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From: "Anne Napier" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] Avenues of Honour, Wimmera / Mallee
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:45:55 +1100
References: <7.0.1.0.1.20060114120217.01956eb8@sebas.vic.edu.au>


Hello Daryl
Your researcher friend may already be aware of this, but if not, then the
contacts mentioned below may be of interest.
Regards
Anne Napier
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> Hi folks
>
> I have been contacted by a researcher for his University Honours
> Thesis, who is looking for any Avenues of Honour (loved or forgotten)
> that were planted in the Wimmera or Mallee regions. I would be happy
> to forward any clues or details on to him.
>
> Regards
> Daryl Povey
> Ballarat, Australia
> http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/

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----- Original Message -----
From: Annabel Neylon
To: undisclosed recipients
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 11:20 AM
Subject: Avenues of Honour Project

I recently attended the annual TREENET symposium in Adelaide, where a report
was given on the progress of the Waite Institute's research into avenues of
honour throughout Australia. At the moment, they are trying to locate,
research and assess all avenues of honour throughout Australia. We have
provided datasheets for research which we undertook for the Southern
Grampians Heritage Study, and thought that other consultants may be able to
do the same. The contact at TREENET is Sarah Cockerell, or go to
www.avenuesofhonour.org for further information.

I've copied the blurb from the site below

Annabel Neylon
Heritage Horticulturist & Consultant
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A National Project which aims to honour with a tree the memory of every
individual who has made the supreme sacrifice on behalf of all Australians,
by documenting,preserving and reinstating the original and establishing new
Avenues of Honour by the Centenary of Anzac in 2015.

At the inaugural National Street Tree Symposium in Adelaide in 2000 it was
proposed that more avenues of long lived tree species should be established
to improve the roadways across the country. This kindled an interest in what
had happened to the many memorial Avenues of Honour planted in the first
half century following the landing on Gallipoli by the Anzacs. It soon
became clear that no comprehensive National survey of memorial Avenues had
been undertaken, and that, as the Avenues had never been documented, it was
likely that many had disappeared and that many more would soon follow. The
condition of the few well known memorial Avenues was a cause of great
concern, and the urgent need to carry out proper assessments and remediation
was evident. With the expertise of the emerging Arboricultural profession in
Australia, we have a wonderful opportunity to restore fading avenues and to
replant those that have been lost.

Of course, these Avenues are not just about trees. They are primarily about
honouring the memory those lost in service. It is clear that each Avenue had
its own history; of campaigns, battalions, communities and individuals. It
was also clear that this history needed to be preserved. A major task of
this project is to gather this history and make it available on this website
and wherever the Avenues are located.

And so the Avenues of Honour 1915-2015 project was launched at the 2004
National Street Tree Symposium on September 2nd 2004. A dedication ceremony
followed, with the planting by delegates of 100 rosemary bushes - bushes
which originated from stock brought back by a wounded digger repatriated
from Anzac cove in 1915.

It is interesting to contemplate that if an Avenue was planted with a tree
for every person lost in service, at a spacing of 25-30m each side of the
road, the Avenues would stretch unbroken for 1600km - the distance between
Adelaide and Sydney. At the legal speed limit a traveller would pass two
trees for every second of the journey. No such single Avenue would ever be
considered, but with the construction of so many new freeways and tollways,
all of which require some expenditure on landscaping, there are numerous
opportunities to find suitable locations all around the country for new
Avenues of Honour.

This is an ambitious project which is dependent on the interest and
involvement of hundreds of Local, State and Federal Government bodies,
community organisations and RSL branches, and the millions of ordinary
Australians for whom Anzac Day 2015 will have a special and enduring
significance.

"Lest we forget"

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