*Memorial Way No.3 Atherton Qld

This week we feature the Atherton War Memorial, west of Cairns in Queensland. Queensland memorials will be a regular feature of Memorial Way thanks to the generosity of the authors of Salute the Brave – A Pictorial Record of Queensland War Memorials, Shirley and Trevor McIvor, of Toowoomba, who have allowed the FFFAIF to use the images from their book.

Copies of Salute the Brave – A Pictorial Record of Queensland War Memorials are available by contacting projectfffaif@yahoo.com.au .

The cover illustration of the book features:

The Atherton War Memorial

The memorial was dedicated on Anzac Day 1924 and portrays the only Digger on a Queensland memorial in an action pose. He does not carry a rifle; he is wearing a tin hat and gas mask haversack on his chest and carrying a scroll in his left hand.

The front of the memorial reads:
This Monument is Dedicated to the Glorious Memory of the Men of the Atherton Tableland who fought and paid the supreme sacrifice in The Great War

Below are portraits of five of the soldiers listed on the Atherton Memorial. Click on the arrow below the portraits, to view photos.

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The reverse panel of the memorial lists the Fallen of World War II.

The Atherton Memorial can be found in E.P. (Digger) Hole Gardens on the corner of Main & Cook Streets at Atherton Tablelands, 82kms west of Cairns (17^o15’45” S. 145^o28’39”E)

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The Families and Friends of the First AIF thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers – presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood – dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds Minister Snowdon and his British counterpart, Parliamentary Under–Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.