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For all advertising please contact… Russell Maddocks Statewide Publishing P/L 0432 042 060 Email: russell@commandonews.com.au www.commandonews.com.au 36 COMMANDO ~ The Magazine of the Australian Commando Association ~ Edition 8 I 2021
Sketch of the Shrine under construction 1931 by Len Annois (1906-1966) pen and ink on paper SLV (H91.290/10) The Shrine was built by an ‘army’ of master builders, labourers, craftsmen, returned soldiers and the unemployed, but individual workers have rarely been given a voice or even a name. A few surviving stories tell of a troubled worksite during the darkest years of the Great Depression. In 2010 builders clearing rubble from the sub - terranean foundations of the Shrine discovered a crate of empty beer bottles dating back to the 1920’s. They then noticed at the base of a brick pillar a small, impasto caricature of a man’s head—made from mortar and signed ‘Lewis.’ The brickie who used a trowel to leave behind this little joke would probably be amused to think that 90 years on, people are still looking at his beautifully crafted brickwork and wondering—who was Lewis? ABC News interviewed Mel Bartlett, a Portland stonemason, in 2014. His grandfather William Thomas quarried the Buchan marble columns for the Sanctuary and Bartlett was sure his grandfather had employed a Lewis, a father of six, during the Shrine’s construction. Tantalisingly, he had no idea if Lewis was his first or last name. Back then hiring, firing and payroll was often delegated to the ‘ganger’—the foreman assigned by the contractor to a specific job on a worksite. This may account for why Shrine employment records seem lost or elusive, and why Lewis is likely to remain an from Remembrance 2021 by shrineofremembrance Shrine Construction Workers, 1928-1934 By Peter Luby anonymous worker on a brick pillar in our Second World War Gallery. Lewis caricature in the Galleries 2014 photographer Peter Glenane Image courtesy of Major Projects Victoria The key creators of the Shrine—architects, surveyors, artisan sculptors—spoke for themselves in letters, public talks and newspaper articles. But the legion of master builders, labourers, craftsmen, exsoldiers and the unemployed who built the Shrine were just ‘workers’, occasionally making the news if there COMMANDO ~ The Magazine of the Australian Commando Association ~ Edition 8 I 2021 37
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