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« Reply #50 on: April 25, 2015, 03:04:29 pm »


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Anzac Cove service an eerie, emotional occasion  gallery  video
ANDREA VANCE AT GALLIPOLI
Last updated 16:48, April 25 2015
 

Highlights from the dawn service on the same beach that soldiers fought one hundred years ago.

At the foot of the steep hillsides where Anzac soldiers found themselves at the mercy of Turkish machine guns, 10,000 kept a vigil through the bitterly cold night.

Dawn break grew closer and the silence blanketed the frigid shoreline, as New Zealanders and Australians remembered the young men who crashed ashore 100 years ago.

As the sun rose over the Gallipoli peninsula, the Reveille rang out, punctuating the eerie quiet.

Britain's Prince Charles (L) speaks during the dawn ceremony at Anzac Cove
OSMAN ORSAL/Reuters


Just over 2000 flag-draped Kiwi pilgrims - aged between 18 and 92 - waited through the long night where temperatures hovered just above freezing. They had won a place in a nation-wide ballot.

At 4am the towering cliffs were lit up as the local Gallipoli choir sang. Finally, the service began at 5.30am with the mounting of the Catafalque Party - a guard of honour formed over a coffin.

A crowd of about 10,000 attended the Anzac Day ceremony at Gallipoli.
OSMAN ORSAL/Reuters

Prime Minister John Key addressed the still crowd, telling them that he would not say: "Lest we forget."

"After one hundred years we can say, on this day April 25, 2015, 'We remember'."

The service was taking place in "a place of courage and heroism and duty" but "also a place of fear and waste and loss."

A bagpiper performs during a dawn ceremony at Anzac Cove.
OSMAN ORSAL/Reuters

Gallipoli is a byword for "the best characteristics of Australians and New Zealanders," he said.

But the generosity of Turkey in welcoming them back means "Gallipoli also symbolises the healing power of time."

His Australian counterpart Tony Abbott also spoke and was followed with a reading by Prince Charles.

The British Royal read from the writings of two Anzac soldiers: Lieutenant Ken Millar of the 2nd Battalion and Company Quartermaster Sergeant Benjamin Leane of the 10th Battalion.

His son Prince Harry was also at the service alongside former prime minister Helen Clark, Irish President Michael Higgins and British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond.

Poppy wreathes were placed carefully at the foot of a stone altar in memory of the fallen, and in honour of those who still serve.

New Zealand, which had a population of one million, lost 2779 with 5212 wounded in the disastrous eight-month campaign.

More than 8700 Australians, 21,255 Brits, 10,000 French and 1358 The Indian troops were killed. And for the Turkish the carnage was greater - losing 86, 692.

The Ode of Remembrance was read by Defence Force chief Lieutenant Tim Keating and as he finished, the Last Post rang out.

After the poignant service wrapped up, the hoards slowly broke away from the stands as they began to make the steep climb up the peaks that tower over Anzac Cove.

Australians will attend a ceremony at Lone Pine. At the highest point of the ridge, Chunuk Bair, the Kiwis will hold their own memorial service early in the afternoon.

As they come up, they will meet a procession of around 35,000 local scouts, marching in honour of their war hero, Turkey's first president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Prince Charles will read again during the service and his son, Prince Harry will lay a wreath. Other dignitaries include Irish President Michael Higgins and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, accompanied by his Kiwi wife Margie.

At 91 and with an ulcer on his leg, Bill Chegwidden, from Whanganui, hesitated when he won a place in the ballot.

"He said I think I'm a bit old," his daughter Julie, a nurse, said.

"Three days later, I got a call: daughter, would you like to take me to Gallipoli? It was really magic."

Her grandfather William Vincent Chegwidden survived the doomed landings and lived until aged 86. Julie was moved to tears when she arrived on the peninsula.

"He never talked about it. He just said it was a bloody, literally a bloody, waste of time," she said.

Snuggled-up in the stands overnight, her father said: "There's a hell of a lot of people here...it's tiring. We'll be driven up there [to Chunuk Bair] tomorrow."

