Showing 2 items matching "Shrine of Remembrance"
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Lucinda HorrocksThe Missing
... Photograph: Shrine of Remembrance...The Shrine of Remembrance was built by the Victorian community as a place to remember those that lost their lives in the First World War. ...When WW1 brought Australians face to face with mass death, a Red Cross Information Bureau and post-war graves workers laboured to help families grieve for the missing.
The unprecedented death toll of the First World War generated a burden of grief. Particularly disturbing was the vast number of dead who were “missing” - their bodies never found.
This film and series of photo essays explores two unsung humanitarian responses to the crisis of the missing of World War 1 – the Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau and the post-war work of the Australian Graves Detachment and Graves Services. It tells of a remarkable group of men and women, ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, who laboured to provide comfort and connection to grieving families in distant Australia.
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History Teachers' Association of Victoria / Royal Historical Society of VictoriaMacRobertson's Confectionery Factory
... the Shrine of Remembrance, building the MacRobertson Bridge over the Yarra River and the construction of a new building for the National Herbarium. One of MacRobertson’s most unusual bequests was of 10,000 pounds to Mawson’s 1929 Antarctica Expedition. His ...MacRobertson Steam Confectionery Works was a confectionery company founded in 1880 by Macpherson Robertson and operated by his family in Fitzroy, Melbourne until 1967 when it was sold to Cadbury.
This story accompanies the 'Nail Can to Knighthood: the life of Sir Macpherson Robertson KBE' exhibition which took place at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 2015.
