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Swan Hill War Memorial

Location McCallum Street SWAN HILL, SWAN HILL RURAL CITY File Number Original Hermes No: 54795 Level -

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Statement of Significance

The War Memorial plantation, on the west side of Campbell Street between the two lanes of McCallum Street, is of local historical and aesthetic significance. Erected c.1919 and remodelled in the 1950s, the memorial is an important focus for the collective remembrance of historic and recent conflicts, and the local people who served in them. This has especial significance to Swan Hill as a town with a background of Soldier Settlement in the 1920s and again in the 1940s. Aesthetically, it is a distinctive and prominent element on the otherwise largely commercial Campbell Street streetscape, and it makes an important contribution as one of numerous war and municipal monuments along the McCallum Street plantation. The formal arrangement of conifer trees makes an important contribution.