Sunday, 26 April 2015

ANZAC DAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Around the Anzac Services across the Country
Well a big thank you to all the people that took the time to send in their photos on ANZAC day.
Jack Mann was at Gallipoli. Cove at the 100year Service and had an experience he never forget. Jack we thought the photos were great.
Finished the walk up artillery road from dawn service to Lone Pine ceremony.
Flotilla of about 15 Turkish British French Australian and Kiwi Navy boats passed our Ferry heading into Agean. ANZAC with chopper on deck poms with amphibious landing craft
We had Annie Hesse at Gove
Hundreds gathered at the Gove Boat Club and the Cenotaph for ANZAC day commemorative services.
Current and ex-servicemen, together with members of community and a large group of school students marched in the annual ANZAC Day parade.
David and Gina Warriner at Adelaide River Northern Territory,
Jess Beckhouse and Rosalyn Beckhouse at Pine Creek Northern Territory
Townsville had the Military base and was well supported on the day in Townsville.
Shane Young Richmond
Bribie Island with Stephanie Robbins John Robbins was snapped by his granddaughter gotcha pop.
David Frost in Samoa, dawn Parade Apia Samoa, the first country in the world to honour the Anzac and the sons of Samoa who fought with New Zealand at Gallipoli.15,000 people gathered to hear his Excellence the Head of State deliver the key note address
Mayor of Katherine Fay Miller Deputy Minster NT Willem Westra van Holthe, were at the services in Katherine.
A poem entitled TO THE DAY and written by Leading Aircraftwoman Chloe Stevenson from RAAF Base Tindal was read by Wing Commander Mark Larter at the 10am service this morning. Chloe has given permission for the poem to be shared.
A hundred years to the day
Our sons and fathers, were sent away
To meet the call, from friend and foe
the call to war, and glories glow
Young and old, they answered proud
King and Country, to protect they vowed
A hundred years, to the day
Know they not, the price to pay
Of blood and bone and death untold
yet, stoic they were, their spirits bold
From hallowed pine, to haunted shore
Our ANZAC's fought, oaths they swore
A debt was made, on beach and sand
to honour the fallen, of orphaned land
We honour it now, as they did then
a generation lost, of broken men
A hundred years, to the day
Friends and family, stormed the bay
Old they are not, nor years condemn
with rising sun, we remember them.
LEST WE FORGET.
We had Ted and Grace Kirk Gayndah grazier
by
Alistair Brightman
"I WAS proud to serve my country but not proud of all the human beings I killed."
War will haunt Ted Kirk until his last breath.
The 91-year-old Gayndah grazier knows this as well as he knows the inside of a Spitfire cockpit.
This week Mr Kirk relived his war experience as he and his 87-year-old wife Grace travelled across outback Queensland on the Anzac troop train re-enactment.
In 1942 the 18-year-old lad had the world at his feet and dreams of reaching the clouds.
He farewelled his colleagues at a Maryborough bank and set off on a great adventure by enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force.
"I wanted to fly," he says of his arrival at the RAAF base in Brisbane.
And he did.
From airstrips in Brisbane to Kingaroy and Bundaberg to Dubbo, the young officer soared high above the clouds in Tiger Moths.
"It was a real thrill," he says.

Sunday, 26 April 2015
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