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Monday Edition
In honour of ANZAC Day, today’s newsletter will not be a ‘traditional’ Monday newsletter. Today, we as Australians will be attending our local Dawn Services to commemorate the Australian men and women who sacrificed their lives for each and every one of us. We know that for some of our members, attending a Dawn Service may not be possible, so we wanted to bring a ‘newsletter’ Dawn Service to you. To each and every one of you who have ever fought for this country or have suffered as a result of war, we just want to say: We know thank you will never be enough, but thank you for the sacrifices you made, so that we, and future generations could be here today. You will never be forgotten. If you feel comfortable, please feel free to share what ANZAC Day means to you or take the opportunity to commemorate someone or something important to you on this day with the rest of our community.
We will start today’s newsletter with an adapted version of the ANZAC Requiem, thanks to the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee. Followed by an extremely special ANZAC Day Poem sent in by one of our very own members Dennis Ringrose, Ex Sherwood Foresters & Royal Warwickshire Regiments, followed by The Ode and finally, The Last Post.
On this day, above all days, we remember the Australian men and women who died or suffered in the great tragedy of war. On the morning of April 25th, 1915, Australian and New Zealand troops landed under fire at Gallipoli, and it was then and in the violent campaign which followed, that the ANZAC tradition was forged. The elements of that tradition have inspired and offered an enduring example to later generations of Australians.
Each and every year we pay homage not only to those original ANZACs, but to all who died or were disabled in their service to this beautiful country. They enrich our nation’s history. Their hope was for the freedom of mankind and we remember with pride their courage, their compassion and their comradeship. They served on land and sea and in the air, in many places throughout the world. Not only do we honour the memory of those Australians who have fallen in battle; we share the sorrow of those who have mourned them and of all who have been the victims of armed conflict.
On this day we remember with sympathy those Australians who have suffered as prisoners of war, and those who, because of war, have had their lives shortened or handicapped. We recall staunch friends and allies, and especially those of the first ANZAC Day. May we and our successors prove worthy of their sacrifice.
Today is such an important day in Australian history and we wanted to make sure that today’s newsletter wasn’t just like every other day’s newsletter. We wanted to make it special. One member, Dennis Ringrose, very kindly sent through his ANZAC Day Poem he published
back in 2002. It is a beautiful read, one that is guaranteed to draw a tear and even a laugh. We highly recommend you give this poem a read here. We have also published a blurb about Dennis, so you can get to know a little more about the author.
Of course, this is not the end of today’s newsletter. We have plenty in store for your newsletter Dawn Service below, but out of respect to the Australian men and women who died or suffered in the great tragedy of war, we will end the introduction of this newsletter with: Lest We Forget.
Thank you and take care, members.
- Jonathan, Vella, Sean, James & Maddie.
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Source: Australian War Memorial
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A. Robert Sam Simpson
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B. Sean Charles Smith
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C. John Simpson Kirkpatrick
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D. Patrick Sean Smith
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Scroll to the bottom of the newsletter for the answer.
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Source: The Australia I Remember FB Group
We stumbled upon this unforgettable photograph earlier in the week and it was captioned with the following, “This photograph captures the incredible bond between soldiers and their horses. The loyal and courageous horses of two fallen Australian light horsemen stand behind their graves. Both men were killed when they were ambushed on the 29th of September 1918. The fallen light horsemen were Sergeant Louis Shannon Brook MM, of Pimpinio, Victoria, and Trooper Clarence William Radburn, of Neville, New South Wales, both of the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment.”
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Source: Twitter
The Ode
The Ode comes from ‘For the Fallen’, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in the Winnowing Fan; Poems of the Great War in 1914. The verse, which became the League Ode, was already used in association with commemoration services in Australia in 1921.
It is an incredibly beautiful verse, one that touches us every year, regardless of how many times we have heard it.
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Today there is only one thing we will be reflecting on and that is that on this morning, the 25th of April, back in 1915 the ANZACs set out to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied navies. The objective was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and an ally of Germany. When the ANZACs landed on Gallipoli they met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. Their plan to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months.
To commemorate our ANZACs, but also all Australian men and women who have lost their lives or suffered in the great tragedy of war, we have a beautiful video of The Last Post being played at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. In military tradition, the Last Post is the bugle call that signifies the end of the day's activities. It is also sounded at military funerals to indicate that the soldier has gone to his final rest. Watch the video here.
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Finally, it was important to keep the spirits high for the ANZACs, so we thought what better way then to wrap up today’s special ANZAC Day Edition Newsletter with a few ‘Jokes from the Trenches of the ANZACs’
A general and a captain walking down the street passed a number of soldiers, and each time one of them saluted the officers, the captain saluted back and said, “The same to you.”
“Why do you always say that?” the general asked the captain.
Oooh, these jokes are a must-read, members! It's so nice to end this newsletter with a nice laugh. Check out the rest of the jokes here.
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John Simpson Kirkpatrick (1892-1915), soldier, 'the man with the donkey', was born on 6 July 1892 at Shields, County Durham, England, son of Robert Kirkpatrick (d. 1909), merchant seaman, and his wife Sarah Simpson. In May 1910 Kirkpatrick deserted at Newcastle, New South Wales. On 25 August 1914 as John Simpson he joined the Australian Imperial Force. He was known to his fellow diggers as 'Murphy', 'Scotty', 'Simmie', or simply 'the bloke with the donk'. His inspirational work and good fortune, however, were to be short-lived. On 19 May he was shot in Monash valley and buried on the beach at Hell Spit. He was mentioned in orders of the day and in dispatches and though
recommended, he received no bravery award.
Lest We Forget.
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