Remembering Eureka 170 years on

THE one-hundred-and-seventieth anniversary of the Eureka Stockade was marked on Tuesday morning, 3 December.

Eureka descendants, community leaders and local residents gathered at the Eureka Stockade Memorial for a wreath-laying ceremony to remember the diggers and soldiers who died on the site defending their rights or doing their duty in 1854.

Eureka Centre manager Anthony Camm.

The bagpipe procession to the Eureka graves at the Old Ballarat Cemetery.

City of Ballarat mayor Cr Tracey Hargreaves.

Wadawurrung elder Dr Deanne Gilson welcomed memorial attendees to Country.

Member for Western Victoria Joe McCracken and Member for Wendouree Juliana Addison.

Eureka descendant Phillip Moore.

A ceremony commemorating the miners who gave their lives and the soldiers who fell in the line of duty during the battle followed at the Old Ballarat Cemetery. There was a bagpipe procession to the graves, the names of those killed were read, and flags were raised at each site.

Photos: EDWINA WILLIAMS