Berrima Residents Association has resumed custodianship of the Berrima section of the Sydney to Canberra Remembrance Driveway.

The MOU was signed by the Berrima Residents Association President Dr Eric Savage and Air Commodore Ian Scott AM on behalf of the NSW Remembrance Driveway Council.

The Sydney to Canberra Remembrance Driveway was established by Queen Elizabeth II in 1954.

Dr Savage said that the "MOU ensures that the 34 acre site at Berrima remains as a living memorial and is accessible to the community as space of reflection and remembrance of the sacrifice of Australian men and women who served in World War II."

"Our community thanks the Remembrance Driveway Council for its commitment over the past 50 years to maintaining the plantation and memorial plaques at Berrima."

This section of the former Remembrance Driveway along the Old Hume Highway at Berrima was planted under the direction of Sir Cecil Hoskins.

More than a hundred trees were planted between 1956 and 1965.

It will be renamed the Berrima Remembrance Grove.

Within the Grove there are nine memorials sponsored by the leading Australian industrial, banking and commercial companies at the time.

"We invite these companies, their successor companies and the current land-owners and Wingecarribee Council to partner with us in restoring and improving this living memorial." Dr Savage said.

"The Association recognizes the important history of the establishment of the Berrima section of the Driveway from Sydney to Canberra and the significant cultural, social, landscape and horticultural heritage embodied in the Remembrance Driveway plantings and plaques at Berrima."

The Residents Association and the Remembrance Driveway Council have agreed that Berrima Remembrance Grove will be developed in coming decades as a place of quiet reflection on the sacrifice of our parent's generation.

"As children of that generation we have a particular responsibility to do whatever we can as a community to preserve the Berrima section for future generations," Dr Savage said.

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