LILYDALE RSL DAWN SERVICE
ANZAC DAY
On Monday 25 April, the Humanities Captains, Allison Kincaid and Angus Baldson represented Lilydale High School at the Lilydale RSL’s Dawn Service.
The Captains laid a wreath on behalf of the students and staff and also addressed the Service by reciting the ANZAC Requiem.
The school extends their gratitude to Allison and Angus for so admirably representing the school on such a solemn occasion.
LEST WE FORGET!
ANZAC REQUIEM
On this day above all days we recall those who served and did not return to receive the grateful thanks of the nation.
We remember those who still sleep where they were left - amid the holly scrub in the valleys and on the ridges of Gallipoli, on the rocky and terraced hills of Palestine - and in the lovely cemeteries of France.
We remember those who lie asleep in ground beneath the shimmering haze of the Libyan desert - at Bardia, Derna, Tobruk - and amid the mountain passes and olive groves of Greece, Crete, and the rugged snow cap hills of Lebanon and Syria.
We remember those who lie in unknown resting places in almost every land, and those gallant men whose grave is the unending sea.
Especially do we remember those who died as prisoners of war remote from their homeland.
We think of those of our women’s services who gave their lives in our own and foreign lands and seas, and those that proved to be the courageous sisters of our fighting men.
We recall too, the staunch friends who fought beside our men on Anzac Day, men of New Zealand who helped create the name of Anzac.
We recall all those that gave their lives in the Royal Navy, the British Army, the Royal Airforce, the Merchant Service and in the British Commonwealth and Allied Forces.
We think of the gallant men and woman who died and those that have suffered the effects of war in Korea, Malaya, Borneo, Vietnam, Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan and in all peacekeeping commitments.
May we……and our successors…..prove worthy of their sacrifices.
Lest we forget.
ANZAC BISCUITS
The original recipe!
Kristy Mays