A great memorial.
Roll of Honour name projections | Australian War Memorial
100 years since the start of WW1.
(WW1 timeline of AUSTRALIAs involvement)
Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918 | Australian War Memorial
The Roll of Honour.
Search the Roll of Honour | Australian War Memorial
But let us not forget this is the year we finished the current conflict in Afghanistan, physically at least, I fear some will be fighting it within themselves for years to come.
Australian Service personnel Killed in Afghanistan - Lest We Forget
• Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird MG, 2nd Commando Regiment, was killed by small arms fire during an engagement with insurgents on 22 June 2013.
**Corporal BAIRD was Posthumously awarded a VC in 2014 for his actions leading up to his death**
• Lance Corporal Todd John Chidgey, 2nd Commando Regiment, was killed by "Non-hostile - small arms fire" at Kabul on 7-01-2014.
96 years ago the guns fell silent and the terrible war of attrition ended.
LEST WE FORGET
For the fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
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.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables at home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Laurence Binyon (1869–1943)
Again, make sure you thank a veteran or current member of our Defence Forces for their service, To that end,
TO ALL THOSE PRESENT AND PAST MEMBERS OF THE DEFENCE SERVICES, THANKYOU TO YOU AND TO YOUR FAMILIES FOR YOUR SERVICE.