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‘The Bomber’ to turn 100

The Bomber, by artist Charles Web Gilbert, located on Argent Street. Picture: Em Jensen
Jack Marx

Jack Marx ONE hundred years ago this week, the pedestal stones arrived for the construction of Broken Hill’s War Memorial, their appearance in the city putting an end to months of controversy and a civic campaign to have the project scuttled. Critics in 1925 claimed the memorial glamourised the violence of war, and both the […]

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