Cowra Soldiers Memorial Avenue

The avenue of trees located along the Boorowa and Grenfell Roads are associated with great historical significance and represent an important era in Australian wartime history.

The Boorowa Road and Grenfell Road were selected by the Australian National Women's League of Cowra during 1917 as an ideal location to plant 465 trees in remembrance of all the Australian soldiers from the Cowra district who served their country during the first World War.

The trees were planted on Arbour Day 1917 and all trees used in the original planting were donated by the Sydney Botanical Gardens. The Avenue was officially opened in 1918 with the deputy premier of NSW and senior military officials present on the day. The Boorowa Road section of the Avenue was located on the road that linked Cowra with Canberra, the site of the National War Memorial.

Each soldier was allocated a tree, with a register detailing the event, unfortunatly the trees and the soldiers' details were not corresponded in the field, which has made it difficult to match the trees up with existing records.

Over the years, Memorial Avenue has been restored with missing trees to represent the updated number of soldiers listed on the Honour Roll.