Monuments & Guards

[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.

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[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.

[CINDERS]

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.