Australia, Western Australia, Albany, Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, 1980
1980View of Princess Royal Harbour with Desert Corps Memorial in Albany
The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial stands at the summit of Mt Clarence. It is a recast of the original statue erected at Suez in 1932. The granite blocks are the originals from Suez and bullet marks can still be seen on them.
The statue is a copy of one originally forming part of a memorial which was erected at Port Said, Egypt and unveiled on 23 November 1932 by the rt. Hon. William Morris Hughes. It was irreparably damaged during the Suez Crisis in 1956. The masonry was salvaged and brought to Australia for re-erection on this site which, for many troops who sailed from King George Sound in 1914, was their last glimpse of Australian soil. It was unveiled by rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia on 11 October 1964.
Erected by their comrades and the Governments of Australia & New Zealand, the memorial commemorates the members of the Australian Light Horse, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, the Imperial Camel Corps & the Australian Flying Corps who lost their lives in Egypt, Palestine & Syria 1916 - 1918.
The memorial is the site of Albany’s Anzac Day dawn service on 25 April each year
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- Post 1945 , Australia, Western Australia, Albany, Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, 1960 (0.04km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, FLORANCE, 10 Light Horse (0.04km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, GRIBBLE, 10 Light Horse (0.05km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, MITCHELL, 10 Light Horse (0.61km away)
- DOUGLAS, CAPT FREDRICK, HOUSE (0.67km away)
- World War 1, Australia, Western Australia, 433 LIVESEY, 10 Light Horse (0.67km away)
- ALBANY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1924 (0.68km away)
- ALBANY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OPENING 1925 (0.68km away)
- ALBANY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STAFF 1966 (0.68km away)
- ALBANY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL C1925 (0.68km away)
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