General News
3 November, 2022
Community to mark Remembrance Day
Residents are being encouraged to take a minute’s silence to pause and reflect next week, with Remembrance Day fast approaching. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking an end...
Residents are being encouraged to take a minute’s silence to pause and reflect next week, with Remembrance Day fast approaching.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking an end to four years of bloody conflict in Europe.
Over the past century, this moment has been adopted by nations around the world as a time to remember those who served and sacrificed their lives not only in the First World War, but the wars to follow.
After a disjointed last couple of years due to the coronavirus pandemic, Maryborough’s Remembrance Day service will be back in full swing next Friday and Vietnam veteran and Maryborough RSL sub branch member Lee Turton said it was important the day was remembered.
“We were able to have a Remembrance Day service last year which was good, we had around 60 people attend and I’m hopeful there will be similar numbers this year,” he said.
“The importance of Remembrance Day is that it continues and the younger generations are taught what the remembrance involves.”
Maryborough RSL member Danny McIver and another Vietnam veteran said Remembrance Day was a time close to his heart.
“Remembrance Day gives us a chance to think of the guys we were close to that we lost, as well as all the others,” he said.
“I know for me, Remembrance Day is a time I think about all the mates I had who didn’t make it home — that’s who I always remember, the ones who left us.
“I think it’s good for us to see on Remembrance Day the involvement of young people and the interest that’s still there, it gives you hope.”
RSL members will be selling poppies and badges outside newxpress in High Street and at the Goldfields Shopping Complex today, Friday, November 4 and tomorrow, Saturday, November 5 from 9 am until 4 pm, as well as next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the same times.
The Remembrance Day service will be held at the Soldiers’ Memorial Plot in Majorca Road from 10.45 am next Friday, with residents who are unable to attend encouraged to pause and reflect on the day.