Dawn Service 2020 Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Smittengranny on 24-Apr-20. Waypoint GA14855

Dawn Service 2024

Lest We Forget

James0116

During covid lockdown, residents in the resort where we live, still we able to have our own Dawn Service. We made the most of what we had, and still had a great reception of residents.

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We remembered both my grandfather and great grandfather with an 'ANZAC At Home' driveway service in 2020. I made candle holders out of milk bottles to protect the flames, I included their photos, miniature medals, knitted poppies, and gifts sent home from Egypt

great cache

found at Colonel Light Gardens war memorial on ANZAC Day 2023

James0116

Well I was a day early sadly.

Was hoping to attend the dawn service in Darwin.

So had to run a solo even at Bark Hut, My Bundey just near the Mary River.

120km from Darwin.

So I was up at 5:30am and pulled out the camp chair.

Sat and tuned into ABC radio listening to the Melbourne Service.

Nice and warm here at this hour and enjoyed evry minute.

TFTL

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Please see the attached photo taken on ANZAC day at Dawn taken at my house. The sound of the service at the RSL club at the bottom of the road filled the valley.

I didn't take a selfie, but I did take a photo of my candle and rosemary at the end of my driveway. I only saw 2 other households join in. My next door neighbour drove somewhere over the dawn service period. I'm guessing she was spending it with a family member. I feel its difficult to ask at the moment in case she thinks I'm judging her about the stay home rules. Maybe next year.

Damp and very dark morning. Did hear one bugle in the distance and saw a couple of other lights up the street.

Thanks for the cache.

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Dawn here (Armadale WA) was cold and still raining, and later in the day we stood outside listening to our own local piper playing in 4 different locations around our retirement park. This time the rain had stopped and we stood across the road blocking it from traffic while the piper played. No photos were taken, though a video was taken - see below.

https://www.facebook.com/frances.morgan.798/videos/pcb.699507044215526/3385990574779171/?type=3&ifg=1&__tn__=HH-R&eid=ARC6mMOndz-KXYLYmvC5mKV_VBL5HZPdkowuTTzkn45lSFgn03m8eutuMUO6we9CErieIiGuy-XCpiDn

Dark but the rain had stopped for us so we didn't get wet.

Thanks for the cache.

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A very different Anzac this year, but sill we honour them.
And the last post was played by a neighbour to a very quiet street.
Reminds me of a similar very special Anzac in the Vic High Country many years ago,
where we gathered at 6am in -10 deg C around a camp fire listening to the last post.
Thanks for the cache Smittengranny,
Roostaman

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Dawn Service was very quiet at the end of our driveway. Since we live out of town with no close neighbours it was just me, the rising sun and my little red flower substituting for a poppy.
A very special way for a locked down Australia to commemorate ANZAC Day. TFTL Smittengranny.

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It was a cool foggy morning in Gungahlin this morning. We set up at the mailbox and tuned the iPad into national service being broadcast from the Australian War Memorial just as it was starting. Not a another soul on our street, which was a bit of a shame. It was quite eerie in the pre dawn light, ours was a silent tribute, thankful for the opportunity to pay our pay our respects and to remember those family members who have served and those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

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Not long after the service finished, we saw this appear in the sky. A lovely conclusion to a different kind of dawn service, attended in my pjs and dressing gown.

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Lest we forget
Up at dawn to listen to the dawn service provided for Penrith RSL via Vintage FM.

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When I first read about #lightupthedawn I knew I wanted to do this and signed up to the RSLQld mailing list for this project. Attending Anzac Day has been part of my being since I was a kid, first as a Girl Guide (although probably earlier than that since I remember watching a parade), then as an adult leader, and now that I am out of the movement as a private individual. I have been to the Currumbin Dawn Service at Elephant Rock many times, until it really got too big. 20,000 was the figure I heard for last year. Subsequently we've attended the Tweed Heads Coolangatta Service, and last year, the Murwillumbah Citizen's service. There is just 'something' about those smaller intimate services.

I felt disappointed that services were cancelled this year, although with the age of our vets, event the Vietnam vets are in that vunerable age group. The local RSL proclaimed that it was the first time in 100years that the service had been cancelled, implying that it had been cancelled in 1919. Because the flu epidemic in 1919 is a particular area of interest I hit the books, or should that be Trove. The Tweed Heads morning service was cancelled - due to poor whether but the evening service went ahead as it was going to be indoors anyway. So looking at the Australian wide situation our PMs speech at the service at the Australian War Memorial was wrong. However, other services may have been cancelled, particular down in Sydney/Melbourne which were hotspots at the time - the Tweed at the time was clear of the virus.

So... last night I cutdown a milk carton, brought home a sandwich bag of sand from the banks of Currumbin Creek and made my own candle holder. We joined, Number 5 and 7 in the street standing on the footpath and could see the residents of the house opposite the end of our cul de sac, listening to the Last Post. Reville, and the National Anthem from the Australian War Memorial. It was interesting listening to the 'dawn chorus' coming over the live stream from Canberra, and our own local chorus. Many of the birds such as the maggies are the same.

With the service over, I photographed Samboo and Max, our two household companions.

It was quiet and it was lovely, but I look forward to a world where I can go to a community celebration again. Co-ordinates for the sport field down the road.

