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The park, memorial gates and Soldiers' Memorial were commissioned by the Toowong Town Council and are important as a place for remembering the participation and deaths of local Toowong residents in the First World War, and as evidence of the impact of a major historic event.
Gympie and Widgee War Memorial Gates is a heritage-listed memorial at Mary Street, Gympie, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. The gates provide an entranceway on Mary Street (the main street of Gympie) through to the Gympie Memorial Park in Reef Street. The gates were designed by George Rae and built in 1920 by A L Petrie & Son.
In 1808 the town was subdivided, and the part still called Northampton was renamed "Gates" and incorporated on April 1, 1813, in honor of General Horatio Gates. In 1821 Monroe County was formed, including the town of Gates. Parts of the town were later detached to form the city of Rochester and the town of Greece, both of which now border the town.
Memorial Arch of Tilton (1882), Northfield, New Hampshire; Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch (1886), Hartford, Connecticut; Washington Square Arch (1892), Manhattan, New York City; War Correspondents Memorial Arch (1896), Gathland State Park, Maryland; Confederate Memorial (1902), Fulton, Kentucky; Confederate Soldier Memorial (1902), Columbus ...
A temporary war memorial was placed outside Leicester Town Hall in 1917. [10] A public meeting was held on 14 May 1919 (the fighting having ceased with the armistice of 11 November 1918), which led to the creation of a War Memorial Committee of 23 members to propose a suitable permanent memorial.
Memorial plaque for bandmaster Frederick Thomas Percival, 2015. Gympie Memorial Park was established in 1919–1921 as the Gympie and Widgee District Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Park, with a landscape design prepared by Brisbane's Parks Superintendent Henry (Harry) Moore and a focal timber bandstand designed by Brisbane City Council's architect Alfred Herbert Foster.
Gatesville is a town in Gates County, North Carolina, United States. [3] The population was 321 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Gates County. [5] History
The memorial honours the 122 local men who fell during the First World War and the gates honour the 377 who served and returned. The memorial is situated on the south-eastern corner of Leslie Park, which has been a recreational square and park for the town since the first surveys in the late 1840s. [1]