War Memorial

On our final day in Canberra we visited the War Memorial, or at least as much of it as we could handle emotionally. The highlight was a film by Peter Jackson (of Lord of the Rings fame) describing the Australian Flying Corps in WW1. We saw some of the wreckage of the Red Baron's Fokker Tri-plane and one of his sheepskin boots which were souveniered by the AFC.

 

The centurion tank outside the building looked as if it had just been parked in the car park - perhaps it is the Memorial director's company car.

Like most of NSW Canberra was in the grip of dust storms and then violent thunder and lightning and torrential rain. We could not see Parliament from the Memorial steps because of the dust. However it was much worse in Sydney.