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Taree Great War Memorial Walkway

Taree Great War Memorial Walkway
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Taree Great War Memorial Walkway, Centenary of Anzac plaque
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Taree Great War Memorial Walkway, Palestine and Middle East-Sini pavers
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Taree Great War Memorial Walkway, Hindenburg Line and Peronne pavers
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Taree Great War Memorial Walkway, Hamel and Villers-Bretonneux pavers
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Taree Great War Memorial Walkway, Messines and Bullenourt pavers
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Taree Honour Roll, dedication monument
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Description / Background

This memorial is a paved walkway through the remembrance precinct in Fotheringham Park, Taree. It was designed to link the Taree War Memorial with the Taree Honour Rolls.

On 23 January 2015, The Manning River Times interviewed Darcy Elbourne, senior vice president of the Taree RSL and chairman of the Taree 2015 Anzac Day Planning Committee, about the memorial which was under construction. He stated:

The walkway is to consist of the marked bricks including the significant campaigns and battles the Australian troops fought in during World War I and adds to the story of the memorials and its surrounds.

The inscriptions include: Gallipoli, Palestine, Middle East-Sini, Syria, Beersheba, Hindenburg Line, Peronne, Bapaume, Mouquet Farm, Brookseinde, Polygon Wood, Fromelles, Passchendaele, Poelcapelie, Pozieres, Somme, Hamel, Villers-Bretonneux, Messines and Bullecourt.

The walkway was dedicated on 25 April 2015. During the event, a bronze plaque attached to the paving commemorating the Centenary of Anzac was also unveiled. 

The project was assisted by a grant from the 'Anzac Centenary Local Grant Program', received in 2014. 

Anzac Day services and other commemorative events are held in Fotheringham Park.

Inscription

Centenary of Anzac plaque

They shall grow not old ...

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,

Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow;

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we think that they are left grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

O.L. Binyon (From For the Fallen)

COMMEMORATING THE CENTENARY OF ANZAC

"We will remember them"

TAREE RSL SUB BRANCH

2015

Example pavers

Palestine

Middle East-Sini

Hindenburg Line

Peronne

Hamel

Villers-Bretonneux

Messines

Bullecourt

Veterans listed on this memorial

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Address
Fotheringham Park
Victoria Road
Taree NSW 2430
Local Government Area
Mid-Coast Council
Setting
Garden/park
Location status
Original location
Memorial type
Walkway
Recorded by
Graham Wilson
Year of construction
2015
Dedication date
25 April 2015
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18
Materials
Brick
Bronze