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Federal Member for Corangamite
SARAH HENDERSON
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Captain G.H.Wilkins
We will remember them.
At the going down of the
sun and in the morning,
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
To learn more about the Anzacs, visit anzacportal.dva.gov.au
I’d encourage you to attend a local service on Anzac Day to
remember and commemorate more than a century of service and
sacrifice by those Australian men and women who have served –
and continue to serve – in defence of our values and freedoms.
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They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Captain J.F. Hurley
the ode
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
(HURLEY COLLECTION) 6297817
Hurley’s colleague Captain George
Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958) was awarded
the Military Cross in June 1918 for helping
wounded soldiers under fire. He is the only
Australian official photographer to have
been decorated.
Official AIF Photographer Captain James
Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) captured
this image, a rare moment of respite for the
infantrymen of the 1st Australian Division on
the Western Front at Ypres, Belgium in 1917.
Official war photographers have long played
an essential role working in often dangerous
conditions to record the war experience.
Through the lens
This milestone year – the centenary of the Anzac landing at
Gallipoli – is significant beyond measure in our nation’s history.
By the end of the First World War in 1918, a young nation’s
identity was emerging, reflecting the sacrifice of the Anzacs at
Gallipoli, on the Western Front and in the Middle East.
News of the campaign had a profound impact back home.
Reports of the Anzacs’ courage under fire, commitment to the
task, loyalty and mateship forged a powerful and lasting legacy.
Heavy casualties were suffered on both sides and a stalemate
developed. The campaign dragged on for eight months and
soldiers endured extraordinary hardships.
The Anzacs went ashore under the cover of darkness, but as
morning dawned they faced an entrenched enemy and rugged,
unforgiving terrain.
Soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
(ANZAC) faced a formidable task – to seize the Gallipoli Peninsula
and suppress the Ottoman defences guarding the Dardanelles.
On 25 April 1915 thousands of brave young men
went ashore on a foreign beach in a far and distant land.
Commemorating 100 years
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ANZAC
LOCAL S ERVICES
Please consider attending a local service.
We recommend checking service and event times
closer to the date.
Saturday 25th April
Anglesea
9.15am March, service & wreath laying
March from cnr of Noble St & Great
Ocean Rd, service at Anglesea RSL
Apollo Bay
6.00am Dawn Service, cnr of Great Ocean Rd &
Nelson St
10.45am March, commencing at cnr of Great
Ocean Rd & Moore St
11.00am Service & wreath laying, cnr of Great
Ocean Rd & Nelson St
Bannockburn
6.00am Dawn Service, Bannockburn Monument
11.30am Pre-match service, Bannockburn Golf
Club
Barwon Heads
8.45am March, service & wreath laying. March
commences cnr Hitchcock Av & Bridge
Rd
Beeac
6.00am
Dawn Service, Beeac Cenotaph
Birregurra (Note: Friday 24th April)
1.00pm Service, school children assemble in front
of Birregurra Hall
Colac
6.00am Dawn Service, Memorial Square, Colac
10.00am March, cnr of Gellibrand & Murray St to
St Mary’s
11.00am Service & wreath laying, Memorial
Square
Geelong
4.15am Pre-Dawn Service, Johnstone Park
9.00am Anzac Day Mass, St Mary’s Basilica
9.30am Wreath laying, Geelong RSL, 50 Barwon
Heads Rd, Belmont
11.00am March, leave cnr of Malop & Yarra St
11.30am Service, Johnstone Park
2.00pm Pre-Game Dedication Service, Geelong
Past Players Memorial Garden, Kardinia
Park
SARAH
HENDERSON
Inverleigh
9.15am March, RSL to monument for wreath
laying & service. Retire to Inverleigh
Public Hall for Anzac address & morning
tea
12.15pm Pre-Game Service, Inverleigh Football
Ground
Lorne
7.00am Dawn Service, Anzac Memorial Park
11.00am March, Lorne Senior Citizens Hall to
Anzac Park for service & wreath laying
Meredith
9.45am Service, Meredith Memorial Hall
Ocean Grove
6.00am Dawn Service, Ocean Grove Cenotaph
9.45am March, The Terrace to Ocean Grove Park
Queenscliff
5.45am Dawn Service, Ocean View car park,
Hesse St
10.15am March, assemble at Queenscliff Post
Office
10.45am Form up & march to Fort Queenscliff
11.00am Service, on the green inside Fort
Queenscliff
Point Lonsdale
8.30am March, assemble at Point Lonsdale shops
8.40am Form up & march to cnr Kirk &
Glaneuse Rd
Commemorative Service at Cenotaph
9.00am
ANZ AC
BIS CUITS
Ingredients
• 1 cup each of plain flour, sugar,
rolled oats and coconut
• 4 ounces butter (115g)
• 1 tablespoon treacle (golden syrup)
• 2 tablespoons boiling water (add a
little more water if mixture is too dry)
• 1 teaspoon bi-carbonate soda
Method
1.Grease tray and pre-heat oven to 180°C.
