ANZAC & Veteran Remembrance
Many anniversaries are recognised by veterans' groups, ex-service organisations, military formations, unit associations, families & individuals across Australia. From ANZAC Day to Remembrance Day & all occasions in between, Australians across this nation pay our respects year-round to remember these important episodes in Australia's past to honor our fallen & learn from our history.
Accordingly, flags play an important role in our remembrance, each Flag of Australia being a very meaningful symbol of commemoration. We lower these flags to half-mast at the start of commemorative services & ceremonies as a sign of remembrance & mourning.
“They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady & aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.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 & in the morning
We will remember them.”
The Ode of Remembrance (‘The Ode’), the 3rd & 4th stanzas of Laurence Binyon’s poem For the Fallen (c.1914), has been read at commemorative services in Australia since 1921 — expressing the nation’s collective feelings of respect & loss for the service people who gave their lives during World War I, & in all conflicts since.
National commemorative service marking the 75th anniversary of Australian deaths at Hellfire Pass & the completion of the Burma-Thailand Railway.
c.16 Oct 2018 at the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat.
Image Link: Department of Veterans’ Affairs
ANZAC & Veteran Remembrance
Many anniversaries are recognised by veterans' groups, ex-service organisations, military formations, unit associations, families & individuals across Australia. From ANZAC Day to Remembrance Day & all occasions in between, Australians across this nation pay our respects year-round to remember these important episodes in Australia's past to honor our fallen & learn from our history.
Accordingly, flags play an important role in our remembrance, each Flag of Australia being a very meaningful symbol of commemoration. We lower these flags to half-mast at the start of commemorative services & ceremonies as a sign of remembrance & mourning.
National commemorative service marking the 75th anniversary of Australian deaths at Hellfire Pass & on the completion of the Burma-Thailand Railway. c.16 Oct 2018 at the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat.
Image Link: Department of Veterans’ Affairs
“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 & in the morning
We will remember them.”
The Ode of Remembrance (‘The Ode’), the 3rd & 4th stanzas of Laurence Binyon’s poem For the Fallen (c.1914), 4th stanza displayed above, has been read at commemorative services in Australia since 1921 — expressing the nation’s collective feelings of respect & loss for the service people who gave their lives during World War I, & in all conflicts since.