Members of the Brighton RSL Sub-branch laid a wreath at the new Memorial Walkway at Brighton Memorial Fields on Tuesday, 30 November.
Approximately 20 veterans, many in their late 70's and 80's from Brighton RSL Sub-branch inspected the Memorial Walkway that depicts all the conflicts where Australia service personnel have served.
Together with a group of local school children they laid a wreath to commemorate the sinking of the HMAS Sydney off the Western Australia coast with no surviving crew.
The Memorial Playing Fields and surrounding area was recently upgraded by Transport for NSW as part the M6 construction.
Transport for NSW consulted with the Brighton RSL Sub-branch before undertaking the upgrade that included removing the original Memorial Gates, opened by Sir Roden Cutler and the creation of a Memorial Walkway together with a Soldier with Reversed Arms at the site where the original gates stood.
The new memorial was also designed in consultation with the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
The Brighton Memorial is at the site where people would come to register for war service in WW1 and WW2.
The new memorial includes recognition of Indigenous Australians who served their country in war time.
It profiles Captain Reginald Walter Saunders, a Gunditjmara man who enlisted in 1940 and became the first Australian Aboriginal commissioned into the Australian Army in 1944."
The memorial highlights the history of Australia's presence during periods of conflict from World War I through to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A digital tour of Brighton Memorial Playing Fields has also been created for the public, creating an online presence for all to enjoy.
