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Vietnam War.  It was designed by sculptor Ken Unsworth AM and architectural firm Tonkin Zulaikha Harford, and was selected as part of a design competition in 1990.  The memorial received several awards in 1993, including merit awards from the Master Builders Association, Concrete Institute of Australia and the RAIA.

  Figure 50.  Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial
  Source:  Duncan Marshall

  Figure 51.  Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial
  Source:  Duncan Marshall

Desert Mounted Corps Memorial (also known as the 'Light Horse Memorial', erected 1968)
The sculpture by Raymond Ewers OAM is a replica of the original memorial designed by sculptor C Web Gilbert, and brought to fruition by Paul Montford and later Sir Bertram Mackennal, which stood at Port Said in Egypt.  The original was a memorial to those members of the Australian Light Horse Brigade, the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, the Imperial Camel Corps and the Australian Flying Corps who had lost their lives in the Middle East in World War 1.

The Port Said sculpture was attacked and smashed beyond repair during the Suez conflict in 1956.  Following lobbying by veterans, the remnants of the damaged memorial were later shipped to Australia where Raymond Ewers reconstructed the statuary.  The Ewers reconstruction was cast in bronze in Italy, and unveiled in Albany, WA, in 1964.  Albany was the place where ANZAC forces sailed from Australia.  Veterans associations, however, continued to press for the memorial to be placed in Canberra and, in March 1966, the government agreed to install a replica of the original memorial in Anzac Parade.  The cast bronze figurative sculpture was the second casting from the original moulds still held in Italy, and unveiled on Anzac Parade by Prime Minister John Gorton on 19 August 1968.  (National Heritage List citation;  Marshall and others 2010, pp. 72-73;  Australian War Memorial, letter of 29 August 2012)

  Figure 52.  Desert Mounted Corps Memorial
  Source:  Duncan Marshall

Boer War Memorial (erected 2017)
The memorial commemorates the military history of Australia during the Second Boer War (1899-1902).  The Australian Colonial Forces joined British forces in South Africa, united against the Dutch Afrikaner settlers known as Boers.  The area had been highly contested since the Napoleonic wars and when gold was discovered in the 1880s, hostilities broke out again.  By the end of the conflict, 23,000 Australians had served in the war.

The memorial was designed jointly by Pod Landscape Architecture and Jane Cavanough, and the sculptor was Louis Laumen.  The bronzes were cast by the Fundere Foundry in Melbourne.

  Figure 53.  Boer War Memorial
  Source:  Duncan Marshall

New Zealand Memorial (erected 2001)
The memorial commemorates the long cooperation between Australian and New Zealand, and the ANZAC experience.  A gift from the New Zealand Government,