May2012_ANZAC DAY 2012
This year’s Dawn Service, the first with the Cenotaph relocated to Roderick Cruice Park (near the stage and pool), saw a crowd of 260 roll-up.
The 9.30am parade attracted 220 marchers representing the various clubs, organisations and schools and 540 participated in the service at the memorial in the showgrounds.
The reading of a letter penned by a local lad just days prior to his being killed in action brought out the goose-bumps and a truer sense of what it was like for the residents of the district during the war years.
In Dayboro style, poet Russell Plunkett recited 2 of his poems related to our ANZACs. One, “When the Order Came to Ride”, was about the Australian Light Horseman. This was accompanied by Malcolm Stubbings, mounted and in appropriate period uniform, riding his horse along the roadway in front of the assembled crowd.
Malcolm on his horse is pictured below, with poet,
Russell Plunkett, inset at top right.
The reading of a letter penned by a local lad just days prior to his being killed in action brought out the goose-bumps and a truer sense of what it was like for the residents of the district during the war years.
In Dayboro style, poet Russell Plunkett recited 2 of his poems related to our ANZACs. One, “When the Order Came to Ride”, was about the Australian Light Horseman. This was accompanied by Malcolm Stubbings, mounted and in appropriate period uniform, riding his horse along the roadway in front of the assembled crowd.
Malcolm on his horse is pictured below, with poet,
Russell Plunkett, inset at top right.
