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ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, 15 September 1930

ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, 15 September 1930

By

Charles Bruce Dellit

From the collection of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a128948 / XV1/Mon War /1]

(Mitchell Library)

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Dellit, Charles Bruce

State Library of New South Wales

Anzac War Memorial Hyde Park

Built in Hyde Park in the 1930s, the Anzac War Memorial commemorates the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli in World War I. Though funds were gathered from 1916, construction was delayed by the building of the underground city railway through the park.

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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Park providing green space in Sydney's busy centre.

Anzac War Memorial Hyde Park

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The main war memorial in Sydney and one of the city's finest Art Deco buildings. It embodies the collective grief of the people of NSW at the loss of Australian servicemen and women since World War I. It is associated with the landing of Australian troops at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, since fundraising for the memorial was established on the first anniversary of the landing.