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13-06-2008, 05:12 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2   | The Shrine of Rememberance, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia The Shrine of Remembrance Just popped across the road to the Shrine again at lunch time and discovered some more items of interest in the Crypt (Changi flag etc) which I hadn't been into before. Thought I might start a thread where I'll post pics of the Shrine and the grounds over time. The pics will be representative as there are more than 200 memorial trees (and plaques) that represent certain units around the grounds in addition to the statues etc. I'll put the rest in a gallery somewhere so as not to take up too much bandwidth here. Will post descriptions of the various features here. Saw my first VC today (that I can remember seeing, not sure if Hendon has any but I was more interested in the aircraft at the age of 12!) but will post about that elsewhere.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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13-06-2008, 06:10 AM
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You're Top Poster: #14  | Sounds like a nice place to visit Andy  If I ever go back to Aussie for a holiday, I will have to visit the shrine (as well as the Lancaster bomber that is over in Perth, representing 463 Squadron).
__________________ "No flaps, or rudder control left in her skipper!!" "All right, bail out you chaps... we've all had it..." "We're sure as hell not leaving you here sir!!" "You sure? If you are, I hope to god we can make it back on three engines..." "I'm pretty damn sure Sugar won't let us down now skip!" |
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13-06-2008, 09:57 AM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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13-06-2008, 10:52 AM
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There's also one on Monash at the moment that I whizzed through today. Will read it properly next week.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. | |
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