Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial was devoted on Friday, 6 February 2004. It is situated on the southern ways to deal with the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, on Wendouree Parade and nearby Lake Wendouree. Between the 1990s surviving detainees of war from the Ballarat district met frequently and different plans for the foundation of a point of convergence for celebration were occasionally examined. All through that time the Australian Federal Government had given occasional endeavors that a changeless landmark would be in the long run worked in Canberra.

By the mid 1980s, the Ballarat City Council conceded a bundle of land contiguous the city patio nurseries to permit nearby veterans a place to set up a perpetual point of convergence for the Ballarat POWs. By the mid-1990s the Australian Federal Government still had no arrangement for a lasting landmark to be built up in Canberra, in this manner the surviving POWs in Ballarat were provoked enthusiastically and started arranging the working of a perpetual dedication in their city to be to a great extent secretly subsidized and set up with least government help with critical help from the Ballarat part of the Returned and Services League of Australia, a neighborhood stone carver, Peter Blizzard, was charged to plan an idea for the remembrance.