The Ballarat Avenue of Honour is significant as the earliest known memorial avenue to have been planted in Victoria, and appears to have stimulated similar plantings throughout Victoria in the years 1917 to 1921. They predominate in Victoria with the greatest concentration in the Central Highlands around Ballarat. These avenues represent a new egalitarian approach in the commemoration of soldiers where service rank was not a consideration and are illustrative of a peculiarly Australian, populist and vernacular response to the experience of the First World War. They had declined in popularity as a means of commemoration by the time of the Second World War The Ballarat Avenue is the longest avenue of honour in Australia and, composed of exotic trees planted along a major road, is a dominant landscape feature in the low farming country with a powerful social message. http://www.ballarat.com/avenue.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/7957387@N05/1193551682/ http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/1617079
I believe this is the man on the photograph ...... but he wasn't a casualty !! Lieutenant Colonel William Kinsey Bolton CBE, VD (2 November 1861 – 8 September 1941 was the commanding officer of the Australian 8th Battalion AIF during World War I for the landings at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He was a Nationalist Senator from Victoria from 1917 to 1923.
