Saturday 25 April 2015

Anzac Bridge, Anzac Memorial, Anzac Day

Two Anzac Memorials featuring bronze sculptures of Australian and New Zealand soldiers on plinths, are located at the western approach of the Anzac Bridge at Rozelle. The sculpture of an Australian ANZAC soldier (colloquially known as a digger) facing west was unveiled on ANZAC Day in 2000. This sculpture of a New Zealand ANZAC soldier facing east was added in 2008. Both statues were created by Alan Somerville, with sand collected from Ari Burnu beach in Gallipolli, Turkey placed underneath. Today is ANZAC Day, which marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War in 1915, with the centenary commemorated this year.

15 comments:

  1. A very beautiful tribute! Thank you Jim for sharing with all of us today and have a good weekend!

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  2. A dawn parade will take place here in London tomorrow morning.

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  3. Well done on ANZAC day, a nice story about the sand.

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  4. A wonderful life-like bronze sculpture .... perfect for our ANZAC day

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  5. Just awesome! we were at an anzac ceremony this morning too.

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  6. Beautiful memorial and a pretty sky. Great post for your Anzac Day!

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  7. Gorgeous! My contribution to ANZAC.
    http://junkboattravels.blogspot.ca/2015/04/anzac.html

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  8. I wish I'd seen these when I was there Jim, excellent sculpture.

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  9. Thanks For Sharing the wonderful article. This post is very interesting and very important to me, keep producing scintillating works for our readers..................

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