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TOORA WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL
LocationWELSHPOOL ROAD, and STANLEY STREET, TOORA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Socially, the memorial is important as the focus of local remembrance day activities. (AHC criterion - G.1)
The Toora World War 1 Soldiers' Memorial, erected in 1931, at the corner of Stanley Street and Welshpool Road, Toora.
Why is it significant?
The Toora World War 1 Soldiers' Memorial is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the town of Toora.
Historically, it is important as one of a series of similar memorials that were established throughout the Shire, and expresses the significant effect that the First World War had upon small rural communities. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2)
Group
Monuments and Memorials
Category
War Memorial