For a small rural community it must have been a big loss when 9 of the 47 young men who left from action in World War 1 did not return - station hands, slaughtermen, farmer, teamsters gone. The owner of Mount Joseph took it upon himself to construct a suitable private memorial to these young men. He designed a bridge to cross the creek below his homestead. The piers were built by Mr FW Webb and the bridge constructed by local station hands and a number of returned servicemen. Once completed in 1921, the single lane bridge was handed over to the Woocoo Shire Council with suitable ceremony and carried Woolooga Road traffic for over fifty years until it was replaced with a two lane traffic bridge in1972. It fell in to disrepair but was restored in 2008. This year a photographic display was added in the rest area giving the war details of the nine fallen whose names were listed on one of the northern piers. The pier opposite listed the names of those returned while the two southern piers gave the dates of when war was declared and finally ended.
So interesting and informative. I'm so glad someone did this history for the town. My sister undertook a similar endeavor for her area, and it changed her life! There was one small farming town in New Mexico that simply became a ghost town after WWII because every one of its young men died in the Bataan Death March. @mbemis
