Coen War Memorial
Cape York Heritage House, Regent Street
Coen QLD 4895
Black granite memorial featuring a laurel wreath and ode of remembrance.
- Inscription
LEST WE FORGET
THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD,
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD.
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM,
NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN.
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.ERECTED BY THE COEN COMMUNITY
2015- Conflicts commemorated
- First World War, 1914–1918
- Second World War, 1939–1945
- Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960
- Korean War, 1950–1953
- Vietnam War, 1962–1972
- Gulf War, 1990–1991
- Somalia, 1992–1994
- Peacekeeping, 1947–present
- Memorial type
- Stone/cairn/plinth
- Recorded by
- Kate Eastick, Cook Shire Council
- Date recorded
- 12 August 2015