Lighthouse, wrecks and bunkers 8 WARRNAMBOOL WAR MEMORIALS The country sent its finest 13 COLAC CENOTAPH Memories in the heart of Colac The Arch commemorates the construction The Cape Otway Lighthouse is the oldest A 38-foot granite work stands tall Colac Memorial Square, in of the Great Ocean Road and symbolises surviving lighthouse in Australia. Learn on Cannon Hill. Unveiled in 1926, it the WWI Memorial Reserve, the sacrifice made by so many in WWI. about the wreck of the SS City of Rayville, immortalises 1,100 local WWI recruits. features an imposing sandstone The Arch is the fourth to be erected on sunk at the Cape by a German mine in The Aboriginal War Service Memorial cenotaph, which lists the names this site; removal of road toll facilities, 1940. See inside a radar bunker, built by pays tribute to the Indigenous people of 1,665 local servicemen. A pine fire, and a wayward truck removed the the Americans in 1942. from the district that served. Other tree taken as a cutting from previous three. Cape Otway, follow road to lighthouse. plaques and memorials are in the the original Gallipoli Lone Pine Eastern View, Great Ocean Road. park nearby. stands nearby. Artillery Crescent, Warrnambool. Princes Highway/Gellibrand Street, Colac..

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