Out the front of my place in Darwin. Sadly I was the only one in the street but still felt honoured to stand there

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Since I had published a ANZAC Day 2020 Virtual Event GA14632, I made sure I was up early for Dawn.
I am so glad I did. Joined the neighbours in our driveways with candles, and I had my great Uncles bugle to sit with my candle.
A beautiful sunrise, and Kookaburras calling, followed by the Last Post played by someone in a nearby street, made this an ANZAC Day memory I wont forget. TFTC

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I was up at 6 am and was surprised to hear the Last Post being played where we live as on a rural block with the house set back 150 m from a highway and no close neighbours. It was very moving, along with the distant neighbour's roosters crowing at the same time. Lest We Forget. Sorry no photo as pitch black. Lest We Forget.TFTL

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Our family normally takes part in the overnight vigil at Blackwood but this year it was from the location of our driveway with many others in the street. Even a virtual attendance from our son in Chicago.

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Today was always going to be a very different ANZAC Day for our family.

For the last five years I have attended a Dawn Service and an ANZAC Day March with one of my sons who played in a local Brass Band. Last September he enlisted in the Army and we looked forward to seeing him march in an ADF uniform. Unfortunately due to COVID-19 he is not marching and we are not able to visit him.

At 5:30am this morning I stood at the end of my driveway and was joined at 5:55 by my husband and my other son. We stood together and alone to honour our servicemen, past and present.

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Up at just before Dawn. No one else in the caravan park.
In our travels we have attened a Dawn service in many out of way places,
Including Adelaide River Cemetery NT
Our little service was very simple.
Recited the ODE.
Played the LAST POST & Lowered our Flag to Half Mast.
Minute silence
Played Reveille
National Anthem
Read out the ANZAC Requiem

Thanks Smittengranny

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In these strange times, we had a different kind of ANZAC Service in our driveway this morning.
Beautiful light shone from the candles on the driveway, glowing on the driveway after the morning rains, as the morning sunlight light started to shine in on the new day dawning.
We are later for our Anzac Service coming across from Western Australia

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Mrs Shifter stood at the end of her driveway, as did all the houses surrounding her. She had a radio but when neigbours came out one had their radio turned up so the locals could hear. It was very moving to hear the Last Post drifting across the valley from other residents also.
Photos are of the candles Mrs Shifter had at the end of the driveway, Mrs Shifter at the end of the service and one from a number of years ago of Mrs Shifter marching in Gosford with her Girl Guide unit.

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Lest we forget

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Pitch dark at the end of our driveway. No sign of any sunrise yet. There were five of us and one neighbour out at 6. Last Post was played. Here’s a photo of of my slippered foot or maybe it’s an ultrasound

We set ourselves up at the front gate after watching part of the Dawn Service in Canberra on TV. Unfortunately we were the only ones in the street but had our own little service...played The Last Post, said The Ode, had 2 minutes silence and then played The Rouse.
A beautiful sky developed as dawn came.
Many thanks for a beautiful locationless cache Smittengranny

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LEST WE FORGET

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Thanks you Smittengranny for the thought to place this on such an important day in our calander. Watched the service from the War Memorial and then had our own little service in our driveway.See images.
"Less we forget." Clan Phoenix.

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A very different ANZAC day service. I was standing out the front of my house with the radio on live streaming the Canberra service. We will remember them, lest we forget! Photo attached. TFTLC


For the Fallen - BY LAURENCE BINYON
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 of 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.

5.55am and I stood at the end of my driveway....without another person in sight. Bit disappointing, but so be it. 6.05am and I then headed inside to catch the end of the National Service from the AWM Canberra and then the Melbourne service. The Adelaide service is starting as I type.

ANZAC Day is our day....Lest We Forget.

Thanks for the chance to remember here Smittengranny.

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We went to the front of our property and stood around a fire and listened to the service from The War Memorial in Canberra. We saw several other people out on the roadway. We sat in camp chairs around the fire. We normally go to the Dawn Service at Launceston or Longford but our service was a lot warmer than I remember any of the others. Lest we forget.

S27° 47.107' E153° 5.997 We celebrated in our village with lots of people participating

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Up early but no light from over the horizon - that will be another hour away here in Tassie. There were quite a few neighbours in the street standing at the end of their drive ways. The most notable aspect was our immediate neighbour played the Last Post from his font lawn, a role he often has at the Ulverstone Dawn Service. Two photos have been added of this mornings activities: Mrs y'stassie at the end of our driveway with a candle; and our neighbour, in his Ulverstone Band uniform, playing the Last Post (a grainy photo as flash did not work over that distance, given the lockdown we are currently experiencing). Thanks Smittengranny

We drove down to our front gate in very pensive, sombre moods this morning. After setting up, we listened to the ABC broadcast, joinimg in a minute's silence. It was a beautiful morning and now we are waiting for the sun to peek up over the mountain while we down a traditional port.
"Age shall not weary them".

We were up at dawn to share the memory.

Standing at the end of the Driveway from 0555 on the 25th April 2020. Neighbours were also standing at the end of their driveway. This is a day to remember
and it is very different due to COVID19. Next year will have to drive into Bargara Central for the Dawn Service. TFTL SMITTENGRANNY.

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We gathered this morning at our front gate, where Muggle Hubby raised the flag to half mast, listened to the service and shared a moment silence in honour of our fallen.
It was amazing to see how many others in our street did the same thing.
The spirit of the ANZACs was felt this morning.

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Remember to get up early.