{"id":8486,"date":"2010-04-28T01:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=8486"},"modified":"2010-04-28T01:12:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T14:12:14","slug":"anzac-day-in-cobram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=8486","title":{"rendered":"Anzac Day in Cobram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Families and Friends of First AIF <\/em>member Anne Betts sent this report from the Victorian country town of Cobram. (Google Earth co-ordinates: 35o<\/sup>55\u201900.76\u201dS 1450<\/sup>39\u201902.81\u201dE)<\/p>\n

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Cobram started Anzac Day with a Dawn Service at the War Memorial,\u00a0which was well attended by several hundred people.\u00a0
\nAt 9.30am returned servicemen & women, along with descendants, service groups & school children marched with the Brass Band & Pipe Band from the Shire Office down the main street to the Civic Centre & War Memorial.<\/p>\n

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A large crowd of around a thousand people assembled around the War Memorial to pay their respects. There were people of all ages from\u00a0nursing home residents in wheel chairs to families with young children.
\nIt was\u00a0wonderful to see such a big crowd. Each of the local schools were represented by students who read poems or stories & they all did a wonderful job.<\/p>\n

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The local ‘Men’s Shed’ made up 50 small white crosses, which school children were invited to\u00a0name in honour of a soldier they knew of. These crosses were then placed under our ‘Lone Pine’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The member for Murray, Dr. Sharman Stone, spoke very well, having recently returned from visiting our troops in Afghanistan. One by one, the many wreaths were taken up & placed at the Memorial Stone, each one representing a school, service or community group & Returned Service groups.<\/p>\n

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The bands played & the children sang, altogether it was a\u00a0very heart warming display of love & respect for the many brave men & women who fought & died\u00a0for our freedom.<\/p>\n

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I’m sure that the children\u00a0who were involved in today’s ceremony will carry on our Anzac Day tradition & never forget the meaning of Anzac Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lest We Forget.<\/p>\n

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The photos in this report were taken by Anne \u2013 many thanks for sharing your Anzac Day with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Families and Friends of First AIF member Anne Betts sent this report from the Victorian country town of Cobram. (Google Earth co-ordinates: 35o55\u201900.76\u201dS 145039\u201902.81\u201dE) Cobram started Anzac Day with a Dawn Service at the War Memorial,\u00a0which was well attended by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anzac-day","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}