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Lest We Forget
10 years ago
Dawn. 25th April 1915. The Gallipoli Peninsula.
On this day 100 years ago began bitter fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula that lasted until December that year. During that fighting was the birth of a legend. A legend of mateship, sticking by your mates and fighting to the end, never giving up.
The ANZAC.
That legend has continued through two world wars, Korea, Vietnam and all the way up to the current conflicts in the middle east.
Australians and New Zealanders working side by side to keep the legend, and each other, alive.
I have been doing my own family research into my great great uncle, Private Bruce Weary of the 2/17 AIF (Grandma's uncle) who was killed at El Alamein and remains buried there to this day.
While we do not know too much at the moment, the story that soldiers who served with him told the family was that he went out on his own inititive to repair a break in a communication line and was killed, but because he was not ordered to do it he was given no recognition for this act, nor do I think he would have thought he would get any.
so, on this day of rememberance, I suggest that everyone look back into their family history, you never know what you will find.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Pz5KsyfN0 - last post
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.
On this day 100 years ago began bitter fighting on the Gallipoli Peninsula that lasted until December that year. During that fighting was the birth of a legend. A legend of mateship, sticking by your mates and fighting to the end, never giving up.
The ANZAC.
That legend has continued through two world wars, Korea, Vietnam and all the way up to the current conflicts in the middle east.
Australians and New Zealanders working side by side to keep the legend, and each other, alive.
I have been doing my own family research into my great great uncle, Private Bruce Weary of the 2/17 AIF (Grandma's uncle) who was killed at El Alamein and remains buried there to this day.
While we do not know too much at the moment, the story that soldiers who served with him told the family was that he went out on his own inititive to repair a break in a communication line and was killed, but because he was not ordered to do it he was given no recognition for this act, nor do I think he would have thought he would get any.
so, on this day of rememberance, I suggest that everyone look back into their family history, you never know what you will find.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Pz5KsyfN0 - last post
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.
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Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.