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Your guide to Anzac Day services
Port Macquarie: Dawn - Ex-servicemen and women or their representatives to assemble at the Port Macquarie War Memorial for a 5.30am commemoration.
Main service - Marchers to assemble at southern end of Horton Street at 9.30am. March down Horton Street from 10am to the War Memorial for a 10.30am service.
Luncheon - For tickets holders only at Panthers Port Macquarie at 11.45am.
Alexandra Hawes, a Year 11 student from St Columba Anglican School has been asked to speak by the Port Macquarie RSL Sub-Branch at the 10.30am service. An accomplished English student with a keen interest in Australian history, Alexandra will be talking about how the Anzac Spirit is very much alive today. She will be highlighting the centenary of the Sinai-Palestine campaign and the war in Afghanistan.
Wauchope: Dawn - Assemble at the RSL at 5am to march at 5.30am to the Cenotaph at the clock tower for 5.45am service.
Main service - Assemble at 10.15am, march from the RSL at 10.30am to the Cenotaph for a 11am service.
Lake Cathie: Morning service at 11am at Lake Cathie Bowling and Recreation Club.
Laurieton: Dawn – at the Cenotaph, Laurie Park, 5.30am.
Main service: Assemble at Laurieton United Services Club at 10.20am for the march at 10.30am to the Cenotaph at Laurie Park for 11am service.
Comboyne: Assemble at the Comboyne Ex-servicemen’s and Citizen’s Club from 10.30am. The march to the Cenotaph starts at 11am.
Kendall: Dawn - 5.30am at the Memorial Park.
Morning - March from general store to the park for a 10am service.
Ron reflects on Anzac tradition
On Tuesday – Anzac Day – Ron Walesby will shed a few tears. It’s his tradition.
As one of Port Macquarie’s oldest surviving World War II veterans, Ron says Anzac Day brings home the reality of war, the loss of close friends and a strengthening view that we should take more pride in being Australian.
Story of two soldiers
A Vietnam vet from Beechwood, who was promised a beer with a very special US comrade, finally received the news he was waiting for.
Comboyne remembers Jack Allan
Jack Allan’s diary talked of the grim conditions in the trenches, the constant shell barrages, stretcher bearing and working to the point of exhaustion. And Jack recorded the horror of World War One.