Historical information
The posters are photographs of monuments in and around Melbourne. All have a side with the name Palestine.
These monuments commemorate the presence of Australian soldiers in Palestine during World War I and their role in the 1917 British capture of Bir Sab'a (Beersheba).
Comparative Monument (Palestine), 2012. Proposition for a monument, articulated as nine stacks of 1000 two-sided off-set printed posters for visitors to take away. Posters were also pasted up around Ramallah
Physical description
Nine posters - white card and colour image. Information written in English and Arabic
Inscriptions & markings
Palestine
Subjects
References
- Comparitive Monuments .1 Avoca Soldiers Memorial: Dedicated c November 1921. Plaque for World War Two added 25 November 1988. .2 Caulfield War Memorial: Dedicated in 1932. Later inscriptions were added for those who served in the Second World War. .3 Coburg War Memorial: Unveiled in 25 April 1924. Since been rededicated to the Second World War, Korea, Borneo , Malay, Vietnam and UN Peacekeeping Missions. .4 Donald War Memorial: Dedicated in 1921. Names of those who lost their lives in the Second World War were added at a later date. .5 Kew War Memorial: Dedicated Sunday 30 August 1925. The names of 163 soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice and the names of 753 soldiers who served are on three sides of the memorial. .6 Longwarry War Memorial: Dedicated Wednesday 12 November 1919. Plaques in memory of those who died in the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam were added. .7 Mooroopna War Memorial: Dedicated Wednesday 25 April 1928. . 8 North Melbourne War Memorial: Dedicated Sunday 11 July 1926. Additional plaques have been added to commemorate those who have died in service or been killed in action in various conflicts since the end of World War One; Korea,Malaya, Sabah Sarawak, Malay Peninsula and Vietnam. .9 Terang War Memorial: Dedicated Sunday 15 April 1923. Plaques have been added to commemorate later conflicts - World War Two, Korea, Vietnam.
