Category: Avenue of Honour Ceremonies
Anzac Day 2018 Dawn Service and Gunfire Breakfast 6am Buchan South Avenue of Honour
5.55am Gather at the Avenue. Flag at half-mast. 6.00am “STAND TO” & Welcome Guest Speaker: Bairnsdale RSL Anzac Prayer “The Ode” Last Post One Minute Silence Reveille and flag raised to masthead National Anthem 6.30am All invited to the “GUNFIRE BREAKFAST BARBEQUE” ($5 PER PERSON, children FREE) and to stay on afterwards, or come back […]
Anzac Day 2017 Tuesday 25th April, 2017 Dawn Service 6am and a later service at 10am
Dawn Service & Gunfire Breakfast (BBQ) 5.45am Gather at the Avenue. Flag at half-mast. 6.00 “STAND TO” & Welcome 6.05 “For King And Country” 6.10 Guest Speaker – 6.20 Song For Grace 6.25 “The Ode” Last Post One Minute Silence Reveille National Anthem 6.30 All invited to the “GUNFIRE BREAKFAST BARBEQUE” ($5 PER PERSON, […]
Buchan South Avenue of Honour AGM Tuesday 14th February 2017 at 6.30 pm
Remembrance Day Friday 11th November 2016
PROGRAM 10.15 Gather at the Buchan South Avenue of Honour. Flag at half-mast. 10.25 Welcome by Zillah Norfolk 10.30 Guest Speaker 10.30 Song 10.40 Guest Speaker – Dorothy Chiron ‘A Letter from a Soldier’ 10.45 Buchan Primary School 10.50 Placing of wreaths. 10.55 ‘The Ode’ The last Post One Minute Silence […]
Anzac Day Services 6am Dawn Service and 10 am later service 2016
Remembrance Day 2015
Paul Hunters… Poem of Remembrance I am not a badge of honour, I am not a racist smear, I am not a fashion statement, To be worn but once a year, I am not glorification Of conflict or of war. I am not a paper ornament A token, I am more. I am a loving […]
Anzac Day 2015
Saturday 25th April 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli 5.45 am Dawn Service 6.30 am GUNFIRE BREAKFAST BBQ ($5 PER PERSON, CHILDREN FREE) 10.00 am Service PLEASE BRING ALONG MORNING TEA TO SHARE. Lest We Forget Photos Geoff Stanton Photography www.facebook.com/GeoffStantonPhotography ] Lee Kernaghan – “Spirit of […]
Anzac Day 2014
The Dawn Service was held at 6am with the temperature at 6 degrees Celsius, the coldest night so far this year. Clive Norfolk called the “Stand To” and Jeff Mc Cole read The Ode. East Gippsland Shire Council Deputy Mayor Peter Neal was our guest speaker who recounted the story of the origin of The […]
Anzac Day 2013
Dawn Service 0545 – Gather at the Avenue -Old RSL flag at half mast 0600 – “Stand-To” and brief welcome by Clive Norfolk 0605 – Guest Speaker – Kevin Kneebone 0615 – Hymn – Abide With Me 0620 – Prayer – Speaker – Cassandra White, Rotary Award Student 0625 – The Ode, Last Post, 1 […]
Remembrance Day 2012
Anzac Day 2012
Our wettest year to date. David from the roadhouse read the ode at the dawn service. Nigel Hodge spoke about the days on the land during WW2 I started school about the time when the war started and went permanently until 1940. We were lucky to have teachers right through the war years even though […]
Anzac Day 2011
Dawn Service 0545 – Gather at the Avenue -Old RSL flag at half mast 0600 – “Stand-To” and brief welcome by Clive Norfolk 0605 – Guest Speaker – Kevin Kneebone 0615 – Hymn – Abide With Me 0620 – Prayer – Speaker – Cassandra White, Rotary Award Student 0625 – The Ode, Last Post, 1 min […]
Anzac Day 2010
Historic Photos from the Buchan South School. The site of the Buchan South Avenue of Honour
Remembrance Day 2009
Anzac Day 2009
PROGRAMME – ZILLAH’S NOTES 10.15 Flag at half mast. 10.30 Those who wish to, gather at the Aleppo Pine and walk back to the gates, to the strains of VERA LYNN. Zillah Norfolk welcomes all present. Welcome everyone. Welcome to Anzac Day at Buchan South. Since Remembrance Day last year, when there was one memorial […]
Remembrance Day 2008
Anzac Day 2008
Read Fiona”s Speech
Rededication Day 11th November 2007
Planting of the Aleppo Pine 2006
On Saturday the 23rd of September the old Buchan RSL flag flew proudly from the oak trees of the Buchan South Avenue of Honour as a group of past and present locals gathered to witness the planting of an Aleppo Pine tree. The tree was planted by Zillah Roach with the help of her brother […]