Rocky Creek Memorial Park

Atherton, Queensland

LA3 was commissioned by Tablelands Regional Council to create a new war memorial for the Rocky Creek Memorial Park between Tolga and Walkamin. Rocky Creek was the location of the largest WWII military hospital in the southern hemisphere, a 3,000 bed hospital that treated over 60,000 wounded between 1943 to 1945. The park features plaques and colours of the various units associated with the hospital set on local granite boulders, the first being unveiled in 1995 the 50th Anniversary of Victory in the Pacific (VP Day). To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of VP Day, our new entrance walls and memorial with a sculpture by local artist Amanda Feher was unveiled at a moving ceremony. Amanda’s sculpture of a doctor and nurse with a soldier patient is based on a WWII photograph.