IT is now over 100 years since the First World War ended yet the significance of that occasion is still solemnised each year on November 11 at cenotaphs across the country in memory of the many lives lost in the cause and in the subsequent wars since.
Like many of us, both of my grandfathers served with the Australian Infantry Forces in the Middle East as part of the ANZAC contingent. My father’s uncle died in Palestine and is buried at the military cemetery in Alexandria in Egypt.
This year, due to COVID-19, regulations permit only 10 people to gather at ceremonies such as this and so the wreath laying ceremony will be conducted by committee members of the Shepparton RSL at the Shepparton and Mooroopna Cenotaphs at 11.00am on Wednesday, November 11.
Members of the public who would like a wreath laid are asked to have it available before 10.30am on the morning or they may do so after the ceremony has concluded.
Lest We Forget
