ANZAC Day

It’s not often that applause breaks out during an ANZAC Day commemoration, but the stirring performance by members of the Bunker’s Hill State School Choir on Thursday morning last week drew such a response.

The gathering for Westbrook’s ANZAC Dawn Service grows each year.

On a crisp Thursday morning, a large crowd gathered at the Barham Cenotaph to remember the Anzacs. The day marks the anniversary of Australian and New Zealand soldiers landing on Gallipoli in 1915 as part of the Allies' invasion.  

As the sun began to rise, hundreds of onlookers including many young families gathered around the cenotaph in Grafton’s Memorial Park at 6am on April 25 to pay their respects during the 2024 Anzac Day Dawn Service.

Nhill’s ANZAC Day dawn service was well attended with over 300 in attendance at the Cenotaph in Goldsworthy Park to commemorate those who have served in the armed forces for Australia and New Zealand, many giving the ultimate sacrifice.

Emergency services were called to Hay Services Club at around 5.45pm on Thursday, after reports of two separate assaults which occurred during ANZAC Day two-up ... Extensive damage to the changerooms at Hay Park was discovered on Sunday morning, by volunteers setting up for a local sport competition.

Robert Jeremy. We are here on this day to remember so that we do not forget. In this small community, so many of us will have family or friends who have served or are serving their country and so this day will have its own special meaning for each of us.

Michelle Daw. The story of John Atkinson, the digger who died on the way to his local Anzac dawn service last week, has captured the hearts of thousands of Australians — and his family and friends have spoken about the larrikin Aussie who did things his own way right to the end. Mr Atkinson, 98, died at about 6.30am, 200 metres from the dawn service site at Port Broughton foreshore lawns...

Ex-Birchip resident, Dennis Smith, served in the Vietnam war as a private soldier 12 Platoon D Company 4th Battalion for 10 months, between April 1968 and April 1969. He provided the large crowd gathered at the Birchip Cenotaph with a moving firsthand encounter of war and a history lesson of our country at war and what it means to our way of life.

Quill. It was foggy, and more than chilly, at 6.30 a.m. at Donald’s Memorial Park, but that did not deter more than a hundred residents from attending the ANZAC Day Service at that time. Welcoming all present, Donald RSL sub-branch president, Carmel Dugan, invited Fr. Gerry Prunty to open proceedings with a prayer.