VOLUME 21
Club of Woodend
MAY 2017 Volume 21 // Issue 4 FIRST PUBLISHED 1997 | FREE
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To honour their sacrifice, to salute their service,to learn from the price, they paid…
ANZAC DAY 2017:
Thousands pay tribute to the ANZACs at services across the Macedon Ranges Mount Macedon’s Anzac Day dawn service this year reflected on the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, an event that led to up to 3 ½ years of internment for over 15,000 Australian and New Zealand troops stationed there. In this centenary year of the First World War, we commemorate the Charge of the Australian Light Horse at the Battle of Be’er-sheba. The tradition of the Dawn Service continues to bring us together to reflect on the ultimate and enduring sacrifice
of the many Servicemen and Women of Australia and New Zealand and those of many other nations. Following the dawn service Woodend RSL Subbranch hosted the traditional Gunfire Breakfast before a sizable crowd lined High Street for the Anzac Day parade as Defence personnel, schools, service organisations and community groups took part in the Anzac Day commemorations. by A. May
PHOTOS COURTESY GRANT HOCKING TOP LEFT: WOODEND’S ANZAC DAY MARCH . RIGHT: BRAEMAR COLLEGE CADETS ON PARADE BOTTOM RIGHT: A LARGE CROWD GATHERED AT WOODEND’S RSL FOLLOWING THE MARCH. LEFT: KEN BRYCE, CHARLES STONER AND RSL WOODEND PRESIDENT BARRY MELDRUM.
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