BRONZE SENTRIES AT SYDNEY’S CENOTAPH
IMPRESSIVE UNVEILING. LIFE SIZE FIGURES OF SOLDIER AND SAILOR. Australian Press Association. Received Thursday, 8.15 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 21.
An impressive ceremony was witnessed by 40,000 people, including returned soldiers, sailors and relatives, at the cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney at 12.30 o’clock to-day, the occasion being the unveiling of bronze life-size figures of an soldier and sailor, standing at either end of the cenotaph. The figures are the work of Sir Bertram MacKennal. The unveiling was performed by the Premier, who made an eloquent speech, and was followed by Sir John Monash, who expressed the hope that Australia would always remember the fact that the A.I.F. was the only purely volunteer Force which entered the Great War. The great crowd sang appropriate hymns, the buglers sounded the Last Post and the trumpeters the Reveile, after which the Governor, Sir Dudley De Chair, placed a laurel wreath on the cenotaph.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6843, 22 February 1929, Page 7
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