The University’s War Memorial Committee records have been added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register! The records will be added to the Register early next year.
The Committee was established in 1918 to decide how those members of the University community who served in the Great War should be remembered. However, it was not until 1923 that a special committee was appointed by Senate and calls for suggestions from all sections of the University as to what form the permanent war memorial should take. It was the Evening Students Association that proposed a carillon in the University clock tower for the war memorial. The Committee oversaw the public fundraising and erection of the new clock tower, the carillon bells and the production of the WWI Book of Remembrance. The biographical files used to compile the WWI Book of Remembrance can also be searched on the Beyond 1914 database.
The photographs and plans of the clock tower and the bells that are not part of the War Memorial Committee records can be found on Archives-Search.
The UNESCO Australian Memory of the World program honours documentary heritage of significance for Australia and the world and advocates for its preservation. This is the second inscription for the University Archives on the Australian Register. Additionally, earlier this year, the University Archives and the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s Macleay Collections were part of a joint nomination with the National Library and Archives of Tuvalu, State Library of NSW, National Library of Australia, and the Australian Museum in having the University’s Tuvalu records and objects added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for Asia and Pacific.
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