User:AYArktos~enwiki/sandbox/War Memorials in Australia

Monuments
Most World War 1 monuments in Victoria and New South Wales cost between £100 and £1000, one in five between £1000 and £2000, and a few more than that. (It has been estimated that £100 in the 1920s was roughly equivalent to $8000 (Australian) in 1998.)

Types of monuments:

buildings
for example, hall, clock tower, swimming pool

Clock tower in Boorowa

structure
for example, rotunda, gate

Rotunda in Avoca, Victoria Arch in Wagga Wagga - some controversy ove erection



scupture
for example, soldier, representation of peace

Braidwood, New South Wales: soldier

Myrtleford, Victoria:





obelisk
Tilba Tilba

Major municipal monuments
for example


 * Sydney: ANZAC War Memorial completed in 1934
 * Melbourne: Shrine of Remembrance dedicated in 1934
 * Brisbane: Shrine of Remembrance dedicated in 1930
 * Australian War Memorial the national memorial located in Canberra

External references

 * Register of war memorials in WA


 * Register of war memorials in NSW


 * An overview of Queensland memorials


 * information about major war memorials