Planted to perpetually remind us of the very sombre beginning of WW1 in Europe, progeny of this original, special tree (image on left), now feature in the landscape of the British Military Cemetery in Etaples, France. “These incredibly significant trees are living reminders of all those who have served, sacrificed and suffered,” says Tim Johnson, […]
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Australia’s War Memorial Oak (Quercus robur), the very first known WW1 commemorative tree to be planted by any of the allied nations, anywhere in the world, will be 108 years old on the 29th August 2022. It can be clearly identified outside the southern entrance to the new Adelaide Oval. This significant living memorial was
There are more than 600 known Avenues of Honour across our country, and details of each is recorded on a central website. Giant figs planted in 1915 in South Australia’s Normanville recognise volunteers to the Great War, cypress trees in Lara Victoria commemorate servicemen of WW2, and flame trees in far-north Queensland remember those lost
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Visitors to the Sunshine Coast’s famous Eumundi Markets enjoy the shade of Memorial Drive’s mature figs, camphor laurels and lilly pillies, but few shoppers will know the significance of the trees, or the stories of the men and grieving families they remember. Between 1914 and 1918, 87 sons of Eumundi and the surrounding district enlisted
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In 1915 a wounded digger from Adelaide was repatriated to the Army Hospital at Keswick. He brought back with him a small rosemary bush dug up from the slopes and ravines of the Anzac Cove and it was planted in the hospital grounds. For decades small sprigs of the digger’s rosemary were worn to honour
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Dr Brendan Nelson delivered a powerful story at a recent National Press Club of Australia address at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra on the 19th September 2018. “We’re all Australians now: 1918 and the War that changed us”. 1918 was the last year of the First World War. It was the year in which Australia
A special memorial avenue has been constructed in Samford to commemorate the upcoming ANZAC Centenary. The Avenue of Honour comprises a 700m walkway, alongside which 20 large hoop pines have been planted, to honour the 20 local servicemen killed in both world wars and the Korean war. Another 80 smaller trees will bring the total
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It’s easy to assume that remote settlements and their Avenues of Honour have faded into obscurity for all time. Not so over on the west coast region of South Australia at Chandada. Courtesy of passionate relatives, interest is emerging to help acknowledge and restore a World War II avenue for 30 boys who enlisted from
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We know of at least 600+ Avenues of Honour spread across Australia. Some Avenues go back as early as the Boer War of 1899-1902, but the vast majority were planted before and after the First World War of 1914-1918. The Avenues of Honour Project is identifying and documenting all existing and lost Avenues of Honour and the
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TREENET’s Avenues of Honour project is a national initiative to document, preserve, promote and reinstate the original Avenues of Honour and to establish new commemorative trees, comemmorating Australia’s war service encompasing plantings from Boer War, WW1, WW2 and all subsequent conflicts.
