List of Australian military memorials

Most Australian towns and cities have a World War I or ANZAC, and/or World War II memorial or Cenotaph.

Listing and photographs are by state and territory:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Australian Capital Territory - Canberra

Memorial name	Location	Date established/ dedicated	Image	Honours	Notes
ACT Memorial	London Circuit, Civic	10 August 2006 (2006-08-10)		Men and women associated with the Australian Capital Territory who served in a number of conflicts and peacekeeping missions throughout the world.	[1]
Australian Army Memorial, Canberra	Anzac Parade, Canberra			The two central figures represent two Australian soldiers facing the east and the rising sun, and represent the importance of support and comradeship represented in the Australian term, 'mates'.
Australian Merchant Navy Memorial	Kings Park, Canberra	7 October 1990 (1990-10-07)		Australian Merchant Navy
Australian Peacekeeping Memorial	Southern end of Anzac Parade	14 September 2017 (2017-09-14)
Australian War Memorial	Treloar Crescent, Campbell, Canberra	1941 (1941)		Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia, and some conflicts involving personnel from the Australian colonies prior to Federation. The memorial includes an extensive national military museum.
Boer War Memorial, Canberra	Anzac Parade, Canberra	31 May 2017 (2017-05-31)		Military history of Australia during the Second Boer War, 1899–1902.
Korean War Memorial, Canberra	Anzac Parade, Canberra	17 September 1999 (1999-09-17)		Australian individuals that served and died in the Korean War under the command of the United Nations.
Royal Australian Air Force Memorial	Anzac Parade, Canberra	15 March 1973 (1973-03-15)		50th anniversary of the formation of the RAAF (initially as the Australian Air Force, the "Royal" prefix being added in August 1921), and the service of members of the RAAF.
Rats of Tobruk Memorial	Anzac Parade, Canberra	12 April 1983 (1983-04-12)		The German siege of the Libyan Mediterranean Sea port town of Tobruk began on 10 April 1941. After desperate fighting, most of the Australian forces were relieved by October 1941. However, the town was continuously contested until the Allied victory at El Alamein in 1942.
Royal Australian Navy Memorial	Anzac Parade, Canberra	3 March 1986 (1986-03-03)		The sailors who have served to protect Australia.
Vietnam Forces National Memorial	Anzac Parade, Canberra	3 October 1992 (1992-10-03)		The 50,000 Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Australian Air Force and associated personnel who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

New South Wales

Memorial name	Location	Date established/ dedicated	Image	Honours	Notes
Batemans Bay Vietnam War Memorial	Batemans Bay	2005 (2005)		Vietnam War (1962–1973)
Batlow War Memorial	Batlow				RSL garden and memorial with Bofors 40/60 anti-aircraft gun
Berrima War Memorial	Berrima
Braidwood War Memorial	Braidwood
Bundarra War Memorial	Bundarra
Bungendore War Memorial	Bungendore
Chatswood Memorial Garden	Chatswood
				World War II
Culcain War Memorial	Culcairn
Forbes Boer War Memorial	Forbes			Boer War
Forbes War Memorial	Forbes
Rolls of Honour	School of the Arts Hall, Glen Oak			World War I
	Greta
	Gundagai
	Gundaroo
	Jugiong
	Milton
	Mittagong
	Mittagong RSL
	Narrabri
	Nerriga
	Parkes
Anzac Memorial	Hyde Park, Sydney central business district	1934		Originally World War I, now all conflicts.
Martin Place Cenotaph	Martin Place, Sydney	1929	A side view of the Martin Place Cenotaph
	Tarago
	Thornton	1978
War Memorial	Thornton
District Roll of Honour	Tumbarumba
District Volunteers South African War 1899–1902				Boer War
Memorial Hall
Union Jack Gold Mining Company Memorial	Approx. 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Tumbarumba			World War I
	Tweed Heads
	on the Clarence River, Ulmarra
Victory Memorial Gardens Arch	Wagga Wagga
	Wellington
Yininmadyemi - Thou didst let fall	Hyde Park, Sydney

Memorials for people

Person memorialised	Location	Date established/ dedicated	Image	Notes
Private Patrick Joseph Bugden VC	Alstonville

Northern Territory

Memorial name	Location	Date established/ dedicated	Image	Honours	Notes
Darwin Bombing Memorial	Darwin, Northern Territory			Commemorating the 1942 bombing of Darwin

Queensland

The Queensland War Memorial Register is maintained by the Government of Queensland in collaboration with local government authorities in Queensland and the Returned and Services League of Australia. It was established in 2008 and, as at 14 November 2017, lists 1398 war memorials in Queensland.^[2][3]

The war memorials in Queensland take many forms but are predominantly either outdoor monuments, memorial buildings or memorial components within other structures. Notable war memorials include:

• Anzac Square, Brisbane
• Anning Monument
• Anzac Avenue Memorial Trees
• Anzac Memorial Park, Townsville
• Apple Tree Creek War Memorial
• Aramac War Memorial
• Atherton War Memorial
• Baralaba, Queensland
• Barcaldine Shire Hall
• Barcaldine War Memorial Clock
• Beaudesert War Memorial
• Berry and MacFarlane Monument
• Boer War Memorial, Allora
• Boer War Memorial, Gatton
• Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park
• Boonah War Memorial
• Booval War Memorial
• Brooweena War Memorial
• Bulimba Memorial Park
• Bundaberg War Memorial
• Bundaberg War Nurses Memorial
• Cairns War Memorial
• Cardwell Divisional Board Hall
• Caskey Monument
• Charleville War Memorial
• Chinchilla Digger Statue
• Cleveland War Memorials
• Coorparoo School of Arts and RSL Memorial Hall
• Cooyar War Memorial
• Coronation Lamp War Memorial
• Cunnamulla War Memorial Fountain
• Dalby War Memorial and Gates
• Enoggera Memorial Hall
• Esk War Memorial
• Eumundi War Memorial Trees
• Evelyn Scrub War Memorial
• Finch Hatton War Memorial
• First World War Honour Board, Lands Administration Building
• First World War Honour Board, National Australia Bank (308 Queen Street)
• Forest Hill War Memorial
• Gair Park
• Gayndah War Memorial
• Goombungee War Memorial
• Goomeri Hall of Memory
• Goomeri War Memorial Clock
• Goondiwindi War Memorial
• Graceville Memorial Park
• Greenmount War Memorial
• Gympie Memorial Park
• Gympie and Widgee War Memorial Gates
• Herberton War Memorial
• Howard War Memorial
• Ipswich Railway Workshops War Memorial
• Isis District War Memorial and Shire Council Chambers
• Ithaca War Memorial
• Koumala War Memorial
• Linville War Memorial
• Lt Thomas Armstrong Memorial
• Ma Ma Creek War Memorial
• Manly War Memorial
• Maroon War Memorial
• Mary Watson's Monument
• Miriam Vale War Memorial
• Mitchell War Memorial
• Montville Memorial Precinct
• Mowbray Park and East Brisbane War Memorial
• Our Lady of Victories Catholic Church
• Oxley War Memorial
• Paroo Shire Honour Board
• Pilot Officer Geoffrey Lloyd Wells Memorial Seat
• Pimpama & Ormeau War Memorial
• Pinkenba War Memorial
• Queens Gardens, Brisbane
• Queensland Korean War Memorial
• Rockhampton War Memorial
• Roma War Memorial and Heroes Avenue
• Sandgate War Memorial Park
• Sarina War Memorial
• Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane
• Sir William Glasgow Memorial
• Soldiers Memorial Hall, Toowoomba
• South African War Memorial, Brisbane
• St Andrew's Presbyterian Memorial Church, Innisfail
• St Monica's War Memorial Cathedral
• Stanthorpe Soldiers Memorial
• Stanwell, Queensland
• Strathpine Honour Board
• Temple of Peace (Toowong Cemetery)
• Tieri War Memorial
• Tobruk Memorial Baths
• Toogoolawah War Memorial
• Toowong Memorial Park
• Townsville West State School
• Traveston Powder Magazine
• Trooper Cobb's Grave
• Victor Denton War Memorial
• War Memorial Bridge, Brooweena
• Warwick War Memorial
• Weeping Mother Memorial
• Westbrook War Memorial
• Windsor War Memorial Park
• Woody Point Memorial Hall
• World War I Cenotaph, Mackay
• World War I memorials in Queensland
• Yeppoon War Memorial
• Yeronga Memorial Park

Brisbane

Anzac Square

• 
  Shrine of Remembrance, Anzac Square
• 
  Shrine of Remembrance Anzac Square façade, showing the lower section which contains the crypt with the World War II Shrine of Memories
• 
  Second Boer War Memorial
• 
  World War I Memorial Sculpture on the external wall of the Shrine of Memories section of the Shrine of Remembrance
• 
  World War II Memorial
• 
  South West Pacific Campaign Memorial
• 
  Korea Malaya Borneo 1948-1966 Memorial
• 
  Vietnam War Memorial

Brisbane CBD

• 
  RAAF Memorial
  at Queens Gardens
• 
  The Eagle on top of
  the RAAF Memorial
  at Queens Gardens
• 
  Statue of Major-General
  Sir William Glasgow
  at Post Office Square

Brisbane suburbs

• 
  Dutton Park War Memorial, Dutton Park
• 
  Cameron Rocks War Memorial, Hamilton
• 
  Anning Monument, Hemmant
• 
  ISA War Memorial, Inala
• 
  Indooroopilly Fallen Sailors and Soldiers Monument, Indooroopilly
• 
  Oxley War Memorial
• 
  Ithaca War Memorial, Paddington
• 
  War Memorial,
  South Brisbane
• 
  War Memorial, The Gap
• 
  War Memorial, Windsor

Monument to non-Australian forces

• 
  Monument to the United States forces for their help in World War II. The monument is in the grounds of Newstead House, Newstead

Regional Queensland

• 
  Queensland Korean War Memorial, Gold Coast Highway, Cascade Gardens, Broadbeach
• 
  Babinda
• 
  Cairns
• 
  Cooroy
• 
  Eacham
• 
  Esk
• 
  Boer War Memorial, Gatton
• 
  Goondiwindi
• 
  Innisfail
• 
  Millmerran
• 
  Port Douglas
• 
  Runaway Bay
• 
  Southport (from 2010) - gates and statue
• 
  Southport (from 2010) - statue
• 
  Southport (pre 2010)
• 
  Tiaro
• 
  Upper Coomera
• 
  Warwick

South Australia

Memorial name	Location	Date established/ dedicated	Image	Honours	Notes
South African War Memorial	North Terrace, Adelaide	1904		Boer War	Designed by sculptor Adrian Jones
National War Memorial	Cnr. North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide	25 April 1931		World War I	Designed: Woods, Bagot, Jory & Laybourne-Smith Sculptures: Rayner Hoff

Tasmania

Tasmania has over 1000 war memorials, including memorial plantings and honour rolls.

Memorial name	Location	Date established/ dedicated	Image	Honours	Notes
Hobart Cenotaph	Hobart	13 December 1925
Ulverstone War Memorial	Ulverstone
West Ulverstone War Memorial	Ulverstone
Ross War Memorial	Ross
Bicheno War Memorial	Bicheno
Bicheno Memorial Gate	Bicheno
Cygnet Soldiers Memorial	Cygnet
Stanley War Memorial	Stanley
Burnie War Memorials	Stanley
Queenstown War Memorial	Queenstown
New Norfolk War Memorial	New Norfolk
Railton War Memorial	Railton
99th Regiment Memorial	Hobart
Hagley War Memorial and Recreation Park	Hagley
Launceston Boer War Memorial	Launceston
Launceston War Memorial	Launceston
Legerwood Carved Memorial Trees	Legerwood	15 October 1918
Ranelagh Soldiers Memorial Hall	Ranelagh
Sorell Memorial Hall	Sorell
Huonville War Memorial	Huonville
Primrose Sands War Memorial	Primrose Sands

Victoria

Memorial name	Location	Date established/ dedicated	Image	Honours	Notes
	Bonnie Doon
	outside HMAS Cerberus, Crib Point
	Corryong
	Eildon
	Flinders
World War I memorial	Kalorama			World War I
	Jamieson
	Mansfield
Shrine of Remembrance	Kings Domain, Melbourne	11 November 1934 (1934-11-11)		For the Australian soldiers of all wars post World War I
	General Post Office, Melbourne
	Merrijig
Montrose Memorial and Garden	Montrose
Sassafras Memorial and Garden	Sassafras
Seymour Vietnam Veterans Memorial	Seymour			Vietnam War
Torquay War Memorials	Torquay
War Memorial garden	Wangaratta
Yarra Glen Memorial and Hall	Yarra Glen
Australian Turkish Friendship Memorial	Kings Domain, Melbourne			Commemorates WWI fallen soldiers and is a tribute to Australian-Turkish relations

Western Australia

As of 2015^[update] there are more than 900 "war memorials and related objects" in Western Australia.^[4]

Perth metropolitan

• Axford Park memorial obelisk^[4]
• North Fremantle Fallen Soldiers' Memorial^[4]
• East Fremantle Roll of Honour^[4]

Kings Park

Kings Park in Perth includes several war memorials.^[4]

• 
  State War Memorial

• Tobruk War Memorial
• Vietnam War Memorial
• Kings Park has several "honour avenues". These avenues are lined with trees, each tree having been planted in the memory of an individual who died in the war. A plaque in front of the tree identifies each person.

Monument Hill, Fremantle

The Monument Hill Memorial Reserve on High Street has several memorials.^[4]

• 
  Fremantle War Memorial or Fallen Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial

• Merchant Navy Memorial
• Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam Memorial
• RAN Corvettes Memorial
• United States Submariners' Memorial

Rockingham

HMAS Orion fin and HMAS Derwent gun turret at Naval Memorial Park

The Rockingham Naval Memorial Park, opened in 1996, is dedicated to the Royal Australian Navy and its activities during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.^[5] The memorial consists of three main parts, a walk way with commemorative plaques, the HMAS Orion fin and the HMAS Derwent gun turret.

The Rockingham War Memorial, opened in 2005, commemorates Australian servicemen and women from the district who died in service or were killed in action in conflicts involving Australia.^[6]

Albany

Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Mount Clarence

Albany has several memorials.^[4]

• Albany War Memorial
• Anzac Peace Park
• Apex Drive Honour Avenue
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk statue and Atatürk Entrance
• The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial on Mount Clarence
• RSL Nurses' Memorial Garden
• The Gallipoli Pine, Mount Clarence
• The South East Asia memorial in the Princess Royal Fortress
• National Anzac Centre, including the "Still On Patrol" memorial and the Merchant Navy Memorial

Outside of Australia

• Australian Memorial Park – France
• Australian War Memorial, London – England
• Mont Saint-Quentin Australian war memorial – France
• V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial – France
• Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial – France

See also

• Military of Australia portal

• Military Memorials of National Significance in Australia
• Virtual War Memorial Australia