ANZAC MEMORIAL.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 9

ANZAC MEMORIAL.

SCULPTURE IN SYDNEY.

An interesting brochure, containing a description of the Anzac memorial building in Sydney, written by Mr Lionel G. Wigmore, who was some years ago on the literary staff of The Press, has come to hand. It states that the arts of a sculptor and architect, by which have been evolved the memorial, have as their aim the creation of form and design appropriate to an event unprecedented in the world's history and to a young and virile nation. < An earnest endeavour has been mado to execute a memorial worthy of the State and the nation, in keeping with the magnitude of the event and the sacredness of the memory of those whose ccurage, endurance, and sacrifice it is intended to symbolise. It is intended also to inspire in those who visit it a spirit of meditation and determination that the sacrifices of Australia's men and women in tho war shall not have been in vain; that despite the disillusionment of the post-war period the world shall be nobler for their sake. General Design. Sculpture was selected by the architect as the medium, by which the task could best be completed,'of conveying to present and future generations f the tragedy of modern warfare. The sculptor has designed and modelled his works so that they may arise naturally from the architecture and harmonise with the general design. The sculptor has sought to set forth the great burden of sacrifice, pain, horror, and annihilation laid on tho youthful manhood of the nation, to typify also the spirit of those thousands of women not directly engaged in the war who lost sons they had borne and reared, husbands, friends, and lovers. Hall of Meniory. The various typical units of the arms of the Forces are represented by reliefs in the Hall of Memory, the memorial being 100 ft high, 150 ft long, and 95ft broad. It is faced in tooled light-red gianite with an interior of white marble. The architect was Mr C. Bruce Dellit, and the design was chosen from among 316 submitted by Australian architects throughout the world, by the assessors, Professor Leslie Wilkinson, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney; and Professor A. S. Hook, and the Public Trustee, Mr E. J. Payne. The materials used in the construction are Australian—the white marble for the interior from quarries near Bathhurst, and the granite for the exterior from Tarana.