Cross of Sacrifice • Find • State Library of South Australia

Anzac Day

Krischock, Harry, 1936, Photograph, B 9370

Service of Remembrance at the Cross of Sacrifice, Pennington Gardens. Eight buglers sound the Last Post at the end of the service.

Pennington Gardens, North Adelaide

1930, Photograph, B 5628/2

Cross of Sacrifice on Anzac Day at Pennington Gardens. The four people in front of the monument, just to the right of the banner are (from left): Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven (Governor), Lady Hore-Ruthven, Colonel W. Dollman and Mrs Dollman. [See 'The News', Friday 25 April 1930, page 1.]

Autumn Bloom

c. 1950, Photograph, B 61020/61

No. 1420. Autumn Bloom. Shows the Cross of Sacrifice and St Peter's Cathedral in the background.

Unveiling the Cross of Sacrifice, Adelaide

1922, Photograph, PRG 280/1/27/59

Sir Archibald Weigall, Governor of South Australia, reading an oration during the service for the unveiling of the Cross of Sacrifice in Pennington Gardens, Adelaide; a large crowd of mourners, many carrying flowers to lay at the memorial wait in silence.

Eternal Flame of Remembrance

Scott, Jenny, 2012, Photograph, B 72760

The Eternal Flame of Remembrance situated in the Cross of Sacrifice Memorial Gardens commemorates and honours all who served and those who made the supreme sacrifice. It was commissioned by the Adelaide City Council and dedicated on 11 November 2008.

Women's War Memorial, Adelaide

Scott, Jenny, 2013, Photograph, B 72980

Women's War Memorial Seat of Remembrance, Adelaide, forming a crescent shaped seat behind the Stone of Remembrance. 9 February 2013.

Women's War Memorial, Adelaide

Scott, Jenny, 2013, Photograph, B 72979

Women's War Memorial Stone of Remembrance, Adelaide.

Collection of lantern slides

Gordon, Raymond Hier, c. 1938, Photograph, PRG 1605/6/1-194

Collection of lantern slides, created by Raymond Gordon. Gordon travelled widely in South Australia and to the Northern Territory. Views include Mount Gambier, Barmera, Adelaide and the Ungarra district, Eyre Peninsula. Prints and negatives of some slides are also held in other series (Series 1, 3, and 4) and have been digitised in those. Listed below is a selection of the slides. Many of the slides have been digitised in series 3 and are not repeated in this list. Slides taken in the Middle East also have not been listed or digitised.

World War 1 era fundraising button badges

Returned Services League of Australia. South Australian Branch, c. 1917, Realia, SRG 435/18/1-24

22 World War 1 era badges, and two World War 2 era badges, (also known as campaign buttons or 'tinnies') donated by a member to the South Australian branch of the RSL. Most badges were designed and created to be purchased as a fundraising interest, in order to raise money for various factions of the Red Cross. Included are badges created for occasions such as Australia Day, Wattle Day and Violet Day, as well as badges designed for charity groups including the Red Cross, the Cheer-Up Society and the R.S.A. (Returned Soldiers' Association, which later became the R.S.L.). See below for details.

Photographs of Adelaide and parklands

c. 1928, Photograph, B 78654/1-6

Six photographs taken in the late 1920s or early 1930s, depicting scenes of streets and parklands around Adelaide. The photos originally belonged to a larger set, indicated by a number and caption superimposed on each print.

Photograph albums containing views of the Anglican New Guinea Mission in Papua

1929, Photograph, B 56981

ALBUM: Photograph albums which belonged to the South Australian missionary, Lilla Lashmar, showing part of the life of the Anglican New Guinea Mission in Papua, 1929-1936. Album B 56981/1 (1929-1933), Album B 56981/2 (1933-1936). Photographs in Album 1 include mission buildings at Dogura and people attending mission conferences, indigenous people, including children, and Papua scenery. Lilla Lashmar and other mission staff were executed by the Japanese on Buna Beach in 1942.

Scenes of South Australia

c. 1880, Photograph, B 71545/1-113

Photographs in black & white and some sepia, of South Australian scenes and landscapes, ca.1890-1930. See CONTENTS for more information and details.

World War Two photographs of Noel Stanley Errington

c. 1941, Photograph, SRG 435/2/555-625

Photographs and postcards of Lance Corporal Noel Stanley Errington's active service in the Middle East with 2/43 Battalion, 9 Division AIF, including Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, during the Second World War, comprising: Australian troops and camps, machine guns, artillery and tanks, and local people, landscapes and cities. Selected images have been digitised. See below for details.

Photographs of the Floral Festival, Empire Pageant and Pageant of Progress

1936, Photograph, B 71615/1-25

Photographs of the Floral Festival held in Adelaide on September 18th, 1936; the Empire Pageant held on November 27th-28th, 1936; and the Pageant of Progress. See 'contents' for details of individual images.

Views of Victor Harbor

Immig, John, 2006, Photograph, B 71393/1-50

A collection of images of Victor Harbor.

Photographs relating to St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide and its bishops

Anglican Church of Australia. Diocese of Adelaide, 1889, Photograph, SRG 94/A1/26/1-47

Photographs comprising exterior and interior view of the Cathedral building (both under construction and completed) and portraits of bishops and clergymen. See 'contents' for details of items.

Series 077: ANZAC Day Parade, 1936

Smith, D. Darian, 1936, Photograph, BRG 397/2/77

Aerial photographs of the 1936 Anzac Day Parade from King William Road towards the Cross of Sacrifice in lower North Adelaide. Views include City Bridge, the River Torrens, Adelaide Oval, Jolley's Boathouse, St Peter's Cathedral, Pennington Terrace and the Torrens Parade Ground.

World War 1 era campaign button badges

Greenlees, Alan, 1914, Mixed material, D 8775/1-73(Misc)

73 World War 1 era badges (also known as campaign buttons or 'tinnies') collected by Alan David and Winifred Smith Greenlees, when they were living in Broken Hill. Most badges were designed and created to be purchased as a fundraising interest, in order to raise money for various factions of the Red Cross, and most were manufactured by Alfred E.S. Stokes in Australia 'Manufacturer of Photographic reproduction, coloured Patriotic, Carnival, Campaign Buttons, etc. 228 Pitt Street, Sydney'. Several of this group of items were designed for other charity groups such as the Returned Services League (RSL), the Florence Nightingale Fund, the Army Nurses Day, the Civilian TB & Cancer Fund, the Navy Day, the Wattle League, the Lord Mayor's Japanese Relief Fund and other ventures.