Cunnamulla War Memorial Fountain

Cunnamulla War Memorial Fountain is a heritage-listed memorial at John Street, Cunnamulla, Shire of Paroo, Queensland, Australia. It was built. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.HistoryIt is not known by whom the Cunnamulla War Memorial Fountain was designed. The concrete memorial honours those who fell during the First World War. The names of the fallen are not listed on the memorial, but on an honour board in the Civic Centre. Indeed, if not for an inscription, the fountain would be difficult to identify as a war memorial.By 1920 the Paroo Shire Council had decided to erect a war memorial fountain in the centre of Cunnamulla town. However, it appears that the memorial was not erected immediately as in July 1924, the masonry firm of Andrew Lang Petrie, Brisbane wrote to the Paroo Shire Council offering designs. In September 1926, the Paroo Shire Council and the Diggers' Racing Club agreed to erect a fountain, expecting it to be in place in time for the Diggers' Carnival on 11-13 November that year. Little is known about the design of the fountain; however there is an identical fountain (not a memorial) in the New South Wales town of Wellington, indicating that it was a stock line and not specially commissioned. It is unclear if there was an official unveiling ceremony, but on 26 November 1926 a photo of the "newly constructed Soldiers Memorial Fountain at Cunnamulla" appeared in a newspaper.