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DEDICATION
The Creswick-Smeaton RSL website is dedicated to all those who have served in all conflicts and to those who made the supreme sacrifice to King, Queen and Country.

The Creswick-Smeaton RSL would like to thank the sponsors of this website.
​Our sponsors can be found at  "Contact Us"

Upcoming Events
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Click on wording in Light Brown, will take you to that page. 

2025 ANZAC Day Appeal

​The Creswick-Smeaton RSL ANZAC Day Appeal is starting this Monday 14th April and will continue until Thursday 24th April.

Times: Mondays to Thursdays 9:30am to 4:30pm
Saturday - 9:30am to 1:00pm
There will be no sales on Good Friday

Location: In front of Creswick IGA

Monies raised from the appeal goes to support the Veterans and their families.

​We will also be conducting a raffle on ANZAC Day at the RSL Hall after the service. $1 per ticket with two prizes . First winner has first choice of either the Royal Australian Navy bear or the Sands of Gallipoli plaque.

ANZAC Day Services
- 25th April

Wreaths can be ordered up to the 19th April via [email protected] for $40.
 
Creswick
5:40am – Dawn Service - assemble at the Cenotaph (Cnr. Albert and Raglan St.)for a 5:50am start followed by the Gunfire Breakfast in the Senior Citizens Centre. (Water St. next to the Town Hall)
 
9:30am - Service at the Soldiers Graves at the Creswick Cemetery, 141 Clunes Road, Creswick.
 
10:00am - Service at the Memorial Stones, RSL Hall, 60 Albert St.
 
10:15am - Anyone wishing to take part in the March to assemble at the Splash Park (Bottom of Albert St).
 
10:30am - March commences.
 
Following the March -
ANZAC Day Service - Creswick Cenotaph (Cnr. Albert and Raglan St.)
 
Incorporating the "60th Anniversary of the Creswick-Smeaton RSL Field of Crosses"
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12:30pm – 2UP at the front of the RSL Hall.
 
Kingston
Kingston Friends of the Avenue Anzac Day service and wreath laying at Cenotaph
Time: 9.00am
Location: Corner Victoria Road and Kingston Road, Kingston (Cenotaph)

RSL Meetings - 2025
Last Wednesday of the month
RSL Hall, 60 Albert Street
1300


29th January
26th February
26th March
30th April
28th May
25th June
30th July
27th August
24th September
29th October
26th November
December ​- Christmas Lunch
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“Reflections – The Shire & Borough of Creswick and the Great War”
​The book consists of the stories of the 979 men and women, who were born in the Shire & Borough of Creswick and enlisted in The Great War.
​For orders, click on the link above.

21st Anniversary Service
Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

Sunday 9th February 2025, 11:30am.
Ballarat Botanical Gardens

1A Carlton St, Lake Wendouree

REMEMBRANCE DAY 2024
Thank-you to the Hepburn Shire gardeners - Creswick Depot, for the planting of our annual Flanders Poppies which are well on their way.
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Remembrance Service
Fallen Soldiers Memorial
Creswick Cenotaph, Cnr Albert & Raglan St
Monday 11th November at 10:40am

 D-Day80 - 6 June 2024
Hepburn Shire Town crier and RSL member Philip Greenbank took part in the world wide      D-Day80 event at the Creswick Cenotaph
ANZAC DAY 2024
CRESWICK

Dawn Service, followed by the Gunfire Breakfast at Senior Citizens Rooms

Service at the Soldiers Grave, Creswick Cemetery.

Service at the Memorial Stones, RSL Hall .

ANZAC Day March

ANZAC Day Service

Ex-POW Memorial Service
Sunday 11th February 2024, 11AM
Cnr Wendouree Parade and Carlton Street, Lake Wendouree

Military Uniform displays

Remembrance Poppies - What do the colours stand for.

New Stories added:
Murdoch McLean

Field of Crosses Memorial Gardens Project

Creswick Fire Brigade Honour Board
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Ode of Remembrance

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