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The monument commemorates members of the 2nd / 28th Infantry Battalion and the 24th Anti-Tank Regiment who died in service or were killed in action during World War Two.
It lists the cemeteries where the members of these units are buried.
it is a cast metal depiction of the eternal flame. The flame stands on three tiers, each tier bearing brass plates of the names of campaigns in which these two units participated.
Location
| Address: | May Drive near Saw Avenue, Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Kings Park , 6005 |
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| State: | WA |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -31.962126 Long: 115.824579 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Monument |
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| Monument Theme: | Conflict |
| Sub-Theme: | WW2 |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 03-September-1939 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 15-August-1945 |
Dedication
| Actual Monument Dedication Date: | Sunday 8th October, 1961 |
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Plaque :
World War II
1939 - 1945
This commemorates the men of the 2 / 28th Infantry Battalion and 24th Anti Tank Company Australian Imperial Forces who gave their lives for their country
Defence Alamein Line
Plaque :
In two World Wars the 28th and 2 / 28th Infantry Battalions commemorate in cemeteries, memorials and Gardens of Remembrance over 2100 soldiers
Tobruk
Tobruk Libya1941
Tobruk War Cemetery
Inside the wire
[ Names ]
Knightbridge War Cemetery Acroma
Outside the wire
[ Names ]
El Alamein
El Alamein Egypt 1942
The Alamein Memorial
No known grave
[ Names ]
El Miteira
Qattara Track [ Ruin Ridge ]
El Alamein Egypt 1942
El Alamein War Cemetery
[ Names ]
Borneo Labuan Beaufort
Borneo
Labuan War Cemetery
[ Names ]
Ceylon
Colombo (Kanatte) General Cemetery
[ Name ]
Lae Nadzab Busu River Siki Cove
New Guinea
Lae War Cemetery
[ Names ]
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery
[ Names ]
Lae Memorial Port Moresby Memorial
[ Names ]
Scarlet Beach Gusicka Finschhafen
Australia
Cemeteries
[ Names ]
Gardens of Remembrance
Died as a result of service in the armed forces of the Commonwealth
791
Only the dead have seen the end of war ..... Plato
Tel El Makh Khad
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery
[ Names ]
Ismailia War Memorial Cemeteries Haifa
[ Name ] [ Name ]
Moascar Gaza
[ Name ] [ Name ]
Italy War Cemeteries
Milan Caserta Udine
[ Names ] [ Names ] [ Names ]
Germany Korea Poland
Berlin Pusan Cracow
[ Name ] [ Name ] [ Name ]
This memorial is a symbolic flame
It perpetuates the memory of those members of the 2/28th Battalion & 24th Anti-Tank Company who made the supreme sacrifice
Second World War 1939 – 1945
Lest We Forget
