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Australian Memorial - Hyde park corner, London

The design for the memorial features a long, curving wall of West Australian green granite, reflecting the sweep of the Australian landscape. The wall features names of 47 of the battle sites where Australian and British military personnel fought, superimposed upon the names of 24,000 home towns of Australian servicemen and women, many of whom were never to return home.

 

 

Battle Names

 

Amiens, Crete, Lone Pine, Polygon Wood

Atlantic, Damascus, Markham-Ramu, Pozieres

Bardia, Darwin, Mediterranean, Rabaul

Beersheba, El Alamein, Megiddo, Ruhr

Berlin, Fromelles, Mesopotamia, Savo Island

Bismarck Sea, Gallipoli , Messines, Singapore

Borneo, Gaza, Milne Bay, Sunda Strait

Bougainville, Imphal, Mont St Quentin, Tobruk

Brallos Pass, Indian Ocean, Normandy, Villers-Bretonneux, Bullecourt, Kokoda, North Sea, Wewak

Cocos, Keeling, Krithia, Okinawa ,Ypres

Coral Sea, Lingayen Gulf, Passchendaele

 

 

 

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Uploaded on June 29, 2007
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