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Veterans recognised on Remembrance Day in Whittlesea, Mitchell, Macedon Ranges

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RETURNED and Services League, RSL, sub-branches across Mitchell, Whittlesea and Macedon Ranges municipalities held a minute of silence on Friday to honour Australia’s fallen soldiers.

Kilmore

A crowd of more than 50 people attended the cenotaph at Kilmore’s Hudson Park to mark the occasion in a ceremony hosted by Kilmore-Wallan RSL.

Sub-branch president Rod Dally spoke of the sacrifice of Australia’s service men and women during World War One, noting the human toll of war.

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Whittlesea

In a ceremony at Whittlesea Memorial Arch, community members stood alongside representatives of Whittlesea Secondary College, Whittlesea Primary School and City of Whittlesea to lay wreaths and poppies with RSL members.

Whittlesea RSL vice-president Peter Crook was moved by the number of people who attended on a workday to remember the atrocities of the war.

He said people continued to place flowers to pay respect to the soldiers who gave their lives to the country.

“You’d find during the day people will come and put flower tributes here, and by tonight there will be lots of flowers,” Mr Crook said.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted services for the past two years, Mr Crook said Remembrance Day was important for communities to be reminded of the past.

“The armistice [was] the signing of the treaty that finished the First World War,” he said.

“We follow on from that, and hope we don’t ever have a third great war.”

Romsey, Lancefield

The Romsey/Lancefield RSL sub-branch hosted a Remembrance Day service at the Lancefield cenotaph.

The service was attended and assisted by students from the three primary schools in the area.

As part of the service, President of the Romsey/Lancefield RSL Reinhard Goschiniak read about the lives of two of the thirty two soldiers whose names appear on the Lancefield cenotaph, Chaplain Alfred Ernest Goller and Private William Raymond Summers.

The poem The Solitary Soldier written by John McCosker Order Of Australia (Military Division) was read by Lynne Rodda.

Other Remembrance Day services across the region were in Broadford, Seymour and Wallan.

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