Lest We Forget
Record attendance at the five services across the coast demonstrated that the ANZAC tradition is in Australia’s core. All ages – children, families, soldiers and ex-service men and women stood side by side, and listened to the Last Post – one hundred years after the landing at Gallipoli in World War I. We shall remember them.
Commemorating 100 years of the ANZAC in Rainbow Beach
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- Rainbow Beach RSL Sub Branch members John Molkentien, Ray Beaufoy, John Ackery, Pat Nayler and Padre Bruce Dorman at the ANZAC Day Dawn Service – the “best ever” for Rainbow Beach with record crowds and perfect weather
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- Local RSL President, Joe Casey and his granddaughter led the March
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- Rainbow Beach was in safe hands for ANZAC Day 2015 with the British A-Company 1st Battalion Gurka Rifles marching alongside our RAAF 1SQN
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- RAAF 1SQN
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- Fantastic numbers of our lifesavers marched for the Centenary
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- Rainbow Beach State school students waved their flags – they really do appreciate taking part on ANZAC Day
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- Huge numbers of crowds (including proud parents) clapped and cheered the procession
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- “Voices of angels”: RBSS choir led by Mrs Cherie Mason
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- Ray Parker lays a wreath for the Good Shepherd Church
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- It is a solemn occasion for our crowds, against our beautiful backdrop
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- Captains Flynn and Baillie represented the school
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- Reverend Bruce Dorman’s granddaughter, Jamie Lee Griffiths, gave us the haunting Last Post – she has kindly played the bugle at our services since she was ten
Thanks to the organisers of this historic event, April 25, 2015. More images on www.facebook.com/RainbowBeachCommunityNews
ANZAC Day Centenary in Tin Can Bay
Images Karen Van der Heijde
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- The veterans and families
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- Visiting Gurka battalion joined the March at Tin Can Bay
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- Thanks for the music, Gympie and District Caledonian Pipes and Drums Band
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- Think Like A Pony stand out in their orange, honouring the Lighthorse Brigades
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- David Grice led the proceedings on this special ANZAC Ceremony in Tin Can Bay
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- There was a fantastic attendance, up on previous years, with a least 700 at the dawn service and a similar number, probably 500-700 attended the March and Wreath laying Ceremony
