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Welshpool War Memorial Obelisk

Location

Main Street WELSHPOOL, South Gippsland Shire

File Number

Original Hermes No: 31033

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Welshpool World War 1 Soldiers' Memorial, comprising the memorial constructed by W Bird in 1920 and the associated flagpole and landscaping, and situated in Main Street, Welshpool.

Why is it Significant?
The Welshpool World War 1 Soldiers' Memorial is of local historic, aesthetic and social significance to the township and district of Welshpool.

Historically, it was the first memorial to be established in the former Shire of South Gippsland and expresses the significant effect that the First World War had upon small rural communities, and is related to the Avenue of Honour. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2) Aesthetically, the memorial is enhanced by its landscape setting that includes mature Canary Island Palms that are symbolic of victory.

Socially, the memorial is important as the focus of local remembrance day activities. (AHC criterion - G.1)

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