War Horse Memorial, Adelaide |
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Title : | War Horse Memorial, Adelaide |
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Source : | PRG 280/1/38/344 | ||
Date of creation : | 1923 | ||
Format : | Photograph | ||
Dimensions : | 120 x 185 mm | ||
Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Description : |
The War Horse Memorial; a granite horse-trough built as a memorial to horses which took part in World War 1 photographed in its original position in Victoria Square west, Adelaide, South Australia. This memorial was later re-erected in Rundle Park on the corner of East Terrace and Botanic Road, Adelaide. |
Coverage year : | 1923 |
Period : | 1914-1918,1919-1927 |
Region : | Adelaide city |
Further reading : | Bou, Jean. Light Horse : a history of Australia's mounted arm, Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2009 Inglis, K. S. Sacred places : war memorials in the Australian landscape, Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1998 Cameron, Simon. Silent witnesses: Adelaide's statues and monuments, Kent Town, S. Aust: Wakefield Press, 1997 Perry, Roland. The Australian light horse : the magnificent Australian force and its decisive victories in Arabia in World War I, Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2009 |
Internet links : | AIF Database: Australian Anzacs in the Great War 1914-1918 [Australian Defence Force Academy] Australian Light Horse Association Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs] Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: First World War 1914-1918 Official history of Australia in the war of 1914-1918 [Australian War Memorial] |