Claiming Anzac : the battle for the Hyde Park Memorial, Sydney

The decade after the end of the Great War saw many disagreements taking place as to how the war should be commemorated. The Anzac Memorial in Sydney's Hyde Park was a particularly contested space, with heated disagreement over the projected memorial's site and function continuing from 1919 until 1929. Drawing on some of the previously published scholarship on the memorial, and on feminist analyses of war grief, this article expands on what is currently known about the Anzac Memorial controversy, and explores how civilian women felt that they, too, had a claim on Anzac and the values that it symbolised.