Remembrance (Whakamaharatanga) bell

Remembrance (Whakamaharatanga) bell

  • Width  2403 mm
  • Weight  9278 kg
  • Note  F
Bell Inscription

Remembrance (Whakamaharatanga) 
No man is an island entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
Therefore never send to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
 - Donne, Meditation XVII.

To the Glory of God
This bell is dedicated in commemoration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the end
of World War Two.
Anno Domini 1995.

In 1995 four new bass bells were ordered for the National War Memorial Carillon to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Their installation provided new notes for the instrument and finally completed the Carillon, making it the third largest in the world. 

This bell, 'Remembrance Whakamaharatanga', contains lines from the poem Meditation XVII by the English Renaissance poet John Donne.

This bell was unveiled by Governor-General Dame Catherine Tizard in February 1996, along with the bell 'Hope Tūmanako'

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