2.Combine dry ingredients.
3.Melt together butter and golden syrup.
Combine water and bi-carbonate soda –
add to butter mixture.
4.Mix butter mixture and dry ingredients.
5.Drop teaspoons of mixture onto tray.
6.Bake for 10 – 15 minutes or until golden.
Allow to cool on tray for a few minutes
before transferring to cooling racks.
* Makes approximately 35 biscuits
ANZAC
(From an original recipe provided by Mr Bob Lawson,
an ANZAC present at the Gallipoli landing.)
Rokewood
6.00am Dawn Service, Corindhap
10.45am March, RSL Hall for wreath laying
ceremony, Main St, Rokewood
Shelford
7.45am
Service & wreath laying, monument,
Main Rd
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Teesdale
7.00am Service & wreath laying, Teesdale
Monument
Army biscuits, known as Anzac wafers or
tiles, were a hard biscuit eaten by soldiers as
a bread substitute. They were often ground
up and eaten as porridge.
Winchelsea
11.00am Service & wreath laying, Eastern Reserve
The origin of the Anzac biscuit
Torquay
5.45am
6.00am
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Federal Member for Corangamite
March, cnr The Esplanade & Price St to
Point Danger
Dawn Service, Point Danger
Lest we forget
Phone 03 5243 1444
Email [email protected]
Commemorating 100 years of ANZAC spirit
A Commemorative Newsletter
The Anzac biscuit we are familiar with
today was developed by the wives and
girlfriends of our soldiers. A sweet biscuit
made of rolled oats and bound with golden
syrup or treacle (eggs were scarce during
the war) were sent to the frontline by ships
of the Merchant Navy.
Sarah Henderson mp
Federal Member for Corangamite
Authorised by S. Henderson MP, 3A/195 Colac Rd, Waurn Ponds VIC 3216.
Printed by Adams Print, 58 Leather Street, Breakwater VIC 3219.
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1915
2015
ANZAC
Commemorating 100 years
From the shores of Gallipoli
to the valleys of Afghanistan
– in theatres of war and peace –
this Anzac Day, we commemorate
100 years of service and sacrifice
by the men and women of the
Australian Defence Force.
AUSTRALIANS AT WAR 1915 – 2015
Indonesian Confrontation
Gulf War
Afghanistan
1914-18
1939-45
1950-53
1950-60
1962-75
1963-66
1990-91
2001-present
From every corner of our nation,
ordinary men and women signed up.
Through their deeds they helped to
define our national identity.
Eager for adventure, they came from country
towns and farms, suburbs and cities, driven by a
sense of patriotic duty.
From a population of fewer than five million,
417,000 men enlisted. By the end of the war,
more than 60,000 Australians had been killed and
156,000 wounded, gassed or taken prisoner.
Among those to answer the call were Indigenous
Australians. Although they faced considerable
hurdles to enlist, we now know around 1,300
Indigenous Australians served in the First World War.
Those who took up arms endured the war
experience the same as every other soldier - they
received the same training, the same pay and
many made the supreme sacrifice.
Nursing was one of the most direct ways women
supported the troops. More than 3,000 nurses
volunteered for military service abroad.
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From labourer to ANZAC
Pte. Miller Mack was
a labourer from Point
McLeay, South Australia
before serving in France
with the 50th Battalion.
Rosemary
The Gallipoli Campaign wasn’t the
end of Australia’s involvement in the
First World War – far from it.
