AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL at Villers-Bretonneux which is again in the theatre of war. The central tower of the memorial is 103 feet high, and within it a staircase leads to an outside platform on the front at a level of 64 feet From this platform stairways lead on the right and left to an observation room, which occupies the whole of the upper part of the tower. The floor of this room is seventy-five feet from the ground, and four large windows afford views in all directions of the surrounding country and battle fields. Flanking the central tower on either side are walls in ashlar formation, making three sides of a countyard and bearing the names of 11,000 Australian soldiers who have no known grave. An aeriel view of the memorial, showing the cementery in the foreground.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL at Villers-Bretonneux which is again in the theatre of war. The central tower of the memorial is 103 feet high, and within it a staircase leads to an outside platform on the front at a level of 64 feet From this platform stairways lead on the right and left to an observation room, which occupies the whole of the upper part of the tower. The floor of this room is seventy-five feet from the ground, and four large windows afford views in all directions of the surrounding country and battle fields. Flanking the central tower on either side are walls in ashlar formation, making three sides of a countyard and bearing the names of 11,000 Australian soldiers who have no known grave. An aeriel view of the memorial, showing the cementery in the foreground.