Remembrance Day - Fall In Front and Centre

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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 and in the morning
We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

Grandfather - mother's side: Australian Army Gallipoli and France.
Grandfather - father's side: United States Navy
Uncle - mother's side WWII Australian Army Africa and New Guinea
Uncle - mother's side WWII Royal Australian Air Force South West Pacific
Uncle - mother's side Australian Army Korea
Father - United States Army WWII South West Pacific and Leyte Gulf
Father in Law - WWII Royal Navy
Me - Royal Australian Navy troop transport Vietnam

All posts this thread respectfully acknowledged.

We Will Remember Them.

Lest We Forget

[Scorpygirl]

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 and in the morning
We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

We will remember them!!! Seeing the old diggers at the memorial ceremony today on the News was very moving indeed.

Un/fortunately my immediate whanau were declared medically unfit or part of the essentials efforts back home so none of them served.

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Lest we forget.

Grandfather (Fathers side) gassed at Ypres. Survived into the '60s though.

[Dai]

Paternal grandfather the Somme WW1

Maternal Grandfather, Gallipoli WW1

Lots of uncles, WW2

father, Malaya, Borneo and Vietnam (1968)

myself NZ Artillery and R Sqn (the Regiment), no active service.

[Bend-it]

Grandfather, Straits Chinese Volunteer Corps in Singapore WWII, died 24 Oct 1979.

[DougB]

Yesterday I took part in the "Armistice in Cambridge" The only NZ town to have a two day commemoration.
There was on Saturday:-
Re-inactments of a Vietnam war battle

Victory dance

Heliclopter rides
Etc

On Sunday:-
Street parade off military vechiles and troops etc (Two nicely restored Army Indian Motorbikes were there)

March into town by military personel. Led by bands.

Armistice in Cambridge service where all the flags of the
allies were lowerered, wreaths laid and their national anthems played by the Cambridge Band as the flags were raised.

The usual Anzac day type service

Greetings from the Mayor of Le Quesnoy in France where NZ troops recaptuted the town in the closing days of World war one were read. This town still remembers with gratitude the actions of the NZ's on that day and they holds a ceremony and service every year to commerate the action.

The Cambridge Town Hall bell tolls eleven times at the eleventh minute of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

After the service the crowd was entertained by The Boogie Woogie Bugle Girls and the band.

A second world war battle re-inactment.

Flying display by RNZAF Harvards

Marching Girls

Display by Air Force Blue parachute display team.

NZ Navy Band

Re-enactment of the LeQuesnoy battle.

All this was supported by displays of military vehicles
bren gun carriers artillery pieces and I saw a Corgi paratroopers motor scooter being ridden about.

This festival is repeated every year and is attended by many hundreds of locals and out of towners and is strongly supported by the NZ military .

The bottom of the programme reads

"Join us to honour the past, celebrate the present and rejoice in the future"

I will post a reminder of it next November so you can join us..

[Toaster]

My Grandfather served as an officer in WWII with the RNZAF as a bomber navigator. He is still going strong and is a man I deeply respect. Selfless, staunch and a good kiwi bloke, husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather.

For decades his medals stayed in the very paper bag he was given them in. I was able to enjoy a parade with him some years ago while I served with the navy/navy reserve.

When I look at teens growing up today, I know they just don't make 'em/raise 'em like they used to.

Here's to all the good men and women who have given much and lost much, so we could have so much.

[Blackbird]

Grandfather, William Hyde Worsley O'Dell, 17th Lancers, WW1

Father, Gerard Leonard James, Royal Air Force, post-WW2, later Royal Aeronautical Establishment

Requiescat in pace

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Yesterday I took part in the "Armistice in Cambridge" The only NZ town to have a two day commemoration.

I will post a reminder of it next November so you can join us..

Please do and would look forward to getting up there. Could be a good event for ex-service personnel [and off-spring] to group ride....