TOORA WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL
WELSHPOOL ROAD, and STANLEY STREET, TOORA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Toora World War 1 Soldiers' Memorial, erected in 1931, at the corner of Stanley Street and Welshpool Road, Toora.
Why is it significant?
The Toora World War 1 Soldiers' Memorial is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the town of Toora.
Historically, it is important as one of a series of similar memorials that were established throughout the Shire, and expresses the significant effect that the First World War had upon small rural communities. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2)
Socially, the memorial is important as the focus of local remembrance day activities. (AHC criterion - G.1)
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TOORA WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL - Physical Description 1
The Toora World War 1 Soldiers' Memorial is a square tapered grey granite column with a torus and scotia base and a simple stepped capital, standing on a split granite pedestal in the central reserve of the Welshpool Road. It is capped with a spherical light fitting surrounded by a hemispherical wrought bronze frame. The sunburst crest of the armed forces and the commemorations are on the sides of the column; "Erected by Toora & District residents in memory of those who served in the Great War. 1914-1918" - A list of those local residents who made the supreme sacrific then follows.
The Toora Avenue of Honour provides an appropriate and related visual setting.
Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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TOORA REALIGNMENT H3 TRAMWAYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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TOORA REALIGNMENT H4 ROADVictorian Heritage Inventory
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ST THOMAS' ANGLICAN CHURCH & PARISH HALLSouth Gippsland Shire
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1) ST. ANDREWS HOTEL AND 2) CANARY ISLAND PALM TREENillumbik Shire
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