Monuments & Guards

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We went on a recent 4 day sojourn to monuments & monument guards as sadly time has marched on for the latter and they are very few and far between now.
A friend planned out a trip visiting what we could find but along the way we discovered a couple of unknown ones which we pictured.

We covered 2272.7 klms going up to Northampton on the inland road then down to Dumbleyung (Donald Campbell set the world water speed record here) which we visited.
We also called into allot of these little towns in one spot it was like the ppl just up and left photo's books ephemera just left as it was in the day.

So it will be a good journey for some and I'll try and remember the places but there were so many areas we went to,
I have included the plaques to share how some of these isolated and very small communities answered the call to arms in the worlds conflicts.
With the men gone women had to do the farming work with the deaths of so many this had a profound effect on these small towns, whose populations may of amounted to just a few families.

This lots Brunswick Junction at the start sadly the 25 pounder pics did not appear but my wife got a few which I'll post later.

[Sapper740]

Lest we forget.

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Collie RSL Hall, Leopard 1 & APC condition of getting the Leopards was they are to be welded shut and filled with concrete not sure on the latter West AU got 3 L 1's Collie, Bunbury & Geraldton.

(Some muppet stood there with their Oakley sunnies on!)

[Ovidio]

You make the Leopard look small...

[Aragorn243]

What is a monument guard? To me, that means a physical person, like at Buckingham Palace or the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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[What is a monument guard?]

I thought the acronym would fit as these pieces are normally found near our ANZAC monuments I could change it to silent sentinels but felt the first one a better fit.
They are getting fewer and farther between and it was planned to get as many as we could find in a reasonable scope of time we did discover 2 more a bonus for us.
We did 2272.7 klms in 4 days which is not a bad effort with allot of small backwater country towns gone through.

We found the only converted tank for farm use on display which I will get to again it's my wording on the trip we embarked on just trying to share some of our history with ppl who understand it and have an affinity with it, just trying to do my bit to honor all of those that never came home and all those that have served and still do.
Cheers.

[Aragorn243]

Sorry for being dense but I still don't understand what a monument guard is. Statues or those metal cutouts of soldiers in the first pic? I think this is one of those instances where we aren't speaking the same English LOL.

[Flying10uk]

Sorry for being dense but I still don't understand what a monument guard is.

In the UK we have "Gate Guardians" which are normally obsolete military vehicles or aircraft parked on display at the main gate of a base and we have "War Memorials" which are often, but not always, in the form of a stone cross. Many of these were constructed following WW1 and later the names of the WW2 fallen were often added. I believe that there is only one place in the UK with no memorial to the fallen of WW1. The cut out bits of metal are a recent thing which are laser cut bits of steel but I wasn't aware that anyone had come up with a fancy name for them.

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I wasn't aware that anyone had come up with a fancy name for them.

Not a fancy name F10 just my take on the matter and what they represent to me.
I will never forget that in 1914 Australia was a fledgling country of some 5 million souls notwithstanding our wounded the 60,000 KIA touched many families across the land the same may be said of the Boer war and WWII still a small nation.
Even now in 2023 we have only a population of 26,439,111 million people some cities in the world have that population alone !

So I jumped at the chance to document and share with the wider community some of the monuments what we found in our short travels if you google Western Australia's land mass you'll see its bigger than some European countries it would take years to go around getting them all.

(Western Australia's land mass 2.646 million km², Italy's 302,073 km², Germany's 357,592 km², United Kingdom 243,610 km²,
Switzerland 41,285 km², U.S.A 9,826,675 km2 so West Au makes up 26.92% the landmass of the entire U.S.A.)

Here's Brookton Pt II. (Use the magnify feature to better view the pics)

Cheers

[Flying10uk]

Not a fancy name F10 just my take on the matter and what they represent to me.

A question was asked and I attempted to answer it. I wasn't aware that anyone had come up with a name for the laser cut bits of steel springing up all over the place.