The Royal Australian Regiment Memorial
by Miroslava Jurcik
Title
The Royal Australian Regiment Memorial
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Royal Australian Regiment Memorial, Regimental Square, near Wynyard.
The memorial was opened in December 1976 by Lord Mayor Leo Port and NSW Governor Sir Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat, the longest serving Governor of NSW and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces in WW2 .
The Royal Australian Regiment Memorial is a memorial to the Australian infantry who fought and died in the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency, in Borneo and the Vietnam War.
Bronze sculptures of soldiers in action are fixed to a wall built of Sydney sandstone, 8 metres long and 1.5 metres high.
Bronze relief figures representing members of the regiment who served in:
Korea 1950 1953
Malaya 1955 - 1963
Borneo 1963 - 1966
Malaysia 1964 - 1965
Vietnam 1965 - 1972
The memorial is built on the site of the earliest Army colonial barracks, dating back to the early 1800s.
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