Remembering our Aussie and Kiwi brothers –
ANZAC DAY 2015
Photo opportunities are all over Australia and New Zealand this morning
as we commemorate,
the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.
While the major centres receive a majority of media publicity
it is the rural areas which were settled by
returned soldiers from two World Wars
It is these same small towns who may have had their
heart and soul ripped out with the death
of well known identities, sportsman and family members.
This post is in memory of of all the service men and women
who have served our country
and whose home was a small rural centre.
For those service men and women…
Lest We Forget.
I would like to visit Courcelette, in France, sometime in the next few years as my Grandfather served on the Western Front and was awarded a Distinguished Conduct Medal at Courcelette during World War I.
This photograph is now in the public…
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Thank you for re-posting my ANZAC Day post.
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No thanks necessary for it at all, my friend. I only wish I had a chance to get a gunfire breakfast Saturday 🙂
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I was deemed medically unfit for Vietnam…so no active service. Gunfire Breakfast is a new term to me. Does it mean in battle?
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Well (I say as the non-Aussie), I guess it replicates the breakfast they served the men – coffee with Bundaberg and some ANZAC biscuits. Go to dawn service, then have a gunfire breakfast.
-Again, said the guy who DIDN’T land at Gallipoli…
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That battle was a dang mess…
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Yes – yes it was. I was disappointed that the WW I portion of the Australian War Memorial was under renovation when I was in Canberra last. But I’ve had friends tell me stories about places like Hill 60 and the debacle at Suvla Bay.
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