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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:03 am Post subject: Australian War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner, London |
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Australian War Memorial
Location: Hyde Park Corner
OS Ref: TQ 284 797
Latitude: 51:30:08N (51.50213)
Longitude: 0:09:05W (-0.15145)
Google Maps Street View
Although you can say this isn't a specifically Scottish war memorial thousands of Scots served in the Australian Forces in both World Wars and because of the design of this memorial Scottish places are listed on the memorial so I think it's worthy of inclusion on this forum.
The memorial is built from 200 tonnes of green Western Australian granite and lists 24,000 places rather than names. These are the places Australian soldiers, sailors and airmen were born in. That means that although there are large numbers of Australian towns there are other towns from across the world listed.
You can see a full list of all the town names on this website:
http://www.dva.gov.au/commems_oawg/oawg/war_memorials/overseas_memorials/uk/london/Pages/index.aspx
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Adam Brown Curator
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Adam Brown Curator
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:17 am Post subject: |
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The large names are forty seven battle honours won by Australian Army Navy and Air Force units in two World Wars. There is a plaque in front of the memorial which shows the locations of where they were earned on a map of the world. The battle honours are:
Amiens, Atlantic, Bardia, Beersheba, Berlin, Bismarck Sea, Borneo, Bougainville, Brallos Pass, Bullecourt, Cocos, Coral Sea, Crete,Damascus, Darwin, El Alamein, Fromelles, Gallipoli, Gaza, Imphal, Indian Ocean, Keeling, Kokoda, Krithia, Lingayen Gulf, Lone Pine, Markham-Ramu, Mediterranean, Megiddo, Mesopotamia, Messines, Milne Bay, Mont St Quentin, Normandy, North Sea, Okinawa, Passchendaele,Polygon Wood, Pozieres, Rabaul, Ruhr, Savo Island, Singapore, Sunda Strait, Tobruk, Villers-Bretonneux, Wewak, Ypres
It was unveiled on 11.11.2008 by the Queen and the then Australian Prime Minister John Howard. The then British Prime Minister Tony Blair was also in attendance.
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Some names I can see are Lybster, Port Glasgow, Kirkintilloch, Campbeltown, Crossmichael, I'm sure others will spot more Scottish names.
Looking up the website I know my own home town of Brora is listed.
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