Apr 27, 2015

ANZAC Day 2015

A brilliant day in town, starting with an early morning rise to get to the dawn service. The service was awe inspiring. I usually go to the mid morning march but I thought because this was a super special ANZAC day I would get out of bed and join the early one.

It was cold, the gentle breeze was almost icy and I was tempted at that stage to run back to my warm bed, but when the march started I quickly filled with anticipation. The military cars and the firies, police and returned servicemen proudly marched and then the cadets and the crowd followed at the end of the line. I wanted some photo’s of the ceremony for this post but I was really struggling to get through the crowd. There was at least 600 people attending this march.

The service was beautiful, wreaths were laid, the last post was played loud and clear and then a respectful minutes silence…just perfect. All the while, the army cadets stood with the flags and didn’t move. Well done cadets, you must have been really cold.

Straight after the service the fire brigade had cooked some bacon, sausage and poached eggs for us all together with a nice hot coffee. Everyone was in the spirit of things at this point and you felt ready to attend the next service which was equally as emotional.

Once again they served us a light lunch afterwards of tea, coffee and sandwiches and then on to the variety show called Entertaining the Troops. At the show we were treated to local talents singing, dancing and entertaining us and they put on a superb show.

Through marches, entertaining us, feeding us, photographing us, making and planting poppies, every member of our community was involved in ANZAC day

Lest we forget