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Desert Mounted Corps Memorial

Author

National Trust of Western Australia

Place Number

00034
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Location

Apex Dve Albany

Location Details

Summit of Mt. Clarence

Other Name(s)

Lone Pine Memorial
Mt Clarence WW1 Monuments

Local Government

Albany

Region

Great Southern

Construction Date

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents More information
Heritage List Adopted 27 Oct 2020 City of Albany
Military Memorial National Significance YES 30 Jun 2015 Heritage Council
State Register Registered 29 Nov 1996 Register Entry
Assessment Documentation
Heritage Council

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management More information
Category Description
Municipal Inventory Adopted 30 Jun 2001 Category A+

Category A+

• Already recognised at the highest level – the WA State Register of Heritage Places. Redevelopment requires consultation with the Heritage Council of WA and the City of Albany. • Provide maximum encouragement to the owner under the City of Albany Town Planning Scheme to conserve the significance of the place. • Incentives to promote heritage conservation should be considered.

City of Albany
Local Heritage Survey Adopted 27 Oct 2020 Exceptional

Exceptional

Essential to the heritage of the locality. Rare or outstanding example.

City of Albany
Classified by the National Trust Classified 04 Apr 1977

Heritage Council
Statewide War Memorial Survey Completed 01 May 1996

Heritage Council
Register of the National Estate Permanent 21 Mar 1978

Heritage Council

History

Assessment 1970
The monument stands almost at the summit of Mt Clarence, Albany, overlooking King George Sound. The 30ft bronze monument shows two mounted horsemen confronted by a bursting shell. It bears the inscription “Australia and New Zealand 1916 – 1918. This statue is a copy of one originally forming part of a memorial which was erected at Port Said and unveiled on 23 November 1932 by the Rt Honourable W.M. Hughes, K.C., M.P. It was irreparably damaged during the Suez crisis of 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. Unveiled by Rt Hon. Sir Robt Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia on 11 October 1964. Erected by their comrades and the Governments of Australia and New Zealand in memory of the members of the Australian Light Horse, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles , the Imperial Camel Corps and the Australian Flying Corps who lost their lives in Egypt, Palestine & Syria, 1916 – 1918.”
The Original Statue: Messrs Stevenson and Meldrum of Melbourne were the architects; Messrs Roberts, Rosswell and Laughton (Melb.) supplied the stone (Gabo Island granite) for base and screen wall. Three sculptors worked on the project. The original sculptor, C. Webb Gilbert, died before it was completed. Others were Paul Montford and Sir Bertram Mackennal who completed it. The bronze figures were cast in England. After the trouble I 1956, the damaged memorial and granite base were shipped to Albany in 1960.
Re-erection of the granite was by Albany stonemason, Howard Hartman. Melbourne sculptor, Raymond Ewers made a new case of the bronze figures, adding touches of his own. The plaster cast was sent to Italy to Battagli Bros, Milan for casting in bronze.

State Heritage Office library entries

Library Id Title Medium Year Of Publication
1944 Albany heritage park : draft management plan. Report 1987

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use MONUMENT\CEMETERY Monument
Original Use MONUMENT\CEMETERY Monument

Architectural Styles

Style
Inter-War Stripped Classical

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Other METAL Bronze
Other STONE Granite

Historic Themes

General Specific
OUTSIDE INFLUENCES World Wars & other wars

Creation Date

30 May 1989

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Approved

Last Update

31 Oct 2022

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