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About the Memorial. The Anzac Memorial is administered by a Board of Trustees appointed under the Anzac Memorial (Building) Act 1923. The Trustees are responsible for the management, maintenance and preservation of the Anzac Memorial as New South Wales’ principal war memorial. The Trustees' vision is "To promote, maintain and enhance the ...
ANZAC MEMORIAL. Hyde Park South Sydney NSW 2000 Australia. Locked Bag A4010 Sydney South NSW 1235. Trustees of the Anzac Memorial Building ABN: 26 397 403 816. Telephone: 02 8262 2900 Email: manager@anzacmemorial.nsw.gov.au. Learning programs: 02 8262 2904 (for school enquiries only) or education@anzacmemorial.nsw.gov.au. Follow us on Facebook ...
The Anzac Memorial, in Sydney's Hyde Park, is New South Wales' principal memorial to all Australians who have served in the Defence Force. The Memorial Building in both its original and its extended form is a work of art and a remarkable piece of architecture. It is a physical expression of the spirit and legend of the Anzacs and a place of ...
Completed in 1934, the monument was designed by Charles Bruce Dellit, with figural reliefs and sculpture by Rayner Hoff. Its striking architectural form is capped with a ziggurat-inspired stepped roof, and adorned with 20 sculptures that are sentinels of the building. The Centenary Project was completed in 2018 to mark the 100th anniversary of ...
Explore the Memorial. The Anzac Memorial is both a work of art and a remarkable piece of architecture. The artist was George Rayner Hoff, an English sculptor who had migrated to Sydney in the 1920s. Rayner Hoff had served in the Royal Engineers as a map maker in France during the Great War and in Germany with the army of occupation.
Jun 5, 2021 · The striking art-deco war memorial to the ANZACs (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps) was built in Sydney's Hyde Park between 1932 and 1934. It is heritage listed. The memorial is the focus of commemoration ceremonies on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. The building design was part of a competition commissioned in 1929 with a brief that the ...
Anzac Memorial Hyde Park, Sydney 1940 [RAHS Photograph Collection] On 24 November 1934, sixteen years after the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the Anzac Memorial in Sydney’s Hyde Park first opened its doors. An estimated one-hundred-thousand spectators attended the ceremony. Eighty-five years later it remains an iconic national ...
