Royal Australian Regiment Memorial | |
Country: | Australia |
Commemorates: | the campaigns of the Royal Australian Regiment in Korea, Malaya and Vietnam |
Unveiled: | 8 December 1976 |
Coordinates: | -33.8671°N 151.2069°W |
Nearest Town: | Sydney, Australia |
Designer: | Dennis Adams OAM |
Regimental Square is a war memorial in the Wynyard area in the city centre of Sydney, Australia. An upgrade of the area was expected to be completed by mid-2016.[1]
The memorial is in the form of a small, pedestrianised square, occupying the whole width of a section of Wynyard Street that adjoins George Street, a major thoroughfare. The memorial was erected to commemorate the campaigns of the Royal Australian Regiment in Korea, Malaya and Vietnam. A series of bronze sculptures of soldiers in action, are attached to a wall of Sydney sandstone, 8 metres long x 1.5 metres high. Dennis Adams OAM was commissioned, to create the memorial, by the Royal Australian Regiment Association, the funds acquired through subscriptions from members and friends, supplemented by a gift of $3,000 from the Government of South Korea. On 8 December 1976 the memorial was unveiled by the then Governor of New South Wales, Sir Roden Cutler.[2]