Moree ANZAC Centenary Memorial

Details

Location Anne & Gosport Streets, Moree, Moree Plains - New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Raised blocks along pathway with plaques

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 12 March 2016
Inscription

ANZAC Centenary Memorial

Officially opened by His Excellency the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) Governor of New South Wales

Saturday 12 March 2016

This memorial is a place to honour and remember the sacrifice of all men and women from the Moree region who fought and died in World War I.

In February 1916, local men enlisted to fight for `King and Country`. They left Moree by train travelling to Armidale for basic army training, forming what would become the first 33rd Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Battalion. This march became known as the Kurrajong March, one of the many enlistment marches in NSW at that time. The Kurrajong tree commonly found in the Moree landscape is a hardy tree, symbolic of those who volunteered in WWI. Many were never to return.

The shape of the Kurrajong leaf and seed pod is the same shape as the shoulder patch of the 33rd AIF Battalion. The Battalion left Australia in May 1915 for further training in the United Kingdom, before travelling to France, joining the Western Front in November 1916.

They served in major battles over the next two years including Messines, Passchendaele and Villers - Bretonneux. A row of Kurrajong trees has been planted along Gosport Street in rememberance of these men.

Condition

Good

Names

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EATHER, Athol Bert

Service number 716
Trooper
1st Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1893

BEAUMONT, Bernshaw Lomax

Service number 3709
Private
49th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

THOMPSON, Ada Mildred

Service number STAFF...
Staff Nurse
Australian Army Nursing Service (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 1886

HARDING, William Royland Baker

Service number 5350
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

RICHARDS, John Alfred

Service number 602
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Feb 1900

HOBDEN, Raymond Robert George

Service number 119
Trooper
1st Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 26 Dec 1888

CLAYTON, Gladstone John Garland

Service number 1667
Lieutenant
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born May 1893

MAGARRY, Walter

Service number 50
Lance Corporal
5th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 10 May 1887

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