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Several descendants
of these Nieder-Weisel pioneers
have raised enough
money to have
a memorial erected in Nieder-Weisel as a
tribute to these courageous people
who travelled half-way around the world to start a new life on the Victorian
goldfields, and to the enormous contribution that they made to our society.
The memorial, which
has the blessing of the Nieder-Weisel civic authorities, will take the form of a bronze bas-relief by
Victorian artist Dr Ross Bastiaan, whose work can be seen at a number of
locations in Australia, and at several
WW1 and WW2 sites such as Gallipoli, northern France,
and the Kokoda Track. Pictured below are two of Ross's works: a plaque on the
Great Ocean Road (southern Victoria) with Ross standing next to it, and the
memorial at Mouquet Farm in the Somme Valley
of northern France.
The
Nieder-Weisel
memorial will be unveiled on 3 October 2010 - details of the plaque and plans
for its unveiling are set out on the website
www.niederweiselmemorial.com.
 
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