MEMORIAL & COMMEMORATIVE STATUES FOR DEFENCE & COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY PROJECTS We work in partnership with our clients to see their projects realised. Monumental sculpture commissions include the Cameron Baird VC MG sculpture at Currumbin RSL, Queensland, and the centrepiece for Bundaberg’s Bargara Foreshore Memorial.
DEFENCE PROJECTS We work equally well with units when based in Australia or deployed. NAKED ARMY has completed monumental sculpture for DEFENCE units, with our sculptures installed as far afield as the Multinational Base at Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan.
DEMONSTRATED CAPABILITY NAKED ARMY products are regularly used by VIPs and DEFENCE leaders and units as presentation pieces and awards. We have completed projects for ADF units including 2RAR, 7RAR, School Of Infantry, RMC Duntroon, SOCOMD, 2CDO, and SASR.
Unveiling the new Vietnam War Memorial at Land Warfare Centre Canungra QLD. Click on the image for more on the project. (PHOTO: KOKODA YOUTH FOUNDATION)
Naked Army’s sculpture forms the centrepiece for LWC Canungra’s Vietnam Memorial relocation project.
(PHOTO: KOKODA YOUTH FOUNDATION)
VIETNAM MEMORIAL RELOCATION PROJECT - LWC CANUNGRA QUEENSLAND
This collaborative relocation effort at Land Warfare Centre Canungra was spearheaded and coordinated by Kokoda Youth Foundation, and involved veterans, and local architects, local trades, and facilitated by ADF personnel. The sculpture forms the centrepiece of the Memorial and represents an Australian serviceman on patrol during the early Vietnam War period, and is orientated to look into the early morning sun as it rises on 18 August, an acknowledgement to the Battle of Long Tan.
COMMUNITY PROJECTS We work in partnership with our clients to see their projects realised. Monumental sculpture commissions include the Cameron Baird VC MG sculpture at Currumbin RSL, Queensland, and the centrepiece for Bundaberg’s Bargara Foreshore Memorial shown above (PHOTO: ELIZA GOETZE).
The BARGARA project included a permanent Memorial plinth and the rifle & slouch hat are put in place as part of Anzac Day and Remembrance Day ceremonies.
CAMERON BAIRD VC MG sculpture receives final treatment at our foundry partner Australian Bronze in Manly NSW.
CAMERON BAIRD VC MG MEMORIAL SCULPTURE CURRUMBIN RSL QUEENSLAND
Corporal Cameron Baird, a 2nd Commando Regiment soldier, was mortally wounded while leading his platoon into a known Taliban stronghold in Uruzgan Province Afghanistan, 22 June 2013.
His actions in made him the 100th recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia. The award was given posthumously in February 2014.
The monumental sculpture is located at Currumbin RSL, Queensland.
THE RAR FOUNDATION HASSETT AWARD
Naked Army is pleased to support the RAR Foundation’s Hassett Award which is awarded annually by the Royal Australian Regiment Foundation to the most outstanding junior leader from the Royal Australian Infantry.
Named for General Sir Francis Hassett the trophy was based on Naked Army’s Bardia infantryman bronze figurine. General Hassett was wounded at Bardia in 1941, and led 3RAR in the iconic Battle of Maryang San in Korea in 1951. General Hassett’s 59-year career also included posts to New Guinea and Bougainville during WW2, command of troops Malaya, and in 1975 he became Chief of the Defence Force Staff.
The RAR Foundation’s 2021 Hassett Award is presented by Governor General David Hurley to CPL Matthew Reid of The 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. (PHOTO: RAR FOUNDATION)
THE OPERATOR Fullsize Memorial sculpture at Hindmarsh Barracks NEW SOUTH WALES (PHOTO CHRISTIAN TRINDER)