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Centenary of Armistice at Kingston Avenue of Honour

Below find road map to the Avenue, map of events area and program
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Kingston Avenue of Honour
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A Program of Commemoration and Celebration – 11th November 2018
9.00    Tree Trail runs every 30 minutes starting 9.00 near the Info Centre. Closes at 10, reopens        
            11.30. Displays will be in place all day, best viewed either side of the commemorations.
             Register at the Information Tent throughout the day to enter the draw to win a night’s     
            accommodation at Rossmore Cottage in Creswick ($150 value)
10.00  Town Crier - Philip Greenbank.    Start assembling at the Obelisk
10.15   Creswick Brass Band  - final song “Tree of Peace”
​10.30   Commemorative Parade, assembled by Ken McMillan, led by the Creswick Light Horse
10.35   Welcome Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners - Michael Ronaldson, former MP
10.40   Remembrance Service - Alan Morris, Creswick Smeaton RSL sub branch President
            “Abide With Me" - Creswick Brass Band featuring Tim Drylie
            Prayer - The Revd Canon Geoffrey Tisdall
            Poem “In Flanders Fields” John McCrae - Lilli Bowyer, Daylesford Secondary College
            Commemorative Address - Alan Morris
            Laying of Wreaths - Alan Morris
            The Ode - Alan Morris
            The Last Post - Suzi Keone
11.00   Minute Silence
            The Rouse - Suzi Keone
            National Anthem - Tim Drylie
            Michael Ronaldson - closing remarks
             Time to mingle, take a break, view displays, have morning tea or some lunch, do the Tree
            Trail, visit the steam machinery and vintage cars, see the lost trades, or find your tree.
11.45   Master of Ceremonies - Rob Lockhart descendant of SIster Ella (Tot) Redman
            Neil Adam’s “The Kingston Avenue of Honour”  performed by the Creswick Brass Band
            with the Kingston Avenue Singers
            “Salute to the Anzacs” Tim Drylie
            Band to play marches and singalongs
11.45 to 1.00  “Games of the Times” everyone welcome, in the Avenue south past the maze
1.00    “Anzacs at War” Raffle Draw and Speakers
            Julie Baulch - President Kingston Friends of the Avenue
            Lilli Bowyer - Daylesford Secondary College
            Peter Rickard - author of “Sentinels of Service - Volunteers of the Kingston Avenue”
            Tim Fitzgerald of the 39th Battalion Association - banner custodian
            Greg Green - President of the VIC West sub branch of the Military Brotherhood 
            Military Motorcycle Club
 1.30    Duncan Brown - Scottish Reels and Jigs
 2.00    The Mary Gardens
 2.30    The Australian Irish Dance Company Ballarat
 3.00    Roundabout Folk Band 
 3.45    Draw of Rossmore Cottage registration prize, and thank you
 4.00    Road reopens
Kingston Avenue of Honour & Armistice Centenary Parade
Kingston Avenue of Honour & Armistice Centenary Service
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