Please join us at 9.00am on Thursday 25 April for our local Anzac Day Ceremony at the Nedlands War Memorial, on the corner of Birdwood Pde & Waratah Ave, Dalkeith.
This ceremony is being hosted in partnership with the Nedlands Returned Services League.
All community members are invited to lay wreaths during this ceremony.
Street parking is available in surrounding streets.
There will be a local road closure on Thursday 25 April 2024 from 6.30am-11.00am on Birdwood Parade between Gallop Rd & Carroll St, and Waratah Ave between Birdwood Pde & Hobbs Ave for the ceremony.
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Anzac Day is our national day of commemoration, marking the 1915 Gallipoli landing during World War 1. This expedition was the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The purpose was to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied navies. The ultimate objective was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany. This eight-month campaign resulted in significant Australian casualties, with around 8,700 soldiers losing their lives.
The brave men who served on the Gallipoli Peninsula forged a powerful and enduring legacy, introducing the term Anzac into our language and embodying the spirit of the Anzacs, characterised by values of mateship and sacrifice.
Today, Anzac Day honours all Australians who have served and made the ultimate sacrifice in times of peace and war. Anzac Day brings together current and former service men and women, their families and the wider community in a tribute to all those who have fought for our freedom and security.
It is a day where all Australians reflect and remember those who have served and died in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.
Lest we forget.
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Ode of Remembrance
They shall grow not old
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
The Ode of Remembrance comes from the poem For the Fallen by English poet and writer, Laurence Binyon (1869-1943).
