MOORA
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Moora with a population of 1687 is one of the larger Northern towns and is 172km. from Perth. The Memorial is located in a small park on the corner of Gardiner Road and Clinch Street and comprises a cross mounted on an eight sided base on a three step tier. The front side of the base bears a large and a small bronze plaque reading
"In Grateful Memory of the Men who Fell in the Great War and whose Names are Inscribed Hereon 1914 - 1919"
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"and those who fell in World War II 1939 - 1945"
Bronze plaques mounted on five sides of the base record the names of the fallen : WW1- 78, WW II- 14, Vietam- 1. Just inside the front wall is a small boulder bearing a bronze plaque in memory of fourteen soldiers of the 4th.Infantry Battalion who were killed on March 15th.,1943 when a mortar shell they were examining exploded,this accident occurred in the Army Camp just opposite the Memorial. During WWII Moora was an important Army base having 26 camps in and around the Town. A short distance from the Memorial is a field gun manufactured by the German Firm Krupps in Essen,it has Arabic characters engraved on the breech.