Mount Evelyn
Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
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Anthony McAleer, Margaret Tull, Adam Gatherum and Marion Stott place the coloured wreaths of remembrance at Mooroolbark. 403746
Pictures: MIKAYLA VAN LOON
Dawn to dusk From the early dawn to the afternoon, thousands of people from across the Yarra Ranges paid their respects to Australia’s fallen, veterans and current serving members on Anzac Day. The cenotaph in Mount Evelyn was surrounded by a crowd estimated between 2500 and 3000 people at dawn, with many continuing the day on at the RSL sub-branch for breakfast, to commemorate, tell stories and laugh. Mount Evelyn RSL president Matt Crymble said during the service “it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the East Timor campaign. “Many of our troops served in both war and peacetime operations in this country over 14 years, only leaving East Timor in 2013,” he said. Lilydale’s dawn service was yet again spectacular with people from all over flocking to Main Street to hear the sombre sound of the
Last Post, to listen to school choirs and to learn of war veterans as the sun came up. By midday a crowd had again gathered in Mooroolbark’s Hookey Park for a touching service reflecting on the D-Day landing in Normandy. This was expressed through the story of a local man and community member, the late Bob Gatherum, who’s grandson Adam shared a snippet of the diary notes he kept over the seven years he served in World War II. Adam said his grandfather was “proud to be a Normandy veteran” and never held any malice. “They also made me more conscious of and thankful for the freedom we enjoy here in our most fortunate land’,“ Adam read from his grandfather’s notes. To see photos from the services and to read more, turn to pages 9, 10 and 12
As the Mount Evelyn dawn service finished, the crowd turned their attention to the formation of the march to the RSL. 403636
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