Creswick Remembrance Day Services
14 November 1941
Armistice Day Service at Creswick
The president had placed a wreath from the shire on the memorial and there were other wreaths from the Creswick Branch of the R. S. S. A. I. L. A from it's Women's Auxiliary and the Bands and others on behalf of Creswick State School, its teachers, its committee and mother's club as well as private wreaths. There was not a very big attendance of adults but all the children from the Creswick School attended.
Armistice Day Service at Creswick
The president had placed a wreath from the shire on the memorial and there were other wreaths from the Creswick Branch of the R. S. S. A. I. L. A from it's Women's Auxiliary and the Bands and others on behalf of Creswick State School, its teachers, its committee and mother's club as well as private wreaths. There was not a very big attendance of adults but all the children from the Creswick School attended.
13 November 1942
Armistice Day Ceremony at Creswick
The minute’s silence for Armistice Day at 11. a.m. Wednesday was marked in Creswick by the sounding of the air-raid sirens.
The public ceremony at the memorial column was brief but impressive.
There was, perhaps, a bigger attendance of adults than last year although at that there was not a big number.
The children from Creswick State school all attended, however and the children with the adults formed three sides of a hollow square around the column.
Cr. E.A. Dooley, who represented the Shire President, drew attention to the fact that the purpose of this gathering was to commemorate the armistice which was made in 1918.
It was to be regretted by the whole of humanity, he said, that we had learned nothing from that earlier war of 1914-1918 and he hoped that we could learn enough from this war to leave the world in peace.
After the observance of the commemorative silence, wreaths were placed on the memorial on behalf of the Shire, the R.S.S.A.I.L.A., the latter’s Women’s Auxiliary, the Dads, the School, the Committee, the Mothers’ Club, and a number of private wreaths.
Cr Dooley then asked Mr W.H. Mitchell to speak.
"As Mr Dooley remarked a few minutes earlier, we gather here today for the purpose of reminding ourselves of that great event which took place in Europe just twenty-four years ago," said Mr Mitchell.
He recalled that during that struggle we were horrified that civilised people could use such a method of settling their disputes. When we heard on November 11 of 1918 that the warring nations had laid down their arms we rejoiced freely.
"And today," he said, "as we remember that rejoicing, we must remember also the sacrifice.
"Yet today we are involved in another great struggle and it is necessary and vital to this world of ours that we see to it that in the future we have some different method so that we see there will not have to be a repetition of these world embroiling wars.
"There is a call to us," he continued. "to remember the men who did their part, the men who died, the men who came back to us and the men who will be coming back.
"We should not count anything too great in the interests of peace," he added as a warning of sacrifices to be made.
Cr Dooley, after apologising for the unavoidable absence of the president thanked Mr Mitchell for his inspiring address.
Armistice Day Ceremony at Creswick
The minute’s silence for Armistice Day at 11. a.m. Wednesday was marked in Creswick by the sounding of the air-raid sirens.
The public ceremony at the memorial column was brief but impressive.
There was, perhaps, a bigger attendance of adults than last year although at that there was not a big number.
The children from Creswick State school all attended, however and the children with the adults formed three sides of a hollow square around the column.
Cr. E.A. Dooley, who represented the Shire President, drew attention to the fact that the purpose of this gathering was to commemorate the armistice which was made in 1918.
It was to be regretted by the whole of humanity, he said, that we had learned nothing from that earlier war of 1914-1918 and he hoped that we could learn enough from this war to leave the world in peace.
After the observance of the commemorative silence, wreaths were placed on the memorial on behalf of the Shire, the R.S.S.A.I.L.A., the latter’s Women’s Auxiliary, the Dads, the School, the Committee, the Mothers’ Club, and a number of private wreaths.
Cr Dooley then asked Mr W.H. Mitchell to speak.
"As Mr Dooley remarked a few minutes earlier, we gather here today for the purpose of reminding ourselves of that great event which took place in Europe just twenty-four years ago," said Mr Mitchell.
He recalled that during that struggle we were horrified that civilised people could use such a method of settling their disputes. When we heard on November 11 of 1918 that the warring nations had laid down their arms we rejoiced freely.
"And today," he said, "as we remember that rejoicing, we must remember also the sacrifice.
"Yet today we are involved in another great struggle and it is necessary and vital to this world of ours that we see to it that in the future we have some different method so that we see there will not have to be a repetition of these world embroiling wars.
"There is a call to us," he continued. "to remember the men who did their part, the men who died, the men who came back to us and the men who will be coming back.
"We should not count anything too great in the interests of peace," he added as a warning of sacrifices to be made.
Cr Dooley, after apologising for the unavoidable absence of the president thanked Mr Mitchell for his inspiring address.
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