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"To Our Beloved Dead" is a poem by the Australian poet Professor Leslie Holdsworth Allen.
Inspiration
A sandstone war memorial was designed by architect William Hardy Wilson for Newington College and was dedicated on 11 May 1922 by the Governor-General of Australia, Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster. Allen wrote the poem in memory of the occasion. The memorial comprises a semi-circular wall and seat, with pillars surmounted by white stone urns at either end and a column with a sundial in the centre.
The inscriptions on the wall and sundial read:
References
To Our Beloved Dead Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA