Creswick Remembrance Day Services
12 November 1971
REMEMBRANCE DAY COMMEMORATION – A little pool of silence grew around the remembering gathering at the war memorial at Creswick yesterday at 11 a.m.
As this group observing Remembrance Day heard the fire siren go to start the silent tribute, a motor car went along the street, some moving cars stopped at the kerbs.
And then there was a strange quiet – hardly a thing moved within earshot until the tribute was closed by RSL president Mr. K. F. Barrell reciting the Ode to the Fallen.
The unusual quiet had given dignity to the ceremony.
Creswick State school children, marching across in a body to participate, added greatly to the impressiveness by their presence.
Creswick Shire President, Cr. W. A. McKay laid a wreath there (and another at the memorial at Kingston, earlier) in tribute from the people of the shire.
Cr. McKay briefly addressed the gathering at Creswick, recalling that the ceremony honoured the glorious dead of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars and those who in Korea, Malaya and Vietnam also gave their lives to preserve our freedom. “We remember, too, those who still suffer,” said Cr. McKay.
Other wreaths were placed by representatives of RSL, Red Cross and the school children present.
REMEMBRANCE DAY COMMEMORATION – A little pool of silence grew around the remembering gathering at the war memorial at Creswick yesterday at 11 a.m.
As this group observing Remembrance Day heard the fire siren go to start the silent tribute, a motor car went along the street, some moving cars stopped at the kerbs.
And then there was a strange quiet – hardly a thing moved within earshot until the tribute was closed by RSL president Mr. K. F. Barrell reciting the Ode to the Fallen.
The unusual quiet had given dignity to the ceremony.
Creswick State school children, marching across in a body to participate, added greatly to the impressiveness by their presence.
Creswick Shire President, Cr. W. A. McKay laid a wreath there (and another at the memorial at Kingston, earlier) in tribute from the people of the shire.
Cr. McKay briefly addressed the gathering at Creswick, recalling that the ceremony honoured the glorious dead of the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars and those who in Korea, Malaya and Vietnam also gave their lives to preserve our freedom. “We remember, too, those who still suffer,” said Cr. McKay.
Other wreaths were placed by representatives of RSL, Red Cross and the school children present.
17 November 1972
Remembrance Day at Creswick
A small gathering at the war memorial at Creswick last Saturday morning observed Remembrance Day – 11 November, the anniversary of the armistice which ended World War 1.
Shire President Cr J. A. S. Geddes, on behalf of ratepayers and citizens of Creswick, placed on the monument a wreath in memory of those who gave their lives in the two world wars and later wars.
“Let us hope, with President Nixon of the USA, that we are about to enter a long period of peace,” he said.
After wreaths from Creswick RSL, its Women’s Auxiliary, Creswick State School were placed, the assemblage observed two minutes’ silence.
Remembrance Day at Creswick
A small gathering at the war memorial at Creswick last Saturday morning observed Remembrance Day – 11 November, the anniversary of the armistice which ended World War 1.
Shire President Cr J. A. S. Geddes, on behalf of ratepayers and citizens of Creswick, placed on the monument a wreath in memory of those who gave their lives in the two world wars and later wars.
“Let us hope, with President Nixon of the USA, that we are about to enter a long period of peace,” he said.
After wreaths from Creswick RSL, its Women’s Auxiliary, Creswick State School were placed, the assemblage observed two minutes’ silence.
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