Community
18 April, 2025
A time of reflection and remembrance
WARRNAMBOOL residents and visitors will once again stand united this Anzac Day to remember and honour those lost, and those who served and continue to serve our nation.
The Warrnambool RSL will again host a special dawn service, along with a mid-morning service and parade.
Immediate past-president of the sub-branch Tony Geyers said this year’s services will again hold special significance to all those who attend.
“We will host a dawn service, which will start shortly before 5.45am and this will be followed by a gunfire breakfast in the RSL for a gold coin donation,” Mr Geyers said.
“Our usual mid-morning service will commence with a parade of veterans and others from around 10.30am, and a service at the cenotaph from 11am.”
Along with a wreath laying ceremony, a highlight of the 11am service will be the playing of The Last Post and Reveille by a 15 year-old Leading Cadet (Aust. Air Force Cadets) Ben Bolton.
“To have such a young man learning to play the bugle, and to have confidence to perform at our Anzac Day service is something very special,” Mr Geyers said.
“It holds us all in good stead for the future.”
This year also marks the 110th anniversary of Australian and New Zealand forces landing at Gallipoli as part of the Allied invasion in 1915.
On Anzac Day, we recognise more than two million Australian service men and women who have served our country in conflicts, wars and peacekeeping operations.
