Bogan Gate District’s Contribution to Armed Conflict Mural

Charlie Nivison (mural, 2022)

Servicemen and women from Bogan Gate served in all of Australia’s conflicts from the Boer War through to the more recent conflicts in the Middle East and Afghanistan and was where Victoria Cross recipient Rawdon Middleton enlisted in 1940.

The mural on the southern wall of the tennis clubhouse on Olive Grove Lane, Bogan Gate, overlooking Henry Parkes Way was delivered by designer and mural artist Charlie Nivison who has delivered murals for organisations across Australia including major supermarket retailer, ALDI.

The mural depicts Rawdon Middleton VC and his Stirling bomber, a light horseman on the charge and a wartime nurse along with other Anzac symbols.

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Image Credits: Feature image and image 3 Kylie Shead, Arts OutWest, images 1 and 2 Arts OutWest.

Listing updated April 2024.