List of Australian military memorials

Most Australian towns and cities have a World War I or ANZAC, and/or World War II memorial or Cenotaph.

Listing and photographs are by state and territory:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Australian Capital Territory

Australian War Memorial, Canberra
The ACT Memorial with London Circuit, Canberra Theatre and the ACT Legislative Assembly in the background.
Australian Merchant Navy Memorial, Kings Park, Canberra

New South Wales

Batemans Bay Vietnam War (1962-1973) Memorial (2005)
Batlow, RSL garden and memorial with Bofors 40/60 anti-aircraft gun
Berrima
Braidwood
Bungendore
Bundarra
Chatswood Memorial Garden
World War II memorial in the Chatswood Memorial Garden
Culcairn
Forbes Boer War memorial
Forbes war memorial
World War I Rolls of Honour at the Glen Oak School of the Arts Hall
Greta
Gundagai
Gundaroo
Jugiong
Milton
Mittagong
Mittagong RSL
Narrabri
Nerriga
Parkes
Hyde Park Memorial, Sydney
Tarago
Thornton (1978)
Thornton War Memorial (detail)
Tumbarumba District Roll of Honour
Tumbarumba District Volunteers South African War 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Tumbarumba Memorial Hall
Union Jack Gold Mining Company memorial (WW1), about 5 km north of Tumbarumba
Tweed Heads
Ulmarra on the Clarence River
Victory Memorial Gardens Arch, Wagga Wagga
Wellington (front)
Wellington (river side)
Hyde Park, Sydney (Yininmadyemi - Thou didst let fall)

Memorials for people

Private Patrick Joseph Bugden VC, Alstonville, New South Wales

Northern Territory

Memorial commemorating the bombing of Darwin (1942)

Queensland

Brisbane

ANZAC Square

Shrine of Remembrance, ANZAC Square
Shrine of Remembrance ANZAC Square façade, showing the lower section which contains the crypt with the World War II Shrine of Memories
Second Boer War Memorial
World War I Memorial Sculpture on the external wall of the Shrine of Memories section of the Shrine of Remembrance
World War II Memorial
South West Pacific Campaign Memorial
Korea Malaya Borneo 1948-1966 Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial

Brisbane CBD

RAAF Memorial
at Queens Gardens
The Eagle on top of
the RAAF Memorial
at Queens Gardens
Statue of Major-General
Sir William Glasgow
at Post Office Square

Brisbane suburbs

Gair Park War Memorial, Dutton Park
Cameron Rocks War Memorial, Hamilton
Anning Monument, Hemmant
ISA War Memorial, Inala
Indooroopilly Fallen Sailors and Soldiers Monument, Indooroopilly
Oxley War Memorial
Ithaca War Memorial, Paddington
War Memorial,
South Brisbane
War Memorial, The Gap
War Memorial, Windsor

Monument to non-Australian forces

Monument to the United States forces for their help in World War II. The monument is in the grounds of Newstead House, Newstead

Queensland country

Babinda
Cairns
Eacham
Esk
Boer War Memorial, Gatton
Goondiwindi
Innisfail
Millmerran
Port Douglas
Runaway Bay
Southport (from 2010) - gates and statue
Southport (from 2010) - statue
Southport (pre 2010)
Tiaro
Upper Coomera

South Australia

South African War Memorial, North Terrace, Adelaide

Tasmania

Hobart Cenotaph

Victoria

Bonnie Doon
Crib Point (outside HMAS Cerberus)
Corryong
Eildon
Flinders
World War I memorial, Kalorama, Victoria
Jamieson
Mansfield
Shrine of Remembrance
General Post Office, Melbourne
Merrijig
Montrose memorial and garden
Sassafras memorial and garden
Torquay (new memorial, old behind)
Wangaratta War Memorial garden
Yarra Glen memorial and its hall

Western Australia

As of 2015 there are more than 900 "war memorials and related objects" in Western Australia.^[1]

Perth metropolitan

Axford Park memorial obelisk^[1]
North Fremantle Fallen Soldiers' Memorial^[1]
East Fremantle Roll of Honour^[1]

Kings Park

Kings Park in Perth includes several war memorials.^[1]

State War Memorial

Tobruk War Memorial
Vietnam War Memorial
Kings Park has several "honour avenues". These avenues are lined with trees, each tree having been planted in the memory of an individual who died in the war. A plaque in front of the tree identifies each person.

Monument Hill, Fremantle

The Monument Hill Memorial Reserve on High Street has several memorials.^[1]

Fremantle War Memorial or Fallen Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial

Merchant Navy Memorial
Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam Memorial
RAN Corvettes Memorial
United States Submariners' Memorial

Albany

Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Mount Clarence

Albany has several memorials.^[1]

Albany War Memorial
ANZAC Peace Park
Apex Drive Honour Avenue
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk statue and Atatürk Entrance
The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Mount Clarence
RSL Nurses' Memorial Garden
The Gallipoli Pine, Mount Clarence
The South East Asia memorial in the Princess Royal Fortress
National Anzac Centre, including the "Still On Patrol" memorial and the Merchant Navy Memorial

Outside of Australia

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Stephens, John; Seal, Graham (2015). Remembering the Wars: Commemoration in Western Australian Communities. Black Swan Press. ISBN 9780987567079.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to War memorials in Australia.

"Australian War Memorials". ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland.

Australian war memorials

Major national monuments (capital cities)	ANZAC War Memorial (Sydney) Australian Army Memorial (Canberra) Australian War Memorial (Canberra) The Cenotaph (Hobart) Kings Park War Memorial (Perth) National War Memorial (Adelaide) Shrine of Remembrance (Brisbane) Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne)

On foreign soil	Australian War Memorial (London, England) Australian Soldier Park (Beersheba, Israel) Lae War Cemetery (Lae, Papua New Guinea) Lone Pine Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (Gallipoli, Turkey) V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial (Fromelles, France)

Regional monuments	ACT Memorial (Canberra) Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial (Ballarat) Monument Hill (Fremantle) Victory Memorial Gardens (Wagga Wagga)

Boer War memorials	South African War Memorial (Adelaide)

World War I memorials	Arch of Victory (Ballarat) Avenues of Honour The Cenotaph (Sydney) Johnstone Park Memorial (Geelong) Mount Macedon Memorial Cross

World War II memorials	Australian–American Memorial (Canberra) Avenues of Honour Albany Armadale Bacchus Marsh Ballarat Booroopki Buchan South Cowra Hobart Lakes Entrance Lysterfield Macedon O'Connell Woodend North El Alamein Fountain (Sydney) Military Museum and Bombing Memorial (Darwin)

Korean War memorials	Korean War Memorial (Canberra)

Campaigns	Regimental Square (Sydney)

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