Saturday, November 12, 2022
A Remembrance Day of Sunshine and Reflection
Saturday, November 5, 2022
A Successful Remembrance Day Appeal
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Monday, October 24, 2022
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Military Brotherhood Group Visits
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
ANZAC Day 2022 Went Well
ANZAC Day at Tanunda went well.
Given that Monday was a public holiday during school holidays, we had an enormous turn-up at both the Dawn Service and the late morning Service after our march from the Tanunda Post Office to the Soldiers' Memorial Hall.The highlight of the Dawn Service was perhaps an address delivered by a senior school student (image at left) from the local Faith Lutheran College. Given the age of the young man, his presentation was flawless, the content emotive and inspiring, and he didn't appear to be the slightest nervous.
After the Dawn Service, we held a Gunfire Breakfast that many people attended. Our bar volunteers served beer including large amounts of Coopers stout, a beverage that doesn't usually sell well during the rest of the year.
Small amounts of Beenleigh rum made its way into coffee, a tradition on this special day.
The Gunfire Breakfast was also attended by a contingent of RAAF serving members who had participated as a catafalque party (you can see several in the image above) or supported them.
Here they are outside our Hut. Those with weapons are obviously part of the catafalque party.Monday, April 25, 2022
Lest We Forget
The Ode is the 4th stanza of the poem For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon. The poem was first published in the British newspaper The Times on 21 September 1914. The poem later appeared in many anthologies of war verse.
In 1919, Binyon’s poem was selected to accompany the unveiling of the London Cenotaph and was adopted as a memorial tradition by many Commonwealth nations. The poem was read at the laying of the Inauguration Stone at the Australian War Memorial in 1929.