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Group: aus.aviation · Group Profile
Author: FrankFrank Date: May 2, 2008 02:43
Nick O'Tyme wrote:
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> "Peter J Smyth" industries.com> wrote in message
> news:4813bb2f$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...>>
>> "Snapper" y7mail.com> wrote in message
>> news:025e456c$0$25052$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...>>> Stephen James wrote...
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>>>> I would imagine that there were many fly pasts today (Anzac Day), I
>>>> didn't hear of any forced landings. I guess we lucked out again.
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>>> Yep, and for the past 90 years, too, presuming that they had Anzac Day
>>> from 1919 onwards...
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>> The date, 25 April, was officially named ANZAC Day in 1916 and was marked
>> by a wide variety of ceremonies and services in Australia, a march through
>> London, and a sports day in the Australian camp in Egypt.
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>> The first official dawn service did not occur until 1927 at Sydney.
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> I was always led to believe that the first dawn service was in Albany, WA.
> Some dispute as to when - 1923 or 1930 but conducted by Reverend White who
> was an AIF padre.
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> Albany was the last view of Australia that the departing troops had.
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> cheers
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"Austrlian War Memorial" Site states:
"After the First World War, returned soldiers sought the comradeship they
felt in those quiet, peaceful moments before dawn. With symbolic links to
the dawn landing at Gallipoli, a dawn stand-to or ceremony became a common
form of ANZAC Day remembrance during the 1920s; the first official dawn
service was held at the Sydney Cenotaph in 1927."
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