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the perceived need for creating windbreaks in an otherwise open and exposed landscape.

Weston's successors as Director of Parks and Gardens were Alexander Bruce (1926-1938), John Hobday (1938-1944) and Lindsay Pryor (1944-1958).

Bruce continued to implement Weston's planting yet added seasonal flowering plants such as Prunus trees and roses, whilst Pryor altered the Weston tradition in promoting the creation of parkland spaces for people, and the integration of eucalypts into the garden that Canberra had become.

By 1933, Prospect Parkway was designated as Anzac Park and seeds from war cemeteries in France and Gallipoli were received with the intention of continuing the planting within Anzac Park.  This appeared to continue until after World War 2 when the park layout was reconsidered and the former intricate flower beds were eliminated.

By 1938 the western arm of Canberra Avenue was renamed Gallipoli Avenue.

In November 1941 the Australian War Memorial was completed following a long design process.  This was initiated in 1919, followed by an architectural competition in 1927 in which no winner was selected, but two of the entrants, Emil Sodersten and John Crust were encouraged to submit a joint proposal.  The landscape setting for the schemes developed by Sodersten and Crust included the integration of the war memorial southern forecourt with what was to become Anzac Park.  Sodersten's 1936 plan indicates the concept of a belt of trees framing the Land Axis, with the roundabout and the forecourt as one defining gesture.  This concept appears to have been developed by Richard Clough in the National Capital Development Commission in the 1960s.

Following the resignation of Sodersten in 1938, the landscape design for the war memorial setting was informed by Crust and Tom Parramore, a former student at Burnley School of Horticulture in Melbourne who had recently returned from working in England.  Parramore was recommended by Charles Bean, the journalist, war correspondent and historian who played a major role in promoting the development of the Australian War Memorial.  Bean's garden at Lindfield had been designed by Parramore in 1937.

The economic constraints during World War 2 resulted in a composition of terraces and a roadway to the front entrance of the Australian War Memorial, surrounded by lawns.

  Figure 69.  Detail of 1930 aerial photograph showing northern Land Axis
  Source:  Reid 2002, p. 196

  Figure 70.  Detail of view from Mount Ainslie south along the Land Axis, late 1930s
  Source:  National Archives of Australia, A3560, 908

  Figure 71.  Sodersten's 1936 plan of the approaches to the Australian War Memorial
  Source:  Australian Garden History Journal, Vol. 18, No. 3, Nov/Dec/Jan 2006/2007, p. 10

  Figure 72.  Detail of Prospect Parkway, 1945 aerial photograph
  Source:  Gray 1999, p. 184, RAAF Airphoto 12 March 1945

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