Barrier Daily Truth, Broken Hill's Daily Newspaper, reports in April 2012, when commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of this luxury liner, "at the time of the tragedy the city had hundreds of brass band players and a very strong musical tradition, so the story of the band playing as the ship went down touched many hearts. They wanted to erect a memorial in their memory".
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| Location: Sturt Park, Broken Hill, N.S.W. |
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26 comments:
How interesting!! Thanks for the information..
What a beautiful memorial to some courageous, and generous, men.
A great post! Lovely to see the picture!
A fine memorial to those brave men. Thanks for showing it to us. Have a good weekend.
Great history information! There are ties to the tragedy of the Titanic everywhere. A lovely memorial.
Very nice, pretty memorial.
Have a great Friday!
Lea
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Beautiful memorial and a lovely fence & garden.
A very nice memorial to those brave men!
wow, what a beautiful place to visit. (:
A beautiful memorial Carole.
'Twas a sad night, indeed, but there were--as with the bandsmen--outstanding examples of courage and calm acceptance of the inevitable.
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Very nice, pretty memorial. I am greeting
What a beautiful memorial to honor those brave men...Very nice photo!
That memorial looks majestic against the blue sky!
very interesting...nice that there is a memorial in their memory!
Nice shots of a great memorial. I can't imagine what they went through.
Thank you for sharing such interesting history information. A beautiful memorial.
What a beautiful memorial!
It's so sad. What a lovely memorial, and lovely fence around it.
But but but .. why? What is the connection? Broken Hill is about as far away from the North Atlantic as one can get! I could moan about hard-earned taxpayer dollars ... but it is not my style.
Neat! Combines history, fences, music, landscape . . . LOTS going on.
Love the fencing!
Hugs,
Jan
Julie, I have added a further paragraph (with link) to this post now. It explains that the memorial was simply a heart-felt request by the many bandsmen of the city etc.
Of all the stories from this tragedy, had not heard this one. Always heroes who step forward in a crisis--sometimes from the most unexpected.
*grin*
I wonder if that would happen nowadays.
The fence and memorial are just lovely.
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