ANZAC DAY 2012

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Region’s students willvisit battlefields

STUDENTS fromMeningie and Coomandookwill travel to the battlefieldsof World War I in Novemberto commemorate the localswho made the same journey acentury ago.

The Connecting Spiritstrip will be a journey ofremembrance centred onindividual soldiers from thefamilies or communities ofthe students who are takingpart.

Students will visit cemeter-ies, memorials and battle-fields in France and Belgium.

Similar trips were organ-ised in 2006, 2008 and 2010,but this will be the first to

involve children fromCoomandook.

Meningie student AlyshaEckert will be following inthe footsteps of AlbertCharles Hunter, who wasborn in Wellington around1881 and attended MeningiePublic School.

He was killed in May 1917and buried in AbbevilleCommunal Cemetery Exten-sion in France.

- Details: Anyone with fur-ther information about MrHunter’s life can call Alyshaon 8573 7084, email her [email protected] write to PO Box 266,Meningie SA 5264.

Times are changing: Bob Lloyd says public perception of Vietnam vet-erans has changed over the years.

Remember thosewho went beforeFOR Bob Lloyd, as for any

returned service personnel, AnzacDay is unlike any other day.

It is an occasion at which heremembers the mates he lost inVietnam and the service men andwomen who perished in previouswars or other conflicts since.

“It is full on for a couple of hours,but it is good to have a day to remem-ber,” he said.

“I usually go down to Adelaide forVietnam Veterans Day, but AnzacDay is the main one.”

Mr Lloyd has served as the secre-tary and treasurer of the Meningiesub-branch of the Returned andServices League for more than 30years.

Although he leaves the organisa-tion of the Anzac Day ceremony topresident Bob Lewis, he has beenpleased to see schoolchildren bolsterthe number of people in attendanceat services in recent years.

“Last year we got close to 200,” hesaid.

“Over the past five or six years ithas been gradually increasing.”

With the passage of time, the batonhas begun to be passed from the vet-erans of World War II to those who

went to Vietnam and other conflicts.Mr Lloyd said fortunately the pub-

lic’s perception of Vietnam veteranshad changed over the years, sincereceiving a cold reception upon theirarrival home.

“It would have been 30 yearsbefore we started getting muchrecognition,” he said.

“Only in the past 10 years havethings started getting normal.

“It wasn’t too bad out in the coun-try - the smaller RSLs were morewilling, but the larger ones just didn’twant to know you.”

But he thought his was not the firstgeneration of veterans to experiencesuch discrimination after war.

“I think it was even the same inWorld War II - a lot of them weren’trecognised for a while from the FirstWorld War,” he said.

“There wasn’t that mentality.“Then all the other conflicts like

Borneo weren’t recognised for a longtime as well.

“But being out in the country, wewelcome anyone, wherever they’vebeen.

“When they come back fromAfghanistan, they’re recognised fairlywell.”

ANZAC DAY SERVICESSUNDAY, APRIL 22 SERVICESKaroondaAnzac Memorial ServiceSunday, April 22, 7amMemorial Gates, Karoonda OvalMurray BridgeAnzac Memorial ServiceSunday, April 22, 3pmMurray Bridge CemeteryMypolongaAnzac Commemorative ServiceSunday, April 22, 11amMypolonga RSL - followed by lunch at the clubroomsMacclesfieldAnzac Twilight Commemorative ServiceSunday, April 22, 6pmMacclesfield War Memorial at RSL - followed by a bar-becue for a donation

ANZAC DAY, APRIL 25 SERVICESMannumAnzac Dawn ServiceWednesday, April 25, 6amWar Memorial on Randell Street - followed by a break-fast at Mannum Community Club for a gold coin dona-tionBowhillAnzac Dawn ServiceWednesday, April 25, 6.30amBowhill Boat Ramp - followed by breakfast at theBowhill Community Centre for a donationMeningieAnzac Dawn ServiceWednesday, April 25, 6.15amWar Memorial, Princes Highway - followed by breakfastat the RSL clubrooms for a gold coin donationMurray Bridge Anzac Dawn ServiceWednesday, April 25, 6.15amDiamond Park Memorial - March participants toassemble in front of town hall at 6am; followed by abreakfast at the RSL clubrooms for a gold coin dona-tionPalmerAnzac Dawn ServiceWednesday, April 25, 6.30amCollier Park Memorial Gates, Palmer - followed by abarbecue breakfast for a gold coin donationTailem BendAnzac Dawn ServiceWednesday, April 25, 6.15amWar Memorial, opposite Coorong council office - fol-lowed by a gunfire breakfast at the RSL hall for adonationWellingtonAnzac Dawn ServiceWednesday, April 25, 6.30amWellington Hall - followed by a gunfire breakfast for adonation

With their hair a little whiter, their step not quite so sureStill they march on proudly as they did the year before.Theirs were the hands that saved us, their courageshowed the wayTheir lives they laid down for us, that we may live today.

From Gallipoli's rugged hillsides, to the sands ofAlameinOn rolling seas and in the skies, those memories willremain.Of airmen and the sailors, of Lone Pine and Suvla BayThe boys of the Dardenelles are remembered on thisday.

They fought their way through jungles, their bloodsoaked desert sandsThey still remember comrades who rest in foreign lands.They remember the siege of old Tobruk, the mud of theKokoda TrailSome paying the supreme sacrifice with courage thatdid not fail.To the icy land of Korea, the steamy jungles of VietnamAnd the heroic battle of Kapyong and that epic victory atLong Tan.

Fathers, sons and brothers, together they fought anddiedThat we may live in peace together, while at home theirmothers cried.When that final bugle calls them to cross that greatdivideThose comrades will be waiting when they reach theother side.

A TRIBUTE TO ANZAC DAYa poem by Ken Bunker

In 1915, Australia and NewZealand soldiers formed part of theallied expedition that set out to cap-ture the Gallipoli peninsula to openthe way to the Black Sea for theallied navy.

They landed at Gallipoli on April25, meeting fierce resistance fromthe Turkish defenders.

What was planned to be a boldstrike quickly became an eight-month stalemate in which morethan 8000 Australian soldiers werekilled.

Although the campaign failed inits objectives, the actions of thosewho served bequeathed a powