Almost every population centre in Australia has a war memorial round which citizens gather on 25 April, ANZAC Day, to pay tribute to young men and women who left their homes, trained hard, and combined in times of conflict to ensure our freedom.
Steps lead from the pathways up to the Shrine, which is 10 metres in diameter and consists of a Grecian Doric circular colonnade of 18 columns representing the year of peace, 1918. Written around the top coping are the names of the battles in which Australian units figured prominently - ANZAC, Cocos Islands, Romani, Jerusalem, Damascus, Pozieres, Bullecourt, Messines, Ypres, Amiens, Villers-Bretonneaux, Mont St Quentin, Hindenburg Line.
In the centre is the Eternal Flame of Remembrance, set in a bronze urn with the word Remembrance repeated around the bottom. The impressive memorial made of Helidon sandstone with steps of Queensland granite, was dedicated at 11am on Armistice Day, Tuesday, 11 November 1930.
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