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About Gympie Memorial Park

Gympie Memorial Park is a legacy recorded memorial at River Road, Gympie, Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. It was structured by Harry Moore and Alfred Herbert Foster and worked from 1919 to 1921. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 September 2009. Gympie Memorial Park was set up in 1919– 1921 as the Gympie and Widgee District Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Park, with a scene configuration arranged by Brisbane's Parks Superintendent Henry Harry Moore and a central timber bandstand planned by Brisbane City Council's planner Alfred Herbert Foster.

The park was opened on 20 April 1921 however the main authority work in the park was a deliver to His Royal Highness Edward, Prince of Wales, amid the Prince's visit to Gympie on 3 August 1920. Supported to a great extent by network membership and based ashore given by the Henderson family, proprietors of Ferguson and Co's. Union Sawmills, the memorial park was expected as an enduring tribute to the subjects of the city and its region who had passed on for their nation amid the Great War of 1914– 1918 and the Boer War of 1899– 1902. The bandstand raised in the park in 1919– 1920 is likewise a memorial to a previous and much-regarded neighborhood bandmaster, Mr Frederick Thomas Percival.

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