Tweed Heads 7th Australian Division 2nd A.I.F. Second World War Memorial Plaque

The memorial is a bronze plaque dedicated to all who served in the 7th Australian Division of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) during the Second World War. At the top of the plaque are the military insignias of the Australian Commonwelth Military Forces and the division. 

The memorial is located along the Tweed Heads Memorial Walkway in Chris Cunningham Park. It is attached to a lattice frame, set within a garden bed. It is one of a number of plaques commemorating Australian military units and organisations positioned throughout the area.  

Excerpt from the Australian War Memorial:

Part of the 17th Brigade of the 6th Australian Division, the 2/7th Battalion opened its headquarters at the Royal Melblourne Showgrounds on 25 October 1939. It relocated to the newly-established camp at Puckapunyal on 3 November to carry out its basic training, and departed Melbourne for service overseas on 15 April 1940.

The 2/7th arrived in the Middle East on 17 May, and from there served in eastern Libya. Following this, it deployed to Greece in early April 1941, then Crete and Syria. In mid-January 1943, it met the Japanese in New Guinea. Returning briefly to Australia on 6 October 1943, the division were sent back to New Guinea in 1944. It finally returned to Australia on 18 December 1945, where it was disbanded at Puckapunyal  the following February.

Chris Cunningham Park is a site of Anzac Day and other commemorative services.