We Will Remember Them

This ANZAC Day Australians are encouraged to privately commemorate Anzac Day, in-line with the latest health advice, and to watch the service at the Australian War Memorial. While the Service is not open to public attendance, the Service will be nationally broadcast, to enable the public to watch from their own homes. There will also be a range of other commemorative activities that will be broadcast throughout the day. Sadly overseas Anzac Day ceremonies are cancelled for on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, near Villers-Bretonneux in France, including the Australian service at the 'Digger' Memorial, Bullecourt, Hellfire Pass in Thailand, Sandakan in Malaysia and Isurava in Papua New Guinea.

We are also encouraged to record the reciting of The Ode and place it on our social media platforms. The Ode of Remembrance is taken from the Laurence Binyon poem For The Fallen. ... For The Fallen was first published in 1914, not long after the start of World War One. Binyon said he wrote the poem after British and French soldiers retreated from Mons, during the Battle of the Marne, in September 1914.

Words to the Ode:

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."

Lest We Forget