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North Brother Mountain War Memorial

North Brother Mountain War Memorial
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4 sided, black pyramid style memorial, with mounted plaques
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4 sided, black pyramid style memorial, with mounted plaques
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4 sided, black pyramid style memorial, with mounted plaques
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Description / Background

Black stone obelisk standing approximately 1800mm high with a base of 800x800mm sitting on a 1200x1200mm slab. It contains a time capsule to be opened in 2115. The memorial is decorated on each side with:

  • Front - 1904 Gold Rising Sun with a picture of Anzac Cove beneath it. Further inscription on the front describes the monument and information about a time capsule enclosed in it.
  • Left - a picture of the Victoria Cross and information about the 10 recipients of the award during the Gallipooli Campaign.
  • Right - a picture of Simpson and his Donkey with information about what they did during the Gallipoli Campaign.
  • Back - the RSL logo and inscription commemorating Indigenous military service in the First World War.

The memorial is located at the North Brother Lookout.

Inscription

Front

[Etching of the Rising Sun]

[Photo of Anzac Cove]

Anzac Cove

This monument was erected to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Landings of Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915.

The monument contains a time capsule containing memorabilia from Ex Service Organisations within the Lyne Electorate and was unveiled to Commemorate Anzac Day 2015.

The time capsule will be opened in 100 years on the 25th April 2115.

Lest We Forget

Front - door of the time capsule

This site has been chosen as it is the highest coastal point in the Lyne electorate. The spirit of the men from Lyne who served during WWI looks out upon the towns, waters and farms from whence they came.

Unveiled by

RSL National President Ken Doolan AO RAN (Retd)

Lyne Electorate Member for Parliament Dr David Gillespie

Left

[Victoria Cross]

Australia

Lcpl. Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, AIF

2nd Lt. Hugo Throssell, 10th Light Horse, AIF

Capt. Alfred Shout, 1st Battalion, AIF

Lt. Frederick Tubb, 7th Battalion, AIF

Cpl. Alexander Burton, 7th Battalion, AIF

Cpl. William Dunstan, 7th Battalion, AIF

Pte. John Hamilton, 3rd Battalion, AIF

LCpl. Leonard  Keysor, 1st Battalion, AIF

Lt. William Symons, 7th Battalion, AIF

New Zealand

Cpl. Cyril Bassett, NZ Divisional Signals, 1NZEF

Listed above are the 10 recipients of the Victoria Cross the highest award for bravery from the Gallipoli campaign. Including 9 Australians and 1 New Zealander 7 VC’s were awarded for the Battle of Lone Pine alone one of the fiercest battles in Australian and New Zealand Military History 6-9 August 1915.

Cyril Bassett is quoted to have said “Hundreds of VC's should have been awarded for that battle”

Permission has been granted to reproduce the image of the Victoria Cross from the Official Office of the Secretary of the Governor General

Right

[Simpson and his Donkey]

Simpson and his Donkey at the foot of Shrapnel Gully, Gallipoli

John Simpson Kirkpatrick was a stretcher bearer with the Australian Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli.

Simpson landed on the shores of Gallipoli on the 25th April as part of the Anzac forces and later obtained the help of a donkey. He evacuated more than 300 wounded men from the front lines to receive help at the casualty clearing station until he was later killed by machine gun fire whilst assisting two wounded soldiers to the beach at ANZAC Cove on the 19th May 1915.

He was buried on the beach at Hell Spit at the Southern end of Anzac Cove, Gallipoli.

Simpson and his donkey are a part of the Anzac legend and whose image is synonymous with the Gallipoli campaign.

Monument created by D Robinson of the Kendall RSL sub-Branch

Back

[RSL Logos]

The Returned and Services League of Australia, New South Wales Branch, within the Lyne electorate recognises the commitment and sacrifice Australian Aboriginal servicemen made during the First World War.

When war broke out in 1914, many Indigenous Australians who tried to enlist were rejected on the grounds of race; others slipped through the net telling recruiters they were of Maori, Indian or Pacific Islander decent. 

Today the bodies of those that fell in the battlefields of Gallipoli, France and Belgium remain with their mates, thousands of miles away from their ancestral homes.

Lest We Forget

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Address
Dooragan National Park
Captain Cook Bicentenary Road
North Brother NSW 2443
Local Government Area
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
Setting
Garden/park
Memorial type
Obelisk
Recorded by
Darren Robinson
Year of construction
2015
Dedication date
06 August 2015
Conflict/s
First World War, 1914–18