General News
20 April, 2023
We will remember them
ANZAC Day services are being organised in Camperdown and Derrinallum, ready for ANZAC Day on Tuesday next week.
ANZAC Day services are being organised in Camperdown and Derrinallum, ready for ANZAC Day on Tuesday next week.
Camperdown will mark the day with a dawn service at 6am at the Soldier’s Memorial in Manifold St, with a breakfast at 7am at the RSL hall in Pike St.
A march will start in front of the ANZ Bank building at 10am, with people asked to gather at 9.45am in preparation.
A morning tea will follow at the RSL hall.
Derrinallum’s service will begin at 10.30am at the cenotaph on the main street, with local veteran’s speaking at the event.
Morning tea will be held afterwards at the history rooms.
Camperdown RSL president Kevin Murray said ANZAC Day was important not only to veterans, but to the community as well.
“The RSL conducts the march, the dawn service, and all those events not for ourselves, but on behalf of the Camperdown community to provide them with an opportunity to remember the sacrifice that has been made by those people who went off to war and never came home, and also the ones that did come home and bore scars of their wartime service for the rest of their lives,” he said.
“It is also to remind us that we have young men and women, even today, wearing the uniform of the Australian Forces both here at home in peace time and serving overseas.
“It gives us an opportunity to recognise in our community who the veterans are, the ones that are wearing their medals on their left breast, and it gives us the opportunity to say thank you to them for the service they provided.”
In the lead-up to ANZAC Day, Camperdown’s RSL sub branch has been selling ANAZC Day badges and merchandise at Woolworths and IGA.
These will remain on sale until tomorrow Saturday, April 22, with a stall outside Camperdown’s newsagency on Saturday.
Mr Murray said merchandise sales had gone “quite well” to his knowledge.
“The local people, both here and in the outer regions like at Cobden, Timboon and other places where we sell badges, are very generous and have always responded to these things in the past,” he said.
“I hope they continue to do so into the future.
“It’s a fundraising activity, which is important to providing veteran support.”