Boyup Brook
Boyup Brook is situated on the Blackwood River 269km.SE of Perth with a population of 700. The Memorial is located on the median strip directly opposite the Shire Office and is constucted from local stone. The front bears a bronze wreath bearing the legend "Lest we Forget" below which are two bronze plaques,both are headed "Died on Active Service",one refers to WW1 and records thirtythree names whilst the other is for WW2 and bears eighteen names. Across the road alongside the Shire Office is Sandakan Park containing a Memorial to those who died in North Borneo at Sandakan Camp and on the march to Ranau as prisoners of the Japanese. The front bears the plaque shown above which shows a map of North Borneo with the follwing message "This Memorial commemorates the 2000 Australians who died as prisoners of the Japanese at Sandakan Camp and on the death march to Ranau in North Borneo during 1944-45. Of the 2500 Australian and British P.O.W. in Sandakan - only 6 survived. Recorded are the names of the 130 Western Australian P.O.W. who died in Borneo. It's centrepiece is the original memorial erected by E.McLaughlin* of Boyup Brook in 1991." The western Australian names are given on brass plates attached to the other buttresses. Originally the WW1 War Memorial was the Soldiers Memorial Hospital located in Hospital Road which still houses the Honour Boards.
* 'Ted McLaughlin ex P.O.W. who worked on the Thai-Burma railway and knew many of those who died in Sandakan when they were prisoners together in Changi.