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Messines Mural by Nicky Create and Adam 'Tarns' Poole-Mottishaw 2022. Messines Avenue, Edwardstown. Commissioned by City of Marion
Created by Nicky Create and Adam 'Tarns' Poole-Mottishaw in 2022, this mural acknowledges the Battle of Messines and the heritage of the site. Messines Avenue is lined with significant World War 1 Memorial of Honour English Elm trees planted in 1917. The road was used by the community to acknowledge service at both world wars and held events such as street dances, fairs and ANZAC marches.
The mural includes:
Soldiers and a nurse (Sister Jane Sweeney a WW1 nurse who lived locally);
Poppies and wattles;
Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League badge;
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces badge;
1914 – 1918 WW1 Service Medal Trio;
War scene images, the scars war leave on the landscape, colour patches of infantry battalions.
Mural located on Messines Avenue, Edwardstown.
