Remembrance Day

11 November 2009

Ninety one years ago on 11 November 1918 at 11 am the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than 4 years of fighting.
Major ceremonies will be held at the Australian War Memorial and at state memorials throughout Australia to remember those who fought and died for our country in war and armed conflicts..

The Australian War Memorial invites you to the service on
Wednesday 11 November at 10.15 am
to commemorate those men and women who fought and died
for Australia in all wars and armed conflict.

For information on memorial services across Australia and overseas can be found on the Department of Veterans Affairs website.

Wherever you work or whatever you are doing, please take a few minutes at 11:00 am for Remembrance and to Keep The Memory Alive.

 LEST WE FORGET

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The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the joint Australian–UK decision, announced by The Hon Greg Combet AM MP and the Hon Kevan Jones MP, to conduct a full DNA testing program on the remains of Australian and British soldiers found in mass graves at Pheasant Wood (Fromelles), and for their continuing commitment to identify as many of the fallen as is possible. We also thank the Australian, UK and French governments for affording dignified individual reburials for these soldiers, buried by German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles on 19/20 July 1916, in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery presently under construction at Fromelles.