Australian war memorial

The Australian War Memorial is a war memorial to the 102,000 Australian dead of the First and Second World Wars at Hyde Park Corner in London, at the southernmost corner of the traffic island around the Wellington Arch, at the junction of Grosvenor Place and Wellington Place.

The memorial is a semicircular curved wall of grey-green West Australian granite, with the names of 47 battles in which Australia was involved and the names of 23,844 towns in which the soldiers were born carved into it, with water running down over the names. The memorial was designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects and the artist Janet Laurence.

The memorial was unveiled on 11 November (Armistice Day) 2003 by Queen Elizabeth II in her role as Queen of Australia, Tony Blair as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia.

Photo 156, May 2011

Australian war memorial detail

Photo 165, May 2011

Australian war memorial detail

Photo 168, May 2011