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spidge · 24-04-2008, 10:58 PM

35,000 at the dawn service in Melbourne.

Live coverage today of the Anzac Cove dawn service from Gallipoli.

We will also have live coverage of the Australians attending the service at Villers-Bretonneux. This is the 90th anniversary of the Australians /NZ taking the town back from the Germans. This is the first time the service will actually be on Anzac Day as in all previous years it has been celebrated on the Saturday.

Villers Bretonneux Liberated on Anzac Day 1918

24-04-2008, 10:58 PM	#9 (permalink)
spidge Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 3,183 You're Top Poster: #3 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	35,000 at the dawn service in Melbourne. Live coverage today of the Anzac Cove dawn service from Gallipoli. We will also have live coverage of the Australians attending the service at Villers-Bretonneux. This is the 90th anniversary of the Australians /NZ taking the town back from the Germans. This is the first time the service will actually be on Anzac Day as in all previous years it has been celebrated on the Saturday. Villers Bretonneux Liberated on Anzac Day 1918 __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm