A Korean War Memorial, part of an estimated $70,000 refurbishment and extension of war memorials in Glen Innes, is to be unveiled and dedicated on July 30, marking the 55th anniversary of the war’s ceasefire.

The memorial will be unveiled by Korea War Veterans Association president Michael Kohlhoff, from Sydney, and Glen Innes veteran Earle Wetherspoon who served in Korea with 3 Royal Australian Regiment.

Salvation Army Captain Tom Stewart, from Sydney, and local clergy will perform the dedication. Captain Stewart served with Glen Innes RSL sub-branch president Allen Evans in Korea where both were 3 Battalion machine-gunners. Korea War Veterans Association members from a wide area, including Sydney, Nowra, Grafton and Goondiwindi, will attend the ceremony.

Mr Evans, who also served in Malaya and Vietnam, said the Korea memorial comprised three granite boulders symbolising the mountainous country in which the war was fought, and would include South Korea’s national hibiscus flower, the Rose of Sharon.

He said the Australian flag would be flown at half-mast during the ceremony with United Nations and South Korean flags draped on the memorial. There would be an honour roll of Glen Innes and district veterans with the emblems of the three services.

Improvements to other war memorials include the addition of a perpetual flame of remembrance on the gates of Anzac Park and synchronisation of the gate’s lights with the street lights.

A three-metre path with crushed granite will lead to the memorials. The path will be lined with 36 junipers, to grow to 1.8 metres and each spaced the equivalent length of soldiers in line, with plinths commemorating the wars from the Boer War to the present.

A metal stand and flame of remembrance, to be lit on Anzac Day and other observances, has been added at the World War 1 memorial. Flanders poppies will be planted at the entrance to Anzac Park.