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Beech Forest WWII Memorial

Location

Old Main Road BEECH FOREST, Colac Otway Shire

File Number

Original Hermes No: 45014

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45014 WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL
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Statement of Significance

The Beech Forest World War Two Memorial was erected in 1949 adjacent to Old Main Road. The WarMemorial is of historic and aesthetic importance to the Shire of Colac Otway. The War Memorial is historically important as a memorial to the Otway community, and illustrates the efforts made tocommemorate the sacrifices of the people of the district who died in the Second World War. A graniteobelisk, The War Memorial is aesthetically important in demonstrating traditional funerary monument composition techniques and materials. The War Memorial is of aesthetical importance, this being demonstrated in the structure's composition, scale and location amidst civic buildings, and is typical ofwar memorials in smaller regional towns. The War Memorial is historically important as the only known memorial erected by the Shire of Otway to commemorate the sacrifices of the district's residents in war.

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