Description:
Memorial in front of the Returned Services League Club building at 11 Torquay Road, Hervey Bay.
A low, pyramid shape concrete structure with a flat top.
History:
Hervey Bay was named by Captain Cook after Augustus John Hervey (1724-1799), later the 3rd Earl of Bristol, a Naval Officer, who became a Lord of the Admiralty in the year of HMB Endeavour’s return.
Erected by the Returned Services League of Australia.
Inscriptions:
Top plaque, inscription (too worn to decipher)
Bottom plaque:
ERECTED BY THE
R.S.L.A.
TO COMMEMORATE
THE DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF
HERVEY BAY ON
21st MAP 1770 BY
CAPT’ JAMES COOK R.N.
GPS Coordinates: -25.281869, 152.840925
References:
Endeavour Lines, page 13, no. 44 (Apr 2005)
Website: http://monumentaustralia.org.au/display/107081-discovery-and-naming-of-hervey-bay