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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: LYNIE on Friday 24 April 09 23:26 BST (UK)
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i went to the dawn service this morning for anzac day to remember my ancestors who fought for this country, a very moving service ...LEST WE FORGET.....
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I diddn`t go to a service for Anzac day :-[ but yes LEST WE FORGET
Johngirl [a Legacy child]
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My first time at a Dawn Service today up @ Blackboy Hill in WA. What a touching experience it was.
I have driven past the memorial several times a week for years and never visited.
I will be going next year again and bringing my boy as well.
Lest We Forget
Troods
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I also went to The Anzac service for the first time, remembrance for The Australian and New Zealanders who die at Gallipolli first world war. Also in remembrance for our other fallen.
Let us not forget that 30,000 British and 10,000 French also died at Gallipolli with 8,000 Aussies and over 2,000 Kiwis.
Pam
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Lest we Forget,
Daizi
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Lest we forget.
KHP
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...and a verse taken from
"For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget
Susie
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Lest we not forget..... :'(
Also, let's not forget the young men and women who today are still deployed on foreign soils....and those that have lost their lives.
mab
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Dawn Service has allways been a tradition in our family. My husband and son were service men as were my father and his father and his father who both fought in WW1.
Every year we give thanks and say many a quiet prayer for those still serving and those gone before.
I remember in my thoughts each year my Great Uncle Arthur William Shoebridge who died at Gallopili 27th August, 1915. My Grandmother named my father after him.
There would not be too many Australian families who didn't lose a family member in WW1
We will remember them.
"Lest we forget"
Jenn
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Lest We Forget
Iria (Liverpool England )
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My family lost two brave young service men in France in WW1, and a third when he couldn't live with his memories upon his return to Australia.
This year I didn't make a Dawn Service, but did watch the televised ANZAC March in my home city.
Lest We Forget.
And may all those serving in troublespots around the world stay safe.
Dee
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Let's not also forget the men who came back from war missing limbs and shellshocked who had to entirely change their lives and assimilate back in to a society that ostracised some of them...the changed men, who's families would not talk about it...we forget about those who came back alive but felt dead....
Let's think of them to.
Sarndra
www.sarndra.com
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Lest we forget
I have watched it on TV today and remembered all my ancesters who were in all the different wars including WW1 and WW2
Newbe
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Went to the Dawn Service today. I always find it very moving.
The rain actually held off for the duration of the service.
Remembering Great Uncle Harry - K.I.A. France, 1st Oct 1917. Lest we forget.
Cheers, Chris
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Lest we forget.
My father was at Gallipoli , then in France.
One of my brothers died in RAAF over Germany and another fought in the Middle East and PNG.
charlotte
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Remembering all those who didn't return home - and all those who did - with very grateful thanks to every one of them.
B. (South Wales, UK)