ANZAC Day 2015, The Centenary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.

 25 April 2015

One Hundred years since the ANZACS landed on the peninsula at Gallipoli, 

where so many lives were lost.

ANZAC Day is the most moving day for both Australians and New Zealanders.

All over the world Aussies and Kiwis, attend dawn services, gather together

to honour and remember. To recognize the service and sacrifice our forces

made and continue to make so that we may all have better lives.

My little family held our own small service in the small town of Mussig, France

just over the border from Germany. 

We went to honour an Australian RAAF Flight Sergeant who had been laid to rest

along with six British airmen in a Commonwealth War Grave in the local cemetery.
I thought about J. C. Smith, my Grand Father who landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915
and the conditions he endured before he returned home to Australia.
I reflected on the effect World War One had on so many countries and their people.

We reflected on the life of  Australian C. G. Arthur, 

of the life cut short, the family left behind. 

The sacrifice for his country.

We stood in the corner of the small, French cemetery 

and recognised the lives of the men that were buried far from home.

C. G. Arthur, Royal Australian Air Force 

V.J. Pickford, Royal Air Force

L. R. Melbourne, Royal Air Force 

R Liderth, Royal Air Force 

E. A. Cunningham, Royal Air Force 

J. Clegg, Royal Air Force 

J.B. Bull, Royal Air Force

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