Religious Education and Social Justice

Remembrance Day 11th November

Each year, on 11th November, we pause to reflect on the end of World War One when an Armistice was signed at 11:00 am ending four years of continuous warfare. 

In the four years of the war more than 330,000 Australians had served overseas, and more than 60,000 of them had died. Each year on Remembrance Day Australians observe one minute of silence at 11:00 am, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts.

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place; and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, and now we lie in Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: to you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep,  though poppies grow in Flanders fields.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; 

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.