'Trees of Tribute'

Event date: 25 Apr 2010

 

Click thumbnail to view all images.

ANZAC Day 25th April 2010 Discover Eumundi- Heritage & Visitor Centre

‘Trees of Tribute’ will celebrate the Memorial Trees of Eumundi on Anzac Day with a ‘field’ of red poppies installed at the main wreath laying site. It is planned to have a trail of messages and drawings from local school children running along the top of the wooden railings leading up to and surrounding the site. The poppy emblem was chosen because wreaths of red Flanders poppies are traditionally placed at memorials on ANZAC Day.  These poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare.

The Memorial Trees in Eumundi were planted during and after the First World War. Eighty-seven men from Eumundi and the surrounding district served in the First World War and the trees were planted to honour the twenty men who did not return.

Eumundi is one of the few towns in Queensland which does not display a monumental type memorial to the First World War. Memorial Drives of trees are relatively uncommon in Queensland, particularly those in which each tree is representative of a specific fallen serviceman.

Trees of Tribute Art Workshop

Discover Eumundi Heritage and Visitor Centre presents ‘Trees of Tribute’ ANZAC Day Memorial Parade April 25th.  Artwork by local schoolchildren.  Memorial Drive, Eumundi.

Attend a two hour free workshop at Discover Eumundi Heritage and Visitor Centre on Friday 9 April, 10am to noon. Children aged 7 years and upwards are invited to be involved in our TreeLine Trees of Tribute project, to learn more about Eumundi’s special trees planted in memory of those Eumundi men who died in WW1. Drawings will be created relating to the trees and Anzac Day that will be laminated and put on the top of the railings that run along side our biggest trees in Memorial Drive when the road is closed for the Anzac Day March on Sunday 25th April. Bookings are essential. Ph. 5442 8762.

Comments