Victory Memorial Gardens

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Coordinates: 35°6′33.12″S 147°22′10.56″E / 35.1092000°S 147.3696000°E / -35.1092000; 147.3696000
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This article is about the Victoria Memorial Gardens in New South Wales. For other memorials to Queen Victoria, see Victoria Memorial (disambiguation).

Victory Memorial Gardens
Memorial Arch located in the Victory Memorial Gardens
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LocationWagga Wagga, New South Wales
Coordinates35°6′33.12″S 147°22′10.56″E / 35.1092000°S 147.3696000°E / -35.1092000; 147.3696000
Area2.02 hectares (5.0 acres)
Opened1925
Owned byWagga Wagga City Council
Gazetted13 February 1931[1]

Victory Memorial Gardens are located on the banks of the

Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney.[2] Work on the gardens started in 1928.[3]

In the midst of the war, there had been a proposal for a Memorial Arch to honour volunteer soldiers from

Anzac Day 1927 by Major-General C. F. Cox
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A cenotaph had been built earlier in 1922.[3]

In 2006, the Chisholm Fountain, previously located in the Civic Centre precinct, was restored and installed in the gardens in time for Anzac Day commemorations.

Notes

  1. ^ "Revised draft Plan of Management" (PDF). Somewhere Landscape Architects. Wagga Wagga City Council. May 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  2. ^ a b Morris 1999, p.87.
  3. ^ a b c "Victory Memorial Gardens". Junior Advertiser: Museum Man. Daily Advertiser Wagga Wagga. 25 April 2007.
  4. ^ Morris 1999, p.76.

References

  • Morris, Sherry; Fife, Harold. A history of the Wagga Wagga sub-branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia : 1918-1998. Wagga Wagga, NSW.: Wagga Wagga sub branch of the RSL, 1999.
    ISBN 0-909645-25-6

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