Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor has congratulated the Bungonia community on the completion and dedication of a living monument to Gallipoli.        

With the help of a Federal grant of $2,493 through the Anzac Centenary Local Grants Programme, the Bungonia Gallipoli Grove picnic area recognises the service of seven men and women who went to Gallipoli from the Bungonia district.

Mr Taylor attended a dedication of the picnic area last Wednesday with community members.

“This is a fitting community tribute. A great deal of thought and time has gone into this memorial and I congratulate everyone involved,” Mr Taylor said.

Set in parkland near the existing war memorial in Bungonia Village Park, the Gallipoli Grove includes a new picnic area designed to be a shared community and family space.

Anne Wiggan from the Bungonia Park Trust described the plantings as having special significance: 13 olive trees symbolise endurance and hardship, five pin oaks represent the northern theatres of war and three crabapple trees provide a renewal of flowers each Spring.

Caption: Angus Taylor with members of the Bungonia community who contributed to the Bungonia Gallipoli Grove picnic area from back left; Linda Burridge, Manager, Goulburn Community Corrections; Margo Crossley trustee and treasurer Bungonia Park Trust, Christine Chenoweth from Goulburn Community Corrections, Moira McGinity past park trustee, archivist and president of Bungonia and District Historical Society Inc; stone mason John Motley Stone Profile Bungonia, Angus Taylor, Erin Kelly from Bunnings Goulburn. At front: Jackie Neill Bungonia Park Trust trustee, Anne Wiggan trustee secretary of Bungonia Park Trust and Rob Manning of Bunnings Goulburn.