Upper Coomera Shire War Memorial (Digger)
Oxenford and Tamborine Road
4km west of Pacific Highway
Upper Coomera QLD 4209
The life-sized digger stands with eyes down and arms reversed on a typical Petrie base. The sandstone memorial stands on granite blocks surrounded by a white wooden fence with white corner piers. It is on the top of a hill at Upper Coomera. The front of the slouch hat has been broken off. There is a flagpole to the immediate right of the memorial.
The memorial is on a wide stretch of bitumen between the entrance to a property, Bonnie Brae, and the Tamborine Road.
- Inscription
The main marble plaque reads:
This memorial was erected by the residents, in honour of the brave lads of the Coomera district who fell in the Great War 1914-19.
They gave their all.
Let you who pass, saluting here their names,
See that through you no slur, nor stain, nor shame
Falls on the land for which they gave their lives - AUSTRALIA.Please refer to 'View additional information or images' on this page for further inscriptions/images.
- Conflicts commemorated
- First World War, 1914–1918
- Second World War, 1939–1945
- Memorial type
- Statue
- Additional information
The model for this digger was Arthur Rex Fell.
- Recorded by
- Dennis Stocks
- Date recorded
- 18 March 2009