SYDNEY’S WAR MEMORIAL
TWO BRONZE FIGURES 40,000 SEE UNVEILING SYDNEY. Thursday. Two bronze life-sized figures representing an Australian soldier and sailor which have been erected at either end of the Cenotaph in Martin Place, Sydney, were unveiled to-day at an impressive ceremony. There were present 40,000 people, including returned soldiers and sailors and their relatives. •The figures are the work of Sir Bertram Mackennal. The unveiling ceremony was performed by the Premier, Mr. T. R. Bavin, who made an eloquent speech. Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash expressed the hope that Australia would always remember the fact that its infantry force was the only purely volunteer force which entered the Great War.
The spectators sang appropriate hymns, buglers sounded the “LastPost” and trumpeters the “Reveille,” after which the Governor of New South Wales. Sir Dudley de Chair, placed a laurel wreath on the Cenotaph.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 9
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142SYDNEY’S WAR MEMORIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 9
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