Upper Yarra
Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
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Seville residents reflect.
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Cadets lead a march through Warburton.
Lest we forget By Callum Ludwig and Tanya Steele Annual Anzac Day Services had a wonderful turnout across the region this year, as Healesville, Yarra Glen, Seville, Wandin, Warburton and Millgrove all hosted services and marches with the community. Healesville RSL raised the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag for the first time and residents of Seville attended their second-ever Dawn service with a newly lit-up memorial. Mt Evelyn RSL Member Heidi Ramsay was a guest speaker in Wandin and said Anzac Day
reminds her that everybody still cares about people who have served. “I moved out here five years ago, so to see that everybody is committed to turning out early in the morning, to be able to show their respect, it means a lot,” she said. Ms Ramsay served in the British Army for 23 years Peter Haylock and Phil Kearsley had the good fortune to bump into each other at Yarra Glen’s Anzac Day service and had a reunion over 60 years in the making.
Both were soldiers in the same intake and training at an Enoggera (Gallipoli) army barracks in Queensland in 1962. “We were in the same intake and the same year and we both turned up at Yarra Glen,” Phil said. In Warburton, cadets lead the march, followed by RSL sub-branch members, Warburton and Millwarra Primary School staff and students and local emergency services volunteers. Lieutenant Peter Dalglish was a speaker at the service following the march and said by re-
membering was important. “Hopefully, we don’t repeat the heartache and misery of war, we are destined to repeat the mistakes if we don’t remember history,” he said. At Yarra Glen RSL sub-branch Michael Watkins read “Mates” a poem by D. Hunter a WWII Veteran which contemplates friendship over time and the importance of Anzac Day. “An’ so to all that ask me why We keep these special dates, Like “Anzac Day”… I answer: “WHY??! – We’re thinking of our MATES.”
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