A REST area next to Holbrook’s Submarine Park has been renamed to honour the nine Australians awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Gallipoli.
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The site officially became the Gallipoli Victoria Cross Rest Area at a ceremony yesterday marking 100 years of Australian submarines.
Information panels commemorate Albert Jacka, Hugo Throssell, Alfred Shout, Frederick Tubb, Alexander Burton, William Dunstan John Hamilton, Leonard Keysor and William Symons.
A 10th man honoured is Commander Norman Holbrook, the world’s first submariner to win the Victoria Cross and after whom the town was renamed in 1915.
Assistant Minister for Education and Farrer MP Sussan Ley, representing Regional Development Minister Warren Truss, said Norman Holbrook’s exploits in the Dardenelles in 1914 made him a great hero.
