Bar Beach Memorial Drive, The Hill Middle Image Image Image 0 / 0 - Prev Next Description / Background The memorial is a road, approximately 1.6 kilometres long, and marked with a 1 metre high triangular concrete tapered obelisk, which is damaged, at the corner of Memorial Drive, High Street and Cliff Street. The road commences in the east at High Street and Cliff Street, ending in the west at Helen Street and Kilgour Street, Bar Beach. The Newcastle City Council 'Hunter Place Names Index' states Memorial Drive is "A public road in memory of World War I veterans." This memorial has been documented as "Anzac Memorial Drive" in the following collection: Samuel Wood, wholesale stationer, printer and bookseller : postcards, ca. 1920-1931, 260. Anzac Memorial Drive, Newcastle It is unknown when the name was changed to "Memorial Drive" as listed in the Newcastle Libraries Hunter Photobank. Do you know more about this war memorial? Learn how you can contribute to the NSW War Memorials Register. Inscription Obelisk - west face Opened [illeg.] October 1922 H.P. Cornish Mayor Obelisk - north east face Memorial Drive Related links BAR BEACH ROAD (17 Apr 1922) PEP AND PUSH (18 Jul 1922) MEMORIAL DRIVE. (14 Dec 1932) Veterans listed on this memorial Do you know more about this war Memorial? Click here to learn how you can contribute Sidebar Address 1 Memorial Drive Bar Beach NSW 2300 Local Government Area Newcastle, City of Memorial type Other Recorded by Mr Robert McLardy Year of construction 1922 Conflict/s First World War, 1914–18