From the frontline
Diaries, letters and postcards offered
troops a small respite from the hardships
of war. Today they give us an invaluable
insight into life on the frontline.
Following is an account of the Gallipoli landings
from Private (later Brigadier) Arthur Blackburn.
Blackburn was awarded the Victoria Cross for
valour in the face of the enemy after he led an
attack at Pozières, France in July 1916.
“The beach was very rocky and it was not the easiest
thing on earth to clamber over big slippery rocks. All
this time bullets were whizzing all around us and
men were falling here and there. I rushed across the
shore to the shelter of a small bank and there shed my
pack and fixed my bayonet then straight on to drive
the beggars away.The way our chaps went at it was a
sight for the gods; no one attempted to fire but we just
went straight on up the side of the cliff, pushing our
way through thick scrub and often clambering up the
steep sides of the cliff on all fours.”
(Les Carlyon, Gallipoli, MacMillan, Sydney 2005)
For more stories from the frontline, or to search for a family member
who served, visit www.awm.gov.au
Hundreds of thousands of diggers went on to
fight the Germans on the Western Front.
It was at Villers-Bretonneux in France – exactly
three years after Australian troops stormed ashore
at Gallipoli – that they played a pivotal role in
the Allied victory.
Two Australian brigades supported by British
troops were assigned the task of recapturing
Villers-Bretonneux, which had fallen to the
Germans on the morning of 24 April 1918.
Shortly after nightfall, the Anzacs launched their
assault – a ferocious house-to-house battle that
went through the night. By dawn on 25 April,
Anzac Day, the town of Villers-Bretonneux was
in Australian hands.
The Anzacs were lauded for their bravery, but the
cost of battle was high. Some 2,400 Australian
men were killed, missing or wounded.
General Sir John Monash
(1865-1931)
Few Australians define the spirit
and capacity of the Anzacs as
much as General Sir John Monash,
who commanded the Australian
Corps on the Western Front.
One of his greatest victories was
the Battle of Amiens in August
1918, a campaign critical to
breaking the German Army.
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Traditions & Symbols
After Gallipoli
More than a thousand words...
Signaller Pte. Ellis Silas sketched
his experiences at Gallipoli.
Peacekeeping
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AT ANZAC, MAY 1915
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Beneath the slouch hats
Iraq
2003-09; 2014-present
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Vietnam War
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Malayan Emergency
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Korean War
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Second World War
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First World War
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On the homefront
The Great War came at a significant
economic and social cost to Australia.
Australia borrowed heavily to fund the war effort
and great sacrifices were made. The necessary
priority of military over civilian consumption
led to rationing.
Agricultural production was redirected to fulfill
meat and wool contracts to the British Empire.
Trade embargoes and shipping shortages led to a
rise in manufacturing, such as steel-making and
pharmaceuticals, but inflation ate into wages.
Times were tough, but Australians accepted that
to go without was to support the troops.
The physical and financial burden of caring
for families increasingly fell to women, with
many working as cooks, drivers and in relief
organisations such as Red Cross – ‘victory’ jobs
that aided the war effort.
Schools and churches centred their efforts on
fundraising and morale-building and the Red
Cross organised the manufacture of clothing
and other home comforts for the troops.
Supporting the war effort and keeping the
home fires burning took the efforts of an
entire nation.
Rosemary is worn as a symbol of remembrance
on Anzac Day. It is a herb found growing wild
on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The Flanders Poppy is
also becoming increasingly associated with Anzac
Day, although it was traditionally only worn on
Remembrance Day, 11 November.
The Last Post
The Last Post historically has been used to
signify the end of the day. It is played during
ceremonies to serve as a tribute to the dead.
Reveille & Rouse
Reveille is a bright, cheerful call that woke
soldiers at dawn and called them to duty. Rouse
is a shorter bugle call normally sounded alongside
The Last Post at remembrance services, except
the Dawn Service when Reveille is played.
The Ode
The Ode is the fourth stanza of Laurence
Binyon’s (1869-1943) poem, ‘For the Fallen’, and
has been recited in ceremonies since 1919.
A period of silence
One or two minutes silence is held as a time
for reflection and a sign of respect.
With thanks and appreciation to
the Australian War Memorial.
SARAH
HENDERSON
Federal Member for Corangamite
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