Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld

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Location Pinnaroo Cemetery and Crematorium, 285 Graham Road, Bridgeman Downs, Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The Queensland Garden of Remembrance is situated within the Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery and is operated and maintained by the Office of Australian War Graves.

The original garden was opened in the early 1960s and was extended in 1988.

Set around a large fig tree, the memorial walls have the capacity for 45,500 plaques.

A feature of the garden is a large fig tree around which the plaque walls radiate. The entry building houses the plaque recording the opening of the extended garden in 1988. To the right are columns bearing the emblems of the three services. Beyond the columns lies a lily pond.

Upon entering the garden the fig tree is to the left. A watercourse flows through the garden and leads to a cascading waterfall. The path follows the contour of the extended garden. Occasionally placed copper-clad pergolas provide shaded seating areas surrounded by water plants. The creeper which blooms with attractive yellow flowers, and which covers the pergola is the Lady Slipper vine (Thunbergia mysorensis).

The path continues into the original garden where, at the end, a large shelter is provided. This shelter also houses a large dedication plaque.

The office houses the register books which list the wall and row number of each individual plaque. Office is on site at Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery (located in the middle of the cemetery and separate from the Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery office)

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Condition

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Names

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MCCORMACK, Dennis James

Service number 1730994
Private
6th Battalion
The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR)
Australian Army (Post WW2)
Born 17 Jun 1945

RUTHERFORD, Douglas Wallace

Service number OFFICER
Captain
No. 1 Squadron
Australian Flying Corps
AIF WW1
Born 28 Sep 1890

BLACKFORD, George Conway

Service number Q37004
Corporal
42 Infantry Battalion AMF
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 2 Jun 1918

CULVERHOUSE, Leslie Gordon

Service number Q101743
Private
15 Infantry Battalion AMF
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 10 Jun 1915

SAMMON, Francis Michael

Service number QX1976
Sergeant
2nd/2nd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 7 Oct 1910

LYONS, Douglas James

Service number SX33592
Private
Born 28 Jan 1926

SMITH, James

Service number QX10763
Private
2nd/26th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 1 May 1903

GREVILLE, Leon Roderic

Service number 2376
Lieutenant Colonel
4th Battalion
The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR)
Australian Army (Post WW2)
Born 10 Aug 1927

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