From THE JERUSALEM POST, Apr. 8, 2008, by Greer Fay Cashman:
AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR James Larsen is extremely busy this month making preparations for the annual ANZAC Day ceremony at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery on Mount Scopus, to be followed soon after by the dedication of the Park of the Australian Soldier in Beersheba. The park is yet another project of the Melbourne-based Pratt Foundation, which has set up numerous projects here. Its centerpiece is a life-size bronze memorial by noted Australian sculptor Peter Corlett, commemorating the charge of the Australian Light Horse on October 31, 1917.
Corlett is currently here to oversee the installation of the sculpture depicting a mounted horseman with drawn bayonet leaping over Turkish sandbags.....
The park, developed in cooperation with the Beersheba Municipality and the Beersheba Foundation...will be officially dedicated on April 28 at a ceremony to be attended by President Shimon Peres, Australian Governor General Maj.-Gen. Michael Jeffrey and other Israeli and Australian dignitaries....
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