General News
3 May, 2025
Dawn of remembrance: Lest we forget
On Anzac Day, Dimboola RSL Sub-branch president Charles Rees delivered the following address:
Good morning, Dimboola, on the 109th Anzac Day to commemorate the landing at Gallipoli, known as Anzac Cover, Turkey, 110 years ago.
Gallipoli was the first encounter of battle in World War I, also referred to the Great European War.
We gather again to honour all Australian servicemen and women who gave their lives in service for the cause – right justice and humanity in all wars and peace-keeping.
Those who made the supreme sacrifice: for them, their duty is done.
They gave their lives today so we could have our tomorrow.
At the end of WWI King George V declared that a 1914–18 scroll and plaque be presented to the next-of-kin of sailors, soldiers and nurses who died serving in the Royal Australia Navy or Australian Imperial Force (AIF), including AANS.
The scroll read:
"To whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who, at the call of King and country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger and finally passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice. Giving their own lives that others might live in freedom. Let those who come after to see it that their name be not forgotten."
These words apply equally to all those people whp forfeited their lives for 'the cause' in all theatres of war since WWI.
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Lest we forget.