Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff visited our Bridgewater workshop to see a set of steel moulds our team fabricated for the Headstone Project — a group of volunteers who place official headstones on the unmarked graves of Australian veterans.
Afterwards, he shared the following:
There’s something really quite special that I wanted to share with you tonight 🇦🇺 💙
The very best of Tasmania on full display.
Brett here, and his team at Liverpool Engineering Works are one of the local businesses benefitting from the Bridgewater Bridge project.
They’re proud to be part of one of the biggest projects in Tasmanian history, and when they heard about an opportunity to help honour the heroes of World War One, they jumped at the chance.
It’s not widely recognised, but thousands of Australian veterans are currently lying in unmarked graves across the country.
These soldiers, sailors and airmen served our country in places like Gallipoli and the Western Front.
They were the very best of us.
And they deserve to be honoured.
But if their eventual passing wasn’t as a result of their war service, their families didn’t receive support for a memorial.
That’s where the Headstone Project comes in.
They’re a group of volunteers who travel across the State, placing official headstones and holding touching memorials for each gravesite they restore.
The moulds you see here, have been specially made by Brett and his team, to help the Headstone Project with their incredible work.
A terrific Tasmanian, who didn’t think twice about helping a group of volunteers honour some of our greatest Australians.
There’s nothing better
We were proud to help. You can read more about the volunteers behind this work at the Headstone Project.