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Coolangatta Centaur Memorial and Walk of Remembrance
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Description
A steel pyramid supported by a 15 tonne pink granite stone from Turallin near Millmerran on the Darling Downs.
The bolder symbolises the ecology, the pyramid represents the spirit of those who died in the Centaur sinking and the whole effect is of flotation. The tip of the pyramid can be removed to expose an oil fuelled lamp which burns on the night of the anniversary of the sinking.
Scrolls containing the names of those on board are also contained in the pyramid.
A Walk of Remembrance leads from the memorial to the cliff top.
Inscription
Plaques per ship (1):
CENTAUR
AUSTRALIAN
HOSPITAL SHIP 3222 TONS
BUILT GREENLOCK SCOTLAND 1924
TORPEDOED BY
JAPANESE SUBMARINE OFF
SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND COAST
ON THE
14th MAY 1943.
CASUALTIES 268 LOST
(Names of Merchant Navy, Australian Army ship's Medical Corp Staff, 2/12 Field Ambulance, 2/12 Attached Personnel who perished or survived are listed. Please refer to additional images for list of names)
Plaque (2):
HMAS SYDNEY
AUSTRALIAN 7105 TONS
BUILT NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE 1935
SUNK BY GUNFIRE FROM
GERMAN RAIDER
KORMORON WEST OF CARNARVON.
W.A. ON THE
19th NOVEMBER 1942
CASUALTIES 645 LOST
Plaque (3):
USS PERRY
USA 1190 TONS
BUILT USA 1920
BOMBED AND SUNK BY
JAPANESE AIRCRAFT
IN THE DARWIN RAID ON THE
19th FEBRUARY 1942
CASUALTIES 80 LOST
Conflicts
World War II
Memorial type
Structure
Contributions
Shirley and Trevor McIvor; Queensland War Memorial Register
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