Parkes & District Cenotaph, Parkes, New South Wales, Australia

Parkes & District Cenotaph

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Location	Cooke Park, Short & Welcome Streets, Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
Type	memorial
Description	A memorial that honours all of the military personnel who failed to return home after military actions. The memorial has five steles situated on plinth 1500 mm tall, 200 mm depth and 900 mm wide. Each stele depicts graphics representing each conflict as described: WWI - Simpson and his donkey WW2 - Fuzzy Wuzzy and wounded soldier on Kokoda Trail Korea - Hill Vietnam - Operation Ulmarah depicting helicopters and troops Centre stele - 'Peacekeepers' with graphic of a dove The plinth is 600 mm high, 450 mm in depth and 14 metres wide. Top of steps to plinth 2000mm and each of 5 steps is 1200mm wide. The cenotaph is constructed of granite with bronze art design. (Names listed according to Register of War Memorials in NSW website) Read more...
Built	Not yet discovered
Opened	23 April 2004
Inscription	First World War 1914 -1918 Parkes ( Names) Alectown (Names) Bogan Gate (Names) Bruie Plains (Name) Peak Hill (Names) Tichbourne (Names) Trundle (Names) Tullamore (Names) Wongalea (Names) Yarrabandai (Names) Second World War 1939 -1945 Parkes (Names) Alectown (Names) Bogan Gate (Names) Peak Hill (Names) Trundle (Names) Tullamore (Names) Korean War 1950 -1953 Parkes (Names) Bogan Gate (Name) Vietnam War Parkes (Names) LEST WE FORGET Sudan June 1885. Boer War 1899 - 1902. Boxer Uprising 1900 - 1901. Malayan Emergency 1950 - 1960. Confrontation (Indonesia) 1964 - 1966. Gulf War (Middle East) 1990 - 1991. Afghanistan 2001 -2002. Iraq 2003. Peacekeeping
Condition	Good