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Emden gun in Hyde Park 2011

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Emden gun in Hyde Park 2011

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HMAS Sydney

Four Royal Australian Navy ships have been named HMAS Sydney over the last 100 years. Deployed all over the world, they have all maintained a special connection with the port of Sydney.

War Memorials for World War I

The shocking losses of Australian servicemen and women in the Great War prompted communities across Australia to find ways to memorialise those who died, and honour those who served. As no centralised authority drove or coordinated this task, the form of each memorial reflects the community that raised the funds to build it. Balmain was the first suburb in Australia to erect a war memorial, but in time, the towns, suburbs, workplaces and institutions of Sydney found a way to fulfil the covenant 'we will remember them.'

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Hyde Park

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Park providing green space in Sydney's busy centre.

Emden Gun

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Four inch gun from the German ship Emden which was destroyed by the HMAS Sydney off the Cocos Islands in 1914. A gift from the Commonwealth to the City of Sydney, it was installed in 1917.