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Womens Memorial Gardens and Cross of Sacrifice [PRG 287/1/4/51] • Photograph

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Summary

The Womens War Memorial Cross of Sacrifice located at King William Road and Pennington Terrace, Pennington Gardens, North Adelaide. The Adelaide Hills can be seen in the distance.

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Physical description

Photograph; 8 cm x 13.5 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1937

Collection

Part of Robjohns Collection

Catalogue record

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Historical information

The Cross of Sacrifice Memorial originally commemorated South Australian men who died in the Great War and was paid for by the women of South Australia. A separate Stone of Remembrance was unveiled 25 April 1923. The memorial was an idea from Miss Ethel Wyatt. In 1919 the Womens War Memorial Committee was formed from the "League of Loyal Women" and began accepting donations from the women of South Australia. The Womens War Memorial includes both a Cross of Sacrifice and a Stone of Remembrance positioned at opposite ends of the Memory Garden. Placed in the base of the Cross of Sacrifice is an urn containing names of British, French and Allied troops who served during World War One. Women also placed small violet bags into the base of the cross, which contained names of loved ones who died in the war. There are also coins and documents from that time in the base of the Stone of Remembrance.

Digitisation information

Date

29/09/2008

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,384 x 3,793 pixels (9.0 MP)

Size

27.15 MB

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