ATC rotunda
- This cache is in a small container suitable for small swappables . This is cache 6 in our history trail.
- A friend and I had the idea of creating a history trail in and around Childers, highlighting different areas and historic moments within our small close knit community.
- Hints available but may contain spoilers.
- Apple Tree Creek is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was formerly known as Bodalla but was renamed in 1962. In the 2016 census, Apple Tree Creek had a population of 639 people.
- This memorial has outstanding significance as a relatively rare memorial band rotunda.
- The Apple Tree Creek War Memorial is situated in a fenced off area of the Apple Tree Creek recreation grounds, just off the Bruce Highway (the main road connecting Brisbane and Cairns). You can’t miss it as you exit the highway and enter the rest area. The central monument is huge and imposing, with a life-size World War I soldier figure (“Digger”) standing on top of a sandstone column. The structure is 18 feet (5.5 m) high.
- The Apple Tree Creek War Memorial honours seventy-seven local men who joined the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in World War I, including fifteen men who died. The names are listed on recessed marble panels on each side of the monument. The front panel contains the names of the fallen under the heading: “Erected by residents of Apple Tree Creek In Honour and Appreciation of those who paid the supreme sacrifice during The Great War, 1914-1919. Their Names Liveth Evermore.” The three remaining panels are devoted to those who returned, under the heading: “In Appreciation of the services of those who enlisted from Apple Tree Creek during The Great War, 1914-1919.”
- https://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/memorial?id=118
- https://judithsalecich.com/apple-tree-creek-world-war-i-roll-of-honour/
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