Far from home and familyMP | Summicron 35/2 | Adox CHS 100 ART | RodinalThe Australian cemetery - 11
Far from home and familyMP | Summicron 35/2 | Adox CHS 100 ART | RodinalThe Australian cemetery - 111 men and one nursing sister from WW1, are buried in Harefield church, Middlesex.Each year on Anzac Day - 25th April - a commemoration service is attended by local dignitaries, representatives from the Australian and New Zealand governments, local school children and many retired servicemen. Following the church service the congregation move to the cemetery and form around the Anzac memorial. The last post and reveille are played, followed by a wreath laying ceremony.The local school children also place flowers on the well kept grave sites. I have attended this service for several years now but now we have moved away I can no longer attend. I always found it very moving that these young boys died so very far from home. Nearly all of their families will never have seen their final resting place as the cost of travel back then was prohibitively expensive.So there they lie together, comrades-in-arms in a small corner of England that is forever Australia. I will be thinking of them on the 25th. -- source link
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