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Glenelg Shire • Victoria • Shire Glenelg War Memorial Halls containing honour boardsGrampians Honour and sites. sites. and Honour National 1 Bahgallah Soldiers War Memorial Hall Shire’s War Memorials, Avenues of of Avenues Memorials, War Shire’s Park Grampians C211 Wando Vale A self-drive touring route of Glenelg Glenelg of route touring self-drive A 17 C203 2 Dartmoor and District Soldiers War National Trail Park 12 MemorialCavendish Hall C207 3 Digby Soldiers War Memorial Hall C198 4 Henty Memorial Recreation Hall WAR MEMORIAL WAR 16a 5 Hotspur Public Hall B160 Coleraine 6 Mumbannar Soldiers War Memorial Hall Julia St Casterton 4 SHIRE 16 7 Paschendale Soldiers War Memorial Dunkeld Sandford Hall* (not open to public) 5 Gawler St Bentinck St 18 Henty 8 Sandford Mechanics Institute GLENELG GLENELG 8 C195 4 Paschendale 9 Strathdownie Soldiers War Memorial Hall 7 6 Bahgallah 7 8 1 10 Tyrendarra Soldiers War Memorial Hall Percy St Cli St C196 11 Wallacedale Soldiers War Memorial Hall Glenelg St Hamilton 9 B160 Merino 12 Wando Vale Soldiers War Memorial Hall 19 20 9 Strathdownie Tahara Ettrick -TyrendarraRd Wade St C187 3 Digby Grassdale St Bentinck A1 21 22 Princes Hwy Kennedy St Albert St Princes Hwy 10 Branxholme Darlots Rd Penshurst Mt Gambier Bridge Rd C187 Mt Napier A200 State Park A1 Mumbannar Wallacedale 6 Pr 11 inc 5 es H Dartmoor wy 2 23 Hotspur Huebner Rd Winnap Condah 14 15 P d 12 R o Johnsons h Siding Rd C195 r c Greenwald t r l 11 a u h Princes Hwy n GLENELG 13 d C186 North Nelson Rd C Winnap-Nelson Rd - Drik Drik C H a a Myamyn H r s r i e t s n Macarthur SHIRE e r R t to 11 12 d d y n R Lower Glenelg n o els H Po d-N rtlan R National Park w WAR MEMORIAL A1 d y Mt Eccles Trail 10 Lake National Drumborg Condah Nelson C192 Mount Park Hawkesdale 2 G Casterton-Edenhope Rd Lower Eckersley 14 len elg Port MacDonnell Glenelg Cobboboonee Greenham St Hw Henty St Wando Vale y Township Rd National National Park 15 Park Heywood 12 A self-drive touring route of C176 C176 Egan St Glenelg Shire’s War Memorials, Adelaide 24 25 Ascot St Avenues of Honour and other sites Henty St Princes Hwy Russell St established in acknowledgement of ex-service men and women Discovery Bay from south-west Victoria. C191 Tyrendarra Heathmere The Memorial Trail passes through P 10 ortland 1 A1 -N Prin Condah - Coleraine Rd coastal regions in the south to river els ce Portland- on C192 A200 s H Casterton Rd regions in the west to rolling1 hills in Discovery Bay Rd wy Maud St Coastal Park A1 2 Koroit the north, and through the towns, Narrawong villages and settlements that were A1 Church St once home to these brave men Allestree Tower Hill and women. Sandford Reserve Portland-Casterton Rd High St Reserve Rd Annesley St Tahara-Merino Rd Melbourne Burke St 8 Coleraine-Merino Rd Produced by Glenelg Shire Council Portland for the 2015 National Trust Heritage C193 Port Fairy Festival “Conflict & Compassion”. C194 3-9 Cape Bridgewater Blackwood Rd Hunter St d R 24 n o rt te Simpson St s Glenelg Shire Council has made every reasonable effort to a 22 -C ensure the accuracy and validity of the information provided d Cape Nelson n in this brochure, however does not accept responsibility for la Henty Hwy 3 t Lyons r Barclay St any errors or omissions made. Buckingham St o 21 Hotspur Rd P Portland-Casterton Rd 25 5 glenelg.vic.gov.au 1 . Memorial Gates 6. War Memorial 11. Avenue of Honour 1 6 St James’ Anglican Church, Memorial Triangle, Cliff St, Portland Service road in front of former state school, 12 7155 Princes Hwy, Tyrendarra (Council office) Winnap-Nelson Rd, Drik Drik Memorial Gates at the entrance to the Anglican A number of memorials are situated in front of The avenue includes approximately 15 Church commemorate five local servicemen the Glenelg Shire Council office, including a Moreton Bay Fig trees planted in 1918 and a who died in World War II. large white marble statue of a World War I soldier stone marker to commemorate World War I. unveiled in 1930. Since 1935, floral tributes have 2. War Memorial been displayed at the Memorial Triangle on 12. Memorial Gate Princes Hwy, Narrawong Anzac Day. 7 Drik Drik Cemetery, Winnap-Nelson Rd, A war memorial erected in memory of the 2 3 Drik Drik service men and women who served, died 7. Vietnam Veterans’ Garden Memorial Gates at the entrance to the and suffered in various conflicts. Cliff St, Portland (Council office) Cemetery commemorate those who served in World Wars I and II. The gates were originally Located near the Memorial Triangle, these erected at the site of the Drik Drik Primary 3. WWII Memorial Lookout Tower gardens commemorate those who served, School and the plaques were re-erected at the 2 Wade St, Portland suffered and died in the Vietnam war. 8 Entry fees apply. Open 9am to 4pm every day cemetery when the school closed. 13 except Christmas Day and Good Friday. 8. Prisoners of War Monument 13. Avenue of Honour Under the Australia Remembers Program this Cliff St, Portland (Council office) In front of former state school, Princes Hwy, obsolete water tower, built in the 1930s, now Located near the Memorial Triangle, a number commemorates social and military history. As Greenwald of plaques commemorate the men and women This avenue of honour includes 23 Radiata well as great views from the top of the tower, 9 who suffered as prisoners of war in various pine trees, planted in 1918 to commemorate there are a number of displays of military 4 conflicts. history focusing on local involvement in those who served in World War I. In 2014 a new memorial plaque, stone and flag pole World War II. 9. Gallipoli Pine were erected. Botanic Gardens, 1 Glenelg St, Portland 4. The Narthex, Memorial Plaques Located within Portland’s Botanic Gardens, and Memorial Window established in 1857, is a Gallipoli Lone Pine St Stephen’s Church, corner of Percy and planted and dedicated in 1992. 11 Julia St, Portland Located within the church are a number of 5 10. Memorial Gate plaques, a memorial window and The Narthex Nelson Cemetery,Huebner Rd, Nelson dedicated as a war memorial. The War Memorial Wall at the entrance to the 10 Nelson Cemetery was unveiled in 2006 and 5. Portland RSL (Sub-branch) commemorates servicemen who served in World Wars I and II. Twenty six people are Corner of Percy and Gawler St, Portland honoured on the plaques. Open 10 am to 12 noon Tuesday and Thursday. A number of honour boards, photographs and memorabilia are displayed in the hall. 14. Gallipoli Pine and Dartmoor and 17. War Memorial 22. Memorial Park 14 16 District Avenue of Honour 636 Casterton-Edenhope Rd, Wando Vale 17 18 Intersection of Portland-Casterton Rd 22 (Memorial Carvings) The war memorial honours local residents and Simpson St, Digby Intersection of Greenham and Ascot St, who served in World War I and the Korean Opened in 1993, this park commemorates Dartmoor and Vietnam Wars. those who served in World War II. A peace The avenue, planted in 1918 includes a tree planted in the park commemorates the number of Atlantic cedar trees, both living and 18. War Memorial South-East Asian and Vietnam conflicts. dead. The dead trees have been carved into Portland-Casterton Rd, Sandford sculptures in commemoration of those who The Sandford War Memorial was originally 23. Avenue Of Honour 23 served in World War I. The sculptures created erected to honour the men of Sandford who Intersection of Blackwoods Rd and by Kevin Gilders include Sad News, The Nurse, served in World War I. Additional plaques Casterton-Portland Rd, Hotspur The Boy at War, At Arms, Three Services, Over were added for later conflicts. In 1918, 40 Brachychiton acerfolius (Kurrajong) the Top, Rest in Peace, Parting and The Game. trees were planted by the Hotspur community 19. War Memorial and Avenue Located at the end of the Avenue of Honour ‘as living monuments to the memory of the of Honour 19 at the Village Green is a Gallipoli Lone Pine great sacrifices made by their gallant soldiers’ and plaque. Intersection of Maud and High St, Merino in the Great War. In 2001 a new brass plaque The Merino War Memorial was unveiled in 1918 to with the names of these local soldiers was 15. Memorial Gates 15 honour the men of Merino and District who fought mounted on to a large boulder. Dartmoor Primary School, in World War I. It now commemorates those who 76 Greenham St, Dartmoor served in various conflicts. The avenue of honour 24 Memorial gates at the entrance to the school was planted in 1932. 24. Gallipoli Pine and Heywood commemorate local residents who served War Memorial 20. War Memorial in World War I. Intersection Hunter St and Henty Hwy, Condah-Coleraine Rd (near Tahara-Merino Rd Heywood 16. War Memorials intersection), Tahara A tall granite obelisk was dedicated in 1920 Bryan Park, Corner of Henty and Russell St, The Tahara War Memorial commemorates 38 to the ‘men who served the Empire’ and Casterton local men and 1 nurse who served in World War 20 21 gave their lives. Additional commemorative The Boer War Memorial comprises a cast 16a I. Unveiled in 1919, the memorial includes a tall inscriptions were added for conflicts between iron sculpture on a sandstone block, unveiled granite obelisk, cast iron fence and flag pole.