C E W Bean
Old photo of the Pool of Reflection,
from NCDC publication, 1970s
"Here Is Their Spirit"
A History of the Australian War Memorial
1917-1990
by Michael McKernan, 1991
published for the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Memorial.
bought at the Memorial on 11-11-91
See the early pine trees here.. static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_SCREEN/P...
Chatting with our new Senior neighbour, she mentioned her father moved from Melbourne and took up the position of clerk in the Photographic Records Section after the War He retired in 1966.
I loaned her my copy of the book, where she found a photo of him on p188
They also lived in their first home for years, when Canberra's population was in the 1000s..
He didn't take any photos!!
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from the roof of "The Hall of Memory'
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and the Hall of Memory...
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at The Pool of Reflection.
Portrait of Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal)
see www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/ataturk/?query=ataturk
and John Edward Barclay, on the right.
www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1635523/
A book of Poetry commemorating Gallipoli and all the conditions of using the word Anzac, not sure why it is never in capitals, as like AIF it stands for something..
He ran foul of the Minister and various Acts and laws preventing use of the word ANZAC.
So he used Gallipoli Poetry Project, and even renamed that! www.ozzywriters.com/index.php/ozw-calendar/competitions-a... named Prize.. see the prize winners poems here...
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"I have renamed my Project the ‘100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project’ and its prize is now called the ‘100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Prize’. "
He spends sometime here documenting his travels and reasons for the project, with details of the legal problems of using the name ANZAC, or Anzac!
There are copies of some of the winners of the prize, and a link to where the book can be purchased.
"When Anzac Day comes around" presents
answers to two questions that Graeme
Lindsay posed to Australian and New Zealand
poets as part of his 100 Years from
Gallipoli Poetry Project:
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