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A former giant Digger-style soldier that stood outside Hassett's Military Museum on Bridge Street in Uralla and had been removed by July 2022.
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The Big Soldier
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Site-level location · 30.6490° S, 151.4920° E
FIELD GUIDE
The story
The Big Soldier stood outside Hassett's Military Museum on Bridge Street, a giant Digger keeping watch over the New England Highway through Uralla.
A soldier is not an ordinary Big Thing subject. Most oversized objects are cheerful and commercial; this one sat at the boundary between roadside attraction and memorial, advertising a private military museum while depicting a figure that, at any other scale and in any other posture, would be a war memorial. That ambiguity is common to the handful of giant Diggers around the country, and it makes them awkward objects to write about – the slouch hat carries weight regardless of what the sculpture was built for.
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Historical listing only. Uralla Shire Council was already discussing removal of the deteriorating Big Soldier in 2019, and a July 2022 visitor report confirms it was no longer present. The former museum site is not promoted as a Big Thing destination.
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