Upper Coomera Memorial, Upper Coomera, Queensland, Australia

Upper Coomera Memorial

Location	Oxenford-Tambourine & Charlies Crossing Roads, Upper Coomera, Gold Coast - Queensland, Australia
Type	memorial
Description	The life-sized digger stands with eyes down and arms reversed on a typical Petrie base. The sandstone memorial stands on granite blocks surrounded by a white wooden fence with white corner piers. It is on the top of a hill at Upper Coomera. The front of the slouch hat has been broken off. There is a flagpole to the immediate right of the memorial. The memorial is on a wide stretch of bitumen between the entrance to a property, Bonnie Brae, and the Tamborine Road. The model for this digger was Arthur Rex Fell. Read more...
Built	A. L. Petrie & Sons (Toowong, QLD)
Opened	18 May 1918 by Mr E.H. Macartney M.L.A.
Inscription	This memorial was erected by the residents in honour of the brave lads of the Coomera District who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1919 "They gave their all. Let you who pass, saluting here their names, See that through you no slur, nor stain, nor shame Falls on the land for which they gave their lives - AUSTRALIA." Left Side Inscription [ Names ] Back Inscription In memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice World War II 1939 - 1945 [ Names ] Right Side Inscription [ Names ]
Condition	Good