By Jeremy Sollars
A lunch and auction event held last Sunday at the Warwick Golf Club to raise funds for a new war memorial wall and dais in Warwick’s Leslie Park is likely to be the last major fund-raiser for project, with the $80,000 target now within sight.
The Warwick Community Development Anzac Memorial Committee is on track to have the new memorial wall and dais in place in time for Anzac Day 2018.
The new memorial wall – to be built near the existing Leslie Park Cenotaph – will commemorate every conflict in which Australians have served, from the Boer War to Afghanistan.
The dais will be a permanent stage for Anzac Day and other wartime commemorations, with a temporary stage currently used at those events.
But a particular emphasis of the memorial wall itself is on recognising the service of younger veterans – in post-Vietnam conflicts like Somalia, Rwanda, Bougainville, East Timor, the Solomon Islands and Iraq and Afghanistan.
Memorial committee spokesman Johnno Felton said the group was confident the remaining funds for the project would come from government grants, but donations from the public would still be gratefully accepted.
They can be made at any branch of the Warwick Credit Union or by contacting Johnno on 0467 612 342.
