INTERACTIVE signs will take visitors on a World War I tour across Greater Dandenong.
The council will install markers at nine historic locations in Dandenong, Noble Park and Springvale starting the week after Anzac Day.
The former Dandenong Town Hall, now the Drum Theatre, will be the first site and was where recruits signed up to enlist.
Visitors will be able to link their mobile phones to the boards to access information. A new one will be installed each month until Remembrance Day.
Locations will include:
– The Dandenong Drill Hall, which was built in 1916 and used to drill citizen soldiers in compulsory military training;
– The Noble Park settlement, which was purchased to house returning soldiers;
– Dandenong Primary School, where students rose to the challenges of supporting the war effort;
– Mechanics Institute Springvale, which opened in 1915 and hosted WWI fund-raisers;
– Dandenong Market will be used to commemorate the 8th and 58th Battalions, which eight Dandenong men served in;
– Red Cross Dandenong Branch, which was formed in 1914;
– Peace Memorial Bridge, Dandenong, which is one of few surviving engineering works constructed during WWI.
