The Mount Barker Soldiers Memorial Avenue was established on the 1st of July 1920 to commemorate the local people who served in World War One. This was located on Wellington Road, Mount Barker, in South Australia.The Avenue now exists as a new planting of Magnolia trees along the linear trail through Keith Stephenson Park with […]
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The Mount Barker Memorial tree planting was intended to commemorate the local people who served in World War One. This may be located on Mann Street near the Bowling Green in Mount Barker, South Australia. On the 10th of October 1918 the decision was made to plant an avenue of trees at Mount Barker as
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The genesis of this replacement memorial avenue was the need to accommodate and honour important community history, generate public interest from outside the district, kindle local civic vitality and resolve on going tree management issues associated with the original avenue, located along Wellington Road. The establishment of a World War One soldier’s memorial for 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.
