Statue of Remembrance - Westmead Children's Hospital, NSW
S 33° 48.020 E 150° 59.614
56H E 314263 N 6258173
On the northern side of The Westmead Children's Hospital is this poignant statue, very close to the Ronald MacDonald House, of two children.
Waymark Code: WMXGG7
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 01/09/2018
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This Figurative Sculpture depicts: Two children, innocently playing, with a young girl wearing a sun hat, encouraging a squatting young boy who is pushing a toy car along the ground.
It is in cast bronze, on a circular plinth, outside the Ronald McDonald House of The Westmead Children's Hospital, 'central' Sydney. Behind the sculpture is the Labyrinth.
There are two bronze plaques for this sculpture, and the one on the low, angled plinth reads:
The Statue of Remembrance
Was unveiled on
28 March 1997
by
Dr John Yu Am
We thank the members of the Rotary Club of
Guildford and the Inner Wheel Club of
Guildford, long standing benefactors of the
Oncology Unit, for their significant bequest to
this statue. We also thank the Oncology
Families, Staff and Friends who have helped us
along the journey to completion of this work,
particularly Patience Devas and Alan Crawford.
While the curved bronze plaque, on the front of the circular plinth that the sculpture sits on, reads:
Remember our precious children
Their great Strength and enormous love,
Their struggles, their triumphs and their tragedies.
We bring these memories with us from Camperdown
and rest them gently here.
Together we look to the future.
They are our Children.
The Statue of Remembrance was commissioned by Oncology Unit
parents to commemorate all children treated for cancer at
the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children at Camperdown to
1995, and now at the new Children's Hospital at Westmead.
Our memories of, and our great love for Camperdown will
remain within our hearts.
Sculptor: Patience Devas
Casting: Crawford's Casting Pty Ltd, Sydney
Visited: 1648, Friday, 18 November, 2016