Julie added: "[Dad's] great - he walks everywhere but gets really tired. He's done really well."

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from Hutt News....

Early Anzac service to be commemorated at Petone railway station

A service at Petone railway station will remember the war
sacrifices of railwaymen on both sides of the Tasman.


By  | 9:46AM - Thursday, 18 February 2016

An Australian red ensign is unfurled on Anzac Day, 2016, at the Petone Railway station. A New Zealand ensign was flown in NSW, Australia, on the same day. The flagpoles at Petone and Hornsby were established by NZ and Australian railwaymen to mark rail workers killed in WWI. — Ref: 191606504, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries.
An Australian red ensign is unfurled on Anzac Day, 2016, at the Petone Railway station. A New Zealand
ensign was flown in NSW, Australia, on the same day. The flagpoles at Petone and Hornsby were
established by NZ and Australian railwaymen to mark rail workers killed in WWI.
 — Ref: 191606504, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries.


KIWIRAIL and a group of history and rail enthusiasts are preparing to mark the centenary of one of the first Anzac Day services held in New Zealand — at Petone railway station.

A dawn service, beginning at 7am, will be held at the Petone station on Anzac Day, April 25th, 100 years to the day since the first Anzac service was held there.

As part of the commemoration Hutt News is running a competition where winners and their families will receive free rides on the Passchendaele Express steam train, and a $500 travel voucher for the Interislander ferry.

On the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, April 25th, 1916, a commemorative flagpole made from kauri and Australian hardwood — symbolising “the unity of Australian and New Zealand railway men in peace and war” — was unveiled outside the Petone railway station. A similar event took place in Hornsby, NSW, Australia.

By this time it was said that up to 2,000 New Zealand Railways employees had enlisted in World War I, and at least 37 had died.

Prominent among them was Major Norman Fredereick Hastings, a 36-year-old fitter and foreman at the Petone workshops who assumed command of the 6th (Manawatu) Squadron of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment during the August offensive at Gallipoli. He died of wounds received on August 9th, 1915 during the battle for Chunuk Bair.

It is believed his death was a primary motivation for the erection of the Petone memorial.

“On Anzac Day this year, it won't be the New Zealand flag that will be hauled up the tall kauri and jarrah pole but an Australian red ensign,” Petone Community Board member and history enthusiast Gerald Davidson said.

“It is a tradition that goes back to the very first Anzac Day memorial held there in 1916 following a suggestion in 1915 that Australian and New Zealand railwaymen should fly each other's flags to signify their comradeship at Gallipoli.”

Dignitaries are expected to attend this year's commemoration but the original service was a community event and Davidson said organisers wanted locals to come.

A bonus is the chance to view and enjoy a ride to Taita on the Passchendaele Express steam train ($5, with proceeds going to a charity).


The steam locomotive Passchendaele will be giving rides between Petone and Taita on Anzac Day this year. — Photo: Mark Taylor.
The steam locomotive Passchendaele
will be giving rides between Petone
and Taita on Anzac Day this year.
 — Photo: Mark Taylor.


BE IN TO WIN

Anzac Day is a time of reflection and remembrance, and that is reflected in the topic of our essay competition.

For a chance to win a family pass for a ride on the Passchendaele Express steam train, and a $500 travel voucher for the Interislander ferry, readers are being challenged to write no more than 500 words on the topic:

This Anzac Day KiwiRail is remembering all the railway men and woman who helped in WW1. Who do you remember on Anzac Day?

Email your entry by April 4th to editor@huttnews.co.nz (with ‘Petone Railway’ in the subject line) and include your name, the suburb you live in, phone number/s and your age group — group 5-10 years, 10-15 years, 15 years or over.

The steam locomotive Ab608, built in 1915, has carried the Passchendaele nameplate since 1925, when the then Minister of Railways, Gordon Coates, approved a plan to remember railwaymen killed in The Great War. By the time it was withdrawn from service in 1967, Ab 608 had steamed more than 2.4 million kilometres. The locomotive has since been restored to full working order by Steam Incorporated at Paekākāriki.


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