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Commando Memorial : 06-October-2012
Photographs supplied by Graeme Saunders
A monument commemorates three soldiers who were caught in a rip and died during a commando training exercise in 1960.
Location
| Address: | Hesse Street , Shortland Bluff, Queenscliff, 3225 |
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| State: | VIC |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -38.2736 Long: 144.658611 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Monument |
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| Monument Theme: | Disaster |
| Sub-Theme: | Maritime |
| Actual Event Start Date: | 17-February-1960 |
| Actual Event End Date: | 17-February-1960 |
| Link: | http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/centres/p… |
Dedication
Front Inscription
Source: MA,ACPHIN MEMORIAM
17 February 1960.
On This Stormy Night These Soldiers
Were Lost In The Rip During
A Commando Training Exercise.
WO2 G Drakopoulos 2 Commando Company
PTE R Wood 2 Commando Company
PTE E Meyer Melb Water Transport Unit
“I’ll have you learn to sleep upon the ground,
March in your armour through watery fens,
Sustain the scorching heat and freezing cold,
Hunger and thirst, right adjuncts of the war,
And after this to scale a castle wall,
Besiege a fort, to undermine the town
And make whole cities caper in the air”
Tamburlaine — (to his sons).
Christopher Marlowe.
Tamburlaine the Great
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