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Avenue of honour

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An Avenue of honour is a memorial avenue of trees, with each tree symbolising a person. The tradition, which originated in the Goldfields region of Victoria, Australia, is an important part of Australian culture. There are 547 known avenues of honour in Australia, in all states and territories except the Northern Territory; of which over half are in Victoria.[1]

Description

Most avenues are in remembrance of those who fought or died in war, particularly World War I (1914–1918), although the earliest recorded avenues were planted in remembrance of Australia's participation in the Second Boer War (1899-1902).[1] Since soldiers were grouped by the place they were recruited, a military defeat often meant all of the men of eligible age from the town were killed in the same battle. Many of the avenue's trees include metal plaques naming the victims.

Planted in the first quarter of the twentieth century, many of these avenues feature large, established trees and exotic species.

Locations

Australia

New South Wales

Suburb / Town Street address Year planted Conflict honoured Planting Notes Image
Cowra [clarification needed] [2]
Manly Vale King Street 2005 Merchant Navy
personnel in WWI & WWII		 [3]
O'Connell [clarification needed] [citation needed]

Queensland

Suburb / Town Street address Year planted Conflict honoured Planting Notes Image
Yungaburra [clarification needed] [4]

Tasmania

Suburb / Town Street address Year planted Conflict honoured Planting Notes Image
Hobart [clarification needed] [citation needed][clarification needed]

Victoria

Several of these avenues are listed on the Victorian Heritage Register; most others are afforded local levels of heritage protection through the various Local government in Australia and the Victorian branch of the National Trust; however, many such avenues have since been affected by road development.

An online project titled "Avenues of Honour 1915-2015" was established by Treenet, the urban tree research and education organisation based at the University of Adelaide's Waite Arboretum.[1]

Suburb / Town Street address Year planted Conflict honoured Planting Notes Image
Addington [clarification needed] [5]
Anglesea [clarification needed] Flowering gums (corymbia ficifolia): 72 planted, only 3–4 remain [6]
Bacchus Marsh Bacchus Marsh Road 1918 WWI Dutch Elms: 281 trees were simultaneously planted on the call of a bugle; listed on the Victorian Heritage Register [7][8]
Ballarat Arch of Victory The longest avenue, being 22 kilometres (14 mi) long and containing 3,912 trees, listed on the Victorian Heritage Register [9][10]
Ballarat East Victoria Street A lesser-known avenue, once marked the eastern entrance to Ballarat. A handful of trees remain on one side of the road, the rest having been removed, most during construction of the rail flyover in the 1960s [citation needed]
Ballarat Orphanage Arthur Kenny Avenue [11]
Booroopki [clarification needed] [12]
Buchan South [clarification needed] [13]
Cranbourne South Gippsland Highway 1918–1919
  • WWI
  • WWII (later)
 Oaks: between 57 and 67, added to the Victorian Heritage Register;[14] and as of November 2001, 172 oak trees were extant, with the additional trees planted in honour of those who fought in subsequent conflicts [15]
Daylesford [clarification needed] [citation needed]
Digby [clarification needed] [citation needed]
Eurack [clarification needed] Listed on the Victorian Heritage Register [16]
Hotspur [clarification needed] [17]
Kingston [clarification needed] [18][19]
Kongwak [clarification needed] [citation needed]
Lakes Entrance [clarification needed] [20]
Lysterfield [clarification needed] [21]
Macedon [clarification needed] [22]
Macedon Ranges Macedon-Woodend Road [23]
Macleod Mont Park Asylum 1919 WWI Flowering gums [24]
[clarification needed] Strzelecki Avenue WWI [citation needed]
Wandin North [clarification needed] Flowering gums [25]
Woodend North [clarification needed] [citation needed]

Western Australia

Suburb / Town Street address Year planted Conflict honoured Planting Notes Image
Albany [clarification needed]
Armadale [clarification needed]
Kings Park May Drive|Lovekin Drive|Marri Walk [26]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Backhouse, Megan (8 June 2013). "Felled but not forgotten". The Age. p. 10.
  2. ↑ "Cowra Avenue of Honour". skp.co.au. Archived from the original on 30 April 2006.
  3. ↑ "King St Avenue of Honour". Register of War Memorials in NSW. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Home page". Avenue of Honour. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Addington Avenue of Honour". Avenues of Honour. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "Anglesea Avenue of Honour". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "Home page". Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "Ballarat Avenue of Honour". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "Ballarat Avenue of Honour". ballarat.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014.
  11. ↑ The Re-Discovery of Ballarat Orphanage's Arthur Kenny Avenue: Commemorative Booklet. Ballarat, Victoria. 9 November 2012.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  12. ↑ "Borookpi Avenue of Honour". ballaratgenealogy.org.au. Archived from the original on 21 August 2006.
  13. ↑ "Buchan South Avenue of Honour". Archived from the original on 14 March 2011 – via mc2.vicnet.net.au.
  14. ↑ "Avenue of Honour, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H2345, Heritage Overlay HO142". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
  15. ↑ Our Living Memorials: Avenues of Honour in the City of Casey (PDF). Victoria, Australia: City of Casey. November 2001. pp. 10–11. ISBN 0-9579886-0-5. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
  16. ↑ "Eurack Avenue of Honour". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  17. ↑ "Hotspur Avenue of Honour". ballaratgenealogy.org.au. Archived from the original on 12 July 2006.
  18. ↑ "Kingston Avenue of Honour". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria.
  19. ↑ Smith, Tim (9 April 2015), "Victorian Heritage Database Report: Avenue of Honour", Victoria Government Gazette (G14): 759
  20. ↑ "Lakes Entrance Avenue of Honour". Archived from the original on 20 February 2003 – via skp.com.au.
  21. ↑ "Lysterfield Avenue of Honour". rlcnews.org.au. Archived from the original on 23 August 2006.
  22. ↑ "Quercus palustris". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  23. ↑ "Macedon-Woodend Road Avenue of Honour". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  24. ↑ "Former Mont Park Asylum, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H1872, Heritage Overlay HO59". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
  25. ↑ "Avenues of Honour Map". Avenues of Honour 1915-2015 Project. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  26. ↑ "Honour Avenues Map". Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority. Retrieved 17 December 2016.

Further reading

  • Haddow, Janine (1987). Avenues of Honour in Victoria (Master of Landscape Architecture). University of Melbourne.
  • Taffe, Michael (2006). Victoria's Avenues of Honour to the Great War Lost to the Landscape (Bachelor of Arts (Hons.)). University of Melbourne.
  • Taffe, Michael (May–June 2006). "90th Anniversary of our Avenues of Honour". Australian Garden History Journal. 17 (5): 24.
  • Taffe, Michael (2012). "A New Nation – A New Landscape: Victoria's Great War Avenues of Honour". Australian Garden History Society Conference. [permanent dead link]
  • Taffe, Michael (2015). "Keeping Memory Green". Historic Gardens Review. 32: 18–21.
  • Taffe, Michael (2018). First World War Avenues of Honour: Social History through the Landscape (PhD Thesis). Ballarat: Federation University.

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