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Creswick Remembrance Day Services


11 November 1966

REMEMBRANCE DAY TODAY-AT 11am.-Today is "remembrance day."  A short service with the usual two-minute silence at 11am. will be held at the cenotaph in Albert St. Creswick.  The local school children will attend.

The laying of the wreaths will conclude the service.

Poppies may be worn, they can be procured at various shops and hotels in the street or from school children and RSL members.

The Creswick RSL smoke night will commence at 8pm.-varied entertainers have been procured.  RSL headquarters will be represented by the Country Vice-president, Mr. R. Hicks.


18 November 1966

REMEMBRANCE DAY AT CRESWICK-Placing a wreath on the war memorial column at Creswick last Friday, Remembrance Day, the Shire President, Cr. J. F. Sewell, spoke of the honour due to the glorious dead, men and women, who served in the 1914 and 1939 wars, in Korea and Malaya, and now in Vietnam, fighting to preserve that freedom which is our way of living.

If the brave men and women who served could give us a message today it would be, "Only those deserve freedom who are prepared to defend it."

Mr. F. James read the Ode to the Fallen.

Other wreaths were place for St. Augustine's school, Creswick State School, Red Cross, RSL, RSL Auxiliary and private wreaths.

1967

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1968

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14 November 1969

THEY REMEMBERED AT THE 11TH HOUR-At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month on Tuesday, a small group gathered in remembrance at the Creswick was memorial.

There were returned servicemen, RSL Auxiliary and Red Cross folk, children from Creswick and St. Augustine's schools and a few others.

The Shire President, Cr. R. G. Bradshaw, placed a wreath from the citizens of the shire, followed by RSL and other wreaths, in memory of men and women who lost their lives in the two world wars, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam.

"I think that if they whom we commemorate here today could give us a message, it would be only those deserve freedom who are prepared to defend it," said Cr. Bradshaw.

The two minutes silence was marked by sounding the fire siren.

Cr. Bradshaw also placed a wreath on Kingston war memorial.

1970

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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