“The Cenotaph on the Hill”
Auckland’s Tribute to Anzacs
Tomorrow —Anzac Bay—at the Cenotaph on the hill. In the quiet of an autumn afternoon beside Auckland’s greatest, most significant memorial, a thousand voices will swell the deep notes of the “Old Hundredth,” and the clear call of a bugle will sound a soldier’s requiem. For the first time citizens will pay their tribute to gallant sons and brothers in a place dedicated and set apart; a place of bitter sweet memories that mock at time, perpetuating a day, fifteen years ago, when Anzacs icon a noble place in their .Empire’s Valhalla. Below the white columns of the Memorial building sheltering its flag-draped shrine, men of the Services uri%l assemble, flanking the Cenotaph in steady lines. Past, present, (told future generations oj soldiers and sailors, from the veterans of South Africa to the youngest territorial cadets, will join in honouring the fallen. And while prayers are said and tvreaths are placed on the Empty Tomb, symbolic of all who did not return, the spirit of the Australian md Neio Zealand Army Corps will live ggain. i
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 1
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185“The Cenotaph on the Hill” Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 955, 24 April 1930, Page 1
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