External sculptures

Dellit originally planned for numerous bronze sculptures to adorn the exterior of the Memorial. He planned for a standing figure on each of the corners, - the 'Four Seasons' and sixteen seated figures, four to a side, representing 'the Arts of Peace and War'. Hoff transformed these classicized or allegorical figures to unmistakable Australian figures from the Great War - modern Anzacs in modern military dress, in stylised in modern form - which emphatically locate the Memorial in the Australian present. Their original bronze castings were changed to cast granite (ground granite packed into molds), so that they would seem to be hewn from the building itself, or flowering from the buttresses, in Dellit's own words. The figures, heroic in size and broadly sculptured in sympathy with the character of the architecture, are shown with bowed heads, as if resting after their labours and sadly contemplating the havoc of the war years.

The four standing figures set into the corners of the superstructure are as follows: facing the north-east an infantry Lieutenant representing the army; facing the north-east a matron representing the Army Medical Corps; that facing the south west an Air Force Lieutenant; and facing the south-east a Navy Lieutenant.

On the north facade, from left to right, an Ammunition Carrier, a Bomber (grenadier), a Pioneer, a Lewis-Gunner ( the Lewis gun was a light machine gun.)

On the western facade, from left to right, a Surgeon, a Tunneller, a Field Telephone Mechanic, an Infantryman.

On the southern facade, from left to right, an Air force Mechanic, a Nurse of the Army Medical corps, an Air Force Pilot, a Naval Wireless Operator with ear phones.

And on the eastern facade, from left to right, a Naval Signaller in winter kit, an A.B. Seaman with full landing equipment, a Light Horseman, and a Driver of the Field Artillery.