Australian War Memorial London

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The Australian War Memorial in London is dedicated to the 102,000 Australian dead of WWI and WWII. It is located on the southernmost corner of Hyde Park Corner, near to the Wellington Arch, the Machine Gun Corps Memorial, the Royal Artillery Memorial and the New Zealand War Memorial. The granite stones are inscribed with the names of 23,844 towns in which the Australian service men and women were born, in Australia, the UK and elsewhere. Parts of some town names are picked out in bolder type, creating the names of 47 battles in which Australia was involved in a larger font.

Four blocks towards the centre of the memorial bear the crest of Australia and the insignia of the three branches of the Australian armed services (Royal Australian Navy, Army and Royal Australian Airforce), and another block bears the dedicatory inscription: "Whatever burden you are to carry we also will shoulder that burden (Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, 1941).

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 400

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-70mm F2.8 GM II
• 28.0 mm
• ƒ/3.5
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 400