By VICTORIA STONE-MEADOWS
A NEW War Memorial in Silvan dedicated to returned servicemen from World War I will be unveiled later this month.
The memorial is the work of Wandin Rotary Club who wanted to honour the ex-soldiers who settled in the Silvan area after the Great War.
The memorial will be located halfway between Monbulk and Wandin, outside the Silvan Primary School.
Two soldiers in particular honoured with this memorial are Sir William Rooke Creswell and Major William Scurry.
Major Scurry was the inventor of a self-loading gun used against the Turkish in the trenches of Gallipoli, and later settled in Silvan as an orchardist.
Considered the father of the Royal Australian Navy, William Creswell retired in 1919 and took up farming in the Silvan area.
The Wandin Rotary club raised funds and provided labour for the building of the memorial that has been one-and-a-half years in the making.
The foundations have been laid and a large stone along with plaques will be added to the site in coming weeks to finish off construction of the memorial.
The memorial will be unveiled and dedicated to all the retuned servicemen of the area on Sunday 24 April, at 2pm.
