Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Adelaide PWH2s D-Day

ADELAIDE 5000

MEMORIAL: Memorial Garden

LOCATION: Above the Torrens Parade Ground along the back of the Governors Domain wall from Kintore Avenue to King William Street

ORIENTATION: North

DESCRIPTION: Pathway of Honour. The pathway contains 23 monuments, 22 with bronze plaques affixed to cement or granite blocks; several have two plaques. The main plaques are set on an angled face. One monument, the SAS, is a cut and polished black granite boulder with brass plaques affixed to the face.

NB: Owing to the nature of this memorial as an ongoing project with additional monuments continually being added, it has now been modified to include all monuments as individual items and are listed under the main title as additional items with a lower case suffix eg. Adelaide PWH2a, Adelaide PWH2b and so forth.

INSCRIPTIONS:

PATHWAY OF HONOUR

2s

Upper plaque:

Normandy Veterans Association logo

NORMANDY VETERANS ASSOCIATION

BRANCH NO. 98 SOUTH AUSTRALIA

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO ALL

PERSONNEL WHO TOOK PART IN THE

LIBERATION OF NORMANDY D-DAY

JUNE 6TH 1944 TO AUGUST 20TH 1944

LEST WE FORGET

                    UTAH              OMAHA                GOLD                      JUNO               SWORD

              GRANDCAMP     VIERVILLE     ARROMANCHES     COURSEULLES     ST ALBIN

SPONSORED BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Lower plaque:

THIS MEMORIAL ON JUNE 8^TH 2003.

WAS UNVEILED BY

LT GEN SIR D. DUNSTAN. AC. KBE. CB. (RET

DEDICATED BY

REV PETER. MILLER. TH L.

NORMANDY VETERANS PRAYER.

AMEN

MAINTAINED BY: Adelaide City Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE: 23 Feb 02, updated 12 Jan 04, 12 Dec 05, 16 Oct 06, 12 Dec07