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.

[Daan Kemp]

A guard can be anything that protects. It may also symbolise protection.

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This is the Narrogin memorial I took quite alot of pics here as it is such a beautiful monument and area so will be in 2 lots.

I have a question on the spelling of one area of conflict where the Aussies pretty much told HQ to get stuffed after being severely decimated I feel it may be the French way of spelling it but those of you in France or speaking its language may be able to enlighten us as to the spelling.
Cheers
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Narrogin Pt II

The spelling I queried was Pozieres as on the monument it is Pozifres as to me it seemed odd anyone have input into this.