Lodges often use the meeting around ANZAC Day to remember the sacrifice and history of people who fought in Australian Armed Forces. Many will have special nights to commemorate the ANZAC Tradition.
Devotion does this on the meeting closest to ANZAC Day when the lodge is addressed on a related topic.
By clicking the links to the subpages below can access two such talks.
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, and is commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. It now more broadly commemorates all those who died and served in military operations for the country. Anzac Day is also observed in the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tonga.
For more information see;
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ANZAC Day
Subpages (9):
ANZAC Day 2008 - The First Anzacs
ANZAC Day 2009 - A Happier ANZAC Story; Beersheba
ANZAC Day 2010 - Things I should have asked my Grandfather
ANZAC Day 2011 - Gallipoli Campaign in the Dardanelles
ANZAC Day 2012 - Freemasons & the Shrine of Remembrance
ANZAC Day 2013 - Australian War Memorial Canberra
ANZAC Day 2015 - 100th Anniversary
ANZAC Day 2016 – Corporal Cameron Baird VC MG (1981-2013)
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