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
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
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

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

31 Oct 2022

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