ANZAC Day:

[Bruce_in_Oz]

109 years on.

Our "little" local dawn and general services keep getting bigger every year.

The Dawn Service park was overflowing. Light mist, just for "effect" (Thank-you Bureau of Meteorology). Good speeches, excellent Army Band. Piper for the Lament and really good bugle operator. Then, the whole shebang moved a couple of blocks to a MUCH bigger park to receive the official march for the "suburb / district". Thousands rolled up. Basically a slightly expanded version of the Dawn Service, with better visibility. (And a good, combined-schools choir).

One detail: Lots of people wearing a sprig of Rosemary, which grows wild in the Gallipoli region, and many also wore a red (paper) poppy, more usually associated with Remembrance / Armistice Day. But, they were THERE for the services.