SYDNEY’S CENOTAPH

Evening Star, Issue 19892, 14 June 1928, Page 12

SYDNEY’S CENOTAPH

One of Sydney's leading military men, in a speech the other day, had the courage to express the sentiments of not a fow in the community by suggesting that the Cenotaph should bo removed from the whirl of traffic in Martin place, in the heart of 'the city, to a quieter spot where it would be likely to command more respect. The complaint has been made that citizens, while very ready to remove their bats in lifts, fail to bare their heads when passing this monument to the heroic dead, as they do when passing the Cenotaph in London. As a matter'of fact, this is not out of a lack of reverence or respect for the dead. The Cenotaph, amid the confluence of all the human tides that sweep and surge past it in a feverish!,ybusy city, is hr, the wrong place The same mistake is not to be perpetuated when the great national shrine, in the form of a soldiers' memorial, is erected within Ihc next few years. It will grace Hyde Park or one of the other big open spaces. Architecturally, the shrine promises to bo one of the most imposing pieces of commemorative art in Australia. The competition for the best design Will be opened shortly to Australian and New Zealand architects. In broad outline, the shrine will bo along the lines of the historic Scottish national shrine in Edinburgh.