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The Spirit Lives
ANZAC Day 2015 is the 100th Anniversary of the ANZAC Cove landings at Gallipoli in World War One. This year will be an extremely moving service, and record breaking crowds are expected at dawn services across the country.
This year, the RSL and Department of Veterans Affairs are encouraging Australian's to 'go local' - they are asking us to return to our home towns to boost numbers at services all across the country, not just in the big cities.
It's expected that the commemoration services in overseas countries will be well-attended by Australians too. These will include services at:
Gallipoli, Turkey
Lone Pine Cemetery, Turkey
Villers-Bretonneux, France
Digger Memorial, Bullecourt, France
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Isurava Memorial, Papua New Guinea
Sandakan Memorial Park, Sabah, Malaysia
Hellfire Pass, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
Australian War memorial, Hyde Park, London.
War Memorial Park, Wellington, New Zealand.
Buttes New British Cemetery, Zonnebeke Municipal War Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Ypres War Memorial, Menin Gate, Toronto Avenue and the Last Post Ceremony, Menin Gate - all in Belgium.
ABC TV will do live broadcasts of the Dawn Service in Gallipoli, Lone Pine and Villers-Bretonneux. Check TV guides for details closer to the date.
A yearly tradition that spans the generations, ANZAC Day Dawn Service is an opportunity for all Australians to remember our past and present soldiers, who gave, and still give, so much to defend our country.
For those wishing to attend a service to honour those who have fallen, served and sacrificed, below is a list of places and times of ANZAC Day services across Adelaide and South Australia (list is subject to change, see article footnote).
Adelaide 6.15am South Australian National War Memorial, North Terrace 8am Light Horse Memorial, Cnr North & East Tce
Cross of Sacrifice. After the ANZAC March
American River, KI 6.15am Memorial Park
Ardrossan 6.30am Cliff top end of First Street
11am Monument, Town Hall, corner of First and Fourth Streets
Barmera
6am Garden of Memory
Blackwood
6.30am Soldiers' Memorial Garden, corner Coromandel Parade & Main Road
Freeling
6.30am War Memorial, corner Hanson & Gray Streets
Gawler
6.15am Pioneer Park
Glenelg
6am Moseley Square, Foreshore
Glynde
7am St Andrew's Lutheran Church, 22 Avenue Road
Goolwa
6am
Gumeracha
6.30am Civic Centre
Hahndorf
6.30am Johnston Park, Main Street
Hallett Cove
ANZAC Day Youth Vigil
Friday April 24th
6.30pm - New memorial is unveiled, WW1 memorabilia display, musical performances and roving actors.
8.30pm - ANZAC Day Youth Vigil begins with a service. Youth from local services will hold vigil all night.
ANZAC Day Dawn Service
Saturday April 25th
6am – ANZAC Day Dawn Service
6.30am – Free breakfast provided by the Hallett Cove Lions Club
Morphett Vale
6am City of Onkaparinga Memorial Gardens, corner Main South & Flaxmill Roads
Mount Barker
6.30am Soldiers' Memorial, Mann Street
Mount Gambier
6.15am Vansittart Park War Memorial, Commercial Street
9.30am Boer War Memorial, Bay Road
9.40am Airmens' Service, Lake Terrace
10.30am Combined religious service, Vansittart Park War Memorial
Mount Pleasant
6.30am RSL, 156 Melrose Street
Murray Bridge
6.15am Diamond Park, corner of Swanport Rd & Bridge St
Mylor
6.30am War Memorial, corner Strathalbyn Road & Stock Road
Myrtle Bank
6.15am War Veterans' Home, Ferguson Avenue
Nairne
6.15am Memorial, Main Street
Norton Summit
6.30am War Memorial
Norwood
6.15am War Memorial, corner The Parade & Osmond Tce
Nuriootpa
6.15am Memorial, Memorial Avenue
Parndana
9am Soldier Settlers Museum and Town Hall, Cook Street
Payneham
6.15am Cross of Sacrifice, Memorial Gardens, OG Road
Penneshaw
9am War Memorial
Penola
6.30am War Memorial Park
9.30am War Memorial Park
Peterborough
6am Cenotaph, Main Street
Pinnaroo
7am Memorial
Port Adelaide
7am Naval Association, 35 Quebec Street
8am St Paul's Anglican Church
Port Augusta
6.30am Gladstone Square
6.55am West Side Memorial Gardens
11am Gladstone Square
Port Broughton
6.30am Memorial, West Tce & Bay St
11am Church service, Community Hall
Port Elliot
6.15am Monument, The Strand
Port Lincoln
6.20am Eyre Park War Memorial, cnr Lincoln & Flinders Highways
Port MacDonnell
6.15am Memorial, corner Charles Street & Sea Parade
Port Noarlunga
5.30am Memorial Gardens, The Esplanade
Port Pirie
6.30am WW1 Memorial Gates
10.30am WW1 Memorial Gates
Port Victoria
6am Main Street
Port Vincent
7am War Memorial, corner Kemp & Parson Streets
Locations and times are current, as at March 2015, and are subject to change. The list will be updated as details for each event is finalised. The closer we get to the 25th of April, the more accurate the list will become. Please check the RSL website for any updates.
Donations to the RSL ANZAC Appeal are accepted online, for those who cannot attend a Dawn Service.
The RSL of SA have also created a Virtual War Memorial. It's very interesting and educational, and you can submit your own photos and articles.
As the 6 am airport curfew passes in Adelaide on the morning of the service, I sincerely hope that the heaps of passenger jet aircraft will not repeat their uninvited fly past of the North Tce service as they did in 2014. Around six jets in all. IT WAS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE AND THOUGHTLESS. - Jim Scammell.
