Monuments & Guards

[CINDERS]

Pic # 1 ~ A small country town called Popyanining (Pop - ya - nin - ing) where monuments feature in these sorts localities for those that went away, a bit of countryside, open plain but not that open more to follow on that one.

The black bird at 3:00 in Pic # 3 is a crow (Raven for you guys) they are opportunistic scavengers that I take great pleasure in dusting I have personally witnessed them pecking the eyes out of a ewe still alive that has gone down with a lamb in a breach birth.
Any sick animal they like the foxes go for the soft areas eyes, lips, rear areas of animals does not matter if dead or alive also crows are very adept at stealing eggs from chook runs and know the difference between a rifle and a stick which has been proven many times by me and hunting buddies.
And like a fox do not miss because they become even more gun shy best results I had was at a sheep shed, winged one then kept him there poked the barrel out of the louvered window picked 5 out of the trees who came to see ol' squawking mate!

Then the 25Pdr at Brookton (2 parts to this stop)

[Sapper740]

Pic # 1 ~ A small country town called Popyanining (Pop - ya - nin - ing) where monuments feature in these sorts localities for those that went away, a bit of countryside, open plain but not that open more to follow on that one.

The black bird at 3:00 in Pic # 3 is a crow (Raven for you guys) they are opportunistic scavengers that I take great pleasure in dusting I have personally witnessed them pecking the eyes out of a ewe still alive that has gone down with a lamb in a breach birth.

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting—
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

[browningautorifle]

a crow (Raven for you guys)

Very different birds. We have them both here as natural habitat. The crows can be big but the ravens are huge and unmistakable. You can hear the hiss of their wings as they fly and they don't "Caw" but instead chortle. The two don't co-mingle either.

[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

[Sapper740]

CINDERS, I noticed all the artillery pieces are painted the same color which appears to be a shade of 'Battleship Grey". It's the same in Canada so I suspect that when these pieces were put in place they wanted a resilient and long lasting paint to protect them from deteriorating. I imagine there is no paint as tough what the Navy's of the world used. Similar to you, I set out to catalogue all the statues, cenotaphs and guardians in and around Vancouver, B.C. and environs. This was decades ago, pre-digital cameras and all my prints from then have vanished unfortunately so no pics. I do remember my favorite piece was an Ordnance QF 17 pdr anti-tank gun which I found in Cloverdale B.C., painted grey, of course.

[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.

[Aragorn243]

There are monuments everywhere in the states although the idiots are tearing a lot of them down these days, especially in the south. In my town, there is an artillery piece in the park although it disappeared a couple months ago, hopefully to be repainted. A tank on one of the main streets and a Memorial to Dick Winters on the rail trail, this is the most recent addition. Probably others but I can't think of them at present. There are four veterans' organizations in town, and I think each has their own something, just can't remember what two of them are. I live in a high Mennonite area, so war memorials aren't as prominent here as in most other places. We don't have a Civil War soldier in the square which is pretty standard everywhere else.

[CINDERS]

I noticed all the artillery pieces are painted the same color which appears to be a shade of 'Battleship Grey"

The B Ship grey I think refers to captured weapons where as you'll see our gear is OD green that's how I feel it works.

[CINDERS]

Not in real good nik but at least covered plus and airline disaster that claimed all on board.

I also managed to sit in a few of these 2 seater Vampires at RAAF base Pearce when I was a young lad with my brother when he was on duty crew weekends.

Also got to tour a C130 as well and to me being so young I thought the Herc was huge until my brother told me about the Starlifter......!

Sadly getting out after 20 years in the RAAF as an Engine fitter and Flt Sgt within weeks and just before he started with Qantas.
He died on his wifes b/day at 43 years of age far to young......

He was so well regarded in the service they did a guard of honour for him at the church and cemetery.
And to cap it all the missing man formation of Macchi's* over his grave site at the cemetery as we lowered his coffin into the ground.
* The aircraft No.04 which he had worked on was being retired from service that very day so had its final flight leading that formation as a tribute to my brother.

RIP Barry thanks for your memories still missed today 33 years on.

Pics
# 5 Macchi 04 taking off on the flight.
# 6 Barry 3rd from left leaning against aircraft Amberley? (Might be Pearce A/B)
# 7 GOH at Karrakatta cemetery and yep it was raining.

You can just see me mid pic with green shirt on in the distance.