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Diamond Creek War Memorial

Location

28 RESERVE CIRCUIT & MAIN HURSTBRIDGE ROAD DIAMOND CREEK, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Diamond Creek War Memorial located near the junction of Reserve Circuit and Main Road Diamond Creek (28 Main Road Diamond Creek), comprising red granite column surmounted with an urn, on a red granite plinth, with square Harcourt grey granite base and red granite panels to left and right of the base. Inscriptions and plaques on the column, plinth, base and panels.
How is it significant?
The Diamond Creek War Memorial is of local historical, representative, aesthetic and social significance to the Shire of Nillumbik.
Why is it significant?
The Diamond Creek War Memorial is historically significant for its role in civic commemoration in the township of Diamond Creek. The Diamond Creek War Memorial was unveiled on the west side of the intersection of Collins and Main Street, opposite the Diamond Creek Hall on 19 June, 1921. The memorial was transferred to the grounds of the Diamond Creek kindergarten in the 1970s and again relocated to Main Street next to Diamond Creek Community Centre. At this time it was rededicated and panels included commemorating the loss of lives in conflicts since World War One. The Memorial is historically significant for demonstrating the type of monumental memorialisation that occurred in townships following the end of the First World War. (Criterion A) The Diamond Creek War Memorial is aesthetically significant for its red granite construction and with a column rather than obelisk form, which was more common for the period. (Criterion E) The Diamond Creek War Memorial is an intact representative example of a First World War Memorial. (Criteria D) OFFICIAL The Diamond Creek War Memorial is of social significance as a community focus for the commemoration of war in the Diamond Creek district since it was unveiled in 1921. The Memorial has special associations with the local RSL group. (Criterion G)