Wagga Wagga Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey Memorial Tree

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Location Victory Memorial Gardens, Baylis & Morrow Streets, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial_planting
Description

Tree and plaque
Built Not yet discovered
Opened 23 April 1995
Inscription

City of Wagga Wagga

This tree was planted by Lieutenant General Sir Phillip Bennet KBE, AO, DSO Chief of the General Staff on 24th January 1984

To commemorate the centenary of the birth at Wagga Wagga (Lake Albert) on 24th January, 1894 of Field Marshal, Sir Thomas Albert Blamey GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED 1884 - 1951

Australian Military Forces, 1906 - 1951
General Officer Commanding Australian Imperial Forces, 1939 - 1942
Commander in Chief Australian Military Forces 1942 - 1945
Commander Allied Land Forces South West Pacific Area, 1942 - 1945

W. R. Ellis M. H. Gissing
Town Clerk Mayor
Condition

Good

Names

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BLAMEY, Thomas Albert

Service number VX1
Field Marshal
Born 24 Jan 1884

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