Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Large boulder with bronze plaques.
Flagpole

Hazelwood Estate - 1922
(MacMillan Selection)

The names listed below are the original 44 WW1 Returned Soldiers who were allotted 44 of the original 45 allotments for farming under the Solider Settlement Scheme on the Hazelwood Estate originally owned by the MacMillan Family.
The number shown before each name is the Lot number of the subdivision established and also shows where each returned soldier originally came from.
Other Returned Soldiers took up other allotments privately.

(Names)

LEST WE FORGET

THIS PLAQUE AND MEMORIAL STONE
IS IN RECOGNITION OF THE CONTRIBUTION
MADE TO THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF
THE HAZEL WOOD DISTRICT BY THE
51 RETURNED SOLDIERS FROM THE
FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918
WHO WERE ALLOCATED LAND BY THE
SOLDIERS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION TO
DEVELOP DAIRY FARMS IN THE AREA
TO THE SOUTH AND WEST OF THIS POINT,
AND NOW IS COVERED BY THE
HAZELWOOD PONDAGE.
ERECTED BY THE MORWELL,
YINNAR AND BOOLARRA MEMBERS OF
THE RETURNED AND SERVICES LEAGUE
OF AUSTRALIA AND
THE MORWELL SHIRE COUNCIL
IN REMEMBRANCE OF THEM

LEST WE FORGET
DEDICATED ON THE 24TH APRIL 1988

PRESIDENT
MALCOLM J BUGG OAM, JP
SECRETARY
COLIN F HOWER

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