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The Tarrawingee Firefighter Memorial is beside the Great Alpine Road at Tarrawingee, East of Wangaratta in Victoria.
This monument commemorates ten firefighters who lost their lives nearby while fighting a disastrous fire on 22nd December 1943.
The first major fire of the 1943/44 season occurred near Wangaratta, killing ten people and burning hundreds of hectares of grassland.
The inscription on the monument reads: A TRIBUTE TOTHE MEMORY OF
KEVIN DUNKLEYJOSEPH (LOUIS) RYAN
ANDREW GUTHRIENORMAN ROBINSON
CLAUDE NILEEDWARD SEYMOUR
THEODORE LEAGODFREY SPENCER
JOHN MARKSA.W. WELLINGTON
WHO LOST THEIR LIVES NEAR THIS SPOT
WHILE FIGHTING THE DISASTROUS BUSH FIRE
ON 22ND DECEMBER 1943.
DUTY NOBLY DONE.
ERECTED BY
THE RESIDENTS OF THIS DISTRICT
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE.
Ken Stewart was a longtime member of Tarrawingee brigade, and would have been 21 when he was involved in fighting the disastrous fire. He died just one week shy of his 86th birthday in 2008. His memoirs at Tarrawingee 1943 fire remembered provide a most telling story of the fire and tragedy.
A Royal Commission into the 1939 Black Friday fires recommended a single firefighting authority for country Victoria, bringing together the Bush Fire Brigades, Country Fire Brigades and Forest Commission. The Tarrawingee fire added impetus to the push for improved management, and the Country Fire Authority commenced on 2 April 1945.
On May 4 2009 following a memorial service for the Black Saturday Bushfires, an additional plaque was unveiled at the CFA Training College at Fiskville, west of Melbourne, to commemorate the actions of the 10 volunteers who died in December 1943, while fighting the fire at Tarrawingee, near Wangaratta.
T4TC corunnaroad
Keith
This monument commemorates ten firefighters who lost their lives nearby while fighting a disastrous fire on 22nd December 1943.
The first major fire of the 1943/44 season occurred near Wangaratta, killing ten people and burning hundreds of hectares of grassland.
The inscription on the monument reads:
KEVIN DUNKLEYJOSEPH (LOUIS) RYAN
ANDREW GUTHRIENORMAN ROBINSON
CLAUDE NILEEDWARD SEYMOUR
THEODORE LEAGODFREY SPENCER
JOHN MARKSA.W. WELLINGTON
WHILE FIGHTING THE DISASTROUS BUSH FIRE
ON 22ND DECEMBER 1943.
DUTY NOBLY DONE.
ERECTED BY
THE RESIDENTS OF THIS DISTRICT
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE.
Ken Stewart was a longtime member of Tarrawingee brigade, and would have been 21 when he was involved in fighting the disastrous fire. He died just one week shy of his 86th birthday in 2008. His memoirs at Tarrawingee 1943 fire remembered provide a most telling story of the fire and tragedy.
A Royal Commission into the 1939 Black Friday fires recommended a single firefighting authority for country Victoria, bringing together the Bush Fire Brigades, Country Fire Brigades and Forest Commission. The Tarrawingee fire added impetus to the push for improved management, and the Country Fire Authority commenced on 2 April 1945.
On May 4 2009 following a memorial service for the Black Saturday Bushfires, an additional plaque was unveiled at the CFA Training College at Fiskville, west of Melbourne, to commemorate the actions of the 10 volunteers who died in December 1943, while fighting the fire at Tarrawingee, near Wangaratta.
T4TC corunnaroad
Keith
Rated: for Overall Experience.
