Members of the community are invited to attend the following Anzac Day services on Wednesday 25 April to remember the ANZACs and to commemorate 100 years since the great conclusive battles fought to end World War One.
Dawn service: Manly War Memorial, The Corso, 4.25am
Reverend Graham Perry will be MC, Vaughan Price will be bugler and the 201 Army Cadet Unit Northern Beaches will provide the catafalque party.
Music will be supplied by Manly District Band Ensemble and singer Cairyn Bloomfield.
Dawn service: Manly Dam, King Street, Manly Vale, arrive by 5.15am for a 5.30am start
Hosted by Manly Warringah War Memorial Park Remembrance Trust and Northern Beaches Council.
President of Manly Warringah War Memorial Park Remembrance Trust, Bob Giltinan, will be MC with Vaughan Price as bugler and 17 Battalion, Australian Army will provide the catafalque party.
(There is limited parking in surrounding streets and no public vehicle access into Manly Dam. It is recommended attendees bring a torch and their own water.)
Dawn service: Dee Why Beach, Ted Jackson Reserve, 5.30am
Hosted by Dee Why RSL Club and proudly supported by Northern Beaches Council
Centre Manager of Northern Beaches Veterans Centre, Ben Webb, will be MC with Able Seaman Chris Ellis as bugler and 201 Army Cadet Unit Northern Beaches will provide the catafalque party.
Music will be supplied by Warringah brass band, Manly Warringah Pipe Band and Northern Beaches Chorus.
The event will be followed by a $6 breakfast from 6:30am and 2-UP from 12pm.
Contact Dee Why RSL for shuttle bus information.
Commemoration Service and march: Manly War Memorial, The Corso, 11.00am
At 10.55am the march will commence up Darley Road to the Manly War Memorial.
Reverend Graham Perry will be MC with Vaughan Price as bugler and HMAS Penguin will provide the catafalque party.
Guest speaker for the service will be Lieutenant Commander Peter Thompson, HMAS Penguin.
Music will be supplied by Manly District Band Ensemble and singers Cairyn Bloomfield, Sarah Taranaki & Steve Rota.
(In the event of wet weather, the service will be held at St Matthews Church located on the Corso).
Contributions of cut rosemary are gratefully accepted at Manly Town Hall customer service before COB on Tuesday 24 April.
Northern Beaches Mayor Michael Regan said April 24 this year, the day before Anzac Day, will be the 100th anniversary of the now legendary action by Australian forces to liberate the village of Villers-Bretonneux in France’s Picardy region during the Great War.
“This was a critical action which helped the Allies bring the war to a victorious conclusion.”
“The Australian War Memorial in France is located in Villers-Bretonneux and within it lies the graves of over 770 Australian soldiers.
“The sacrifices made by Australian soldiers on behalf of France are to this day acknowledged by the people Villers-Bretonneux who will host their own annual Anzac Day Commemoration service, and who in many other ways continue to express strong bonds of affection and appreciation for the people of Australia,” said Mayor Regan.
Please visit northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au for event and road closure information.