“REVERENCE"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 April 1928, Page 8

“REVERENCE"

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL M I-MO RIAL HISTORIAN’S PLANS NAMES OF 80,000 DEAD

SYDNEY, 31st .March It is hoped to have the huge National War Memorial, now building on the slopes of Mount Ainslie, Canberra, completed in three years, according to a statement, made this week by Captain Beau, Australian war historian, and be made it quite clear in evidence before a I’arliainentiirv Works Committee, that

war. wills ali its horrors and suhorings. will not he glorified therein. Captain Bean said that there was onl\

one national opinion, and that to the, L ll eel that the building should lie a place of reverence. He was of the opinion that everv effort, should he made to avoid e\en a, suggestion of the glorification ot

war. . . Kui' instance, he said that in the mllection of photographs during the juorrjcss of the war there was some dim culty at first, because some British plioiograpbers were apt to make tln* pa

ture> more realistic than ttiu scane* actually ptesented If. proved quite easy to fake a 'Tmli binst bv placing a stick, ot gelignite under a, rotntr-j- of a der.tinyed building, but that was not, what was wanted. However. Australia s own photographers had collected many valuable pictorial records. About 200 paintings and sketches b> Dvson, dealing with the war period, "ill he in the collection. The difficulty ot preserving some of the war relics in their totiretv' was so great that the ai4vii< ~i scientists at work on the Tutankli amen relics was sought. Names of the HO.OOO (lend _ will be placed under the headings ot (he 4.>00 towns and districts from which tlm <m listmcnts were made. 1 hey "’til " ai ranged in alphabet ical order, generals alongside privates. Tlm committee mill rolling the erect toil of the building discarded tlm idea •» having the names arranged under units and in order of death because of the difficulty friends and oven relatives would have in picking them out. troin the host, of so.ooo. Tlio memorial will be one of the mos imposing buildings in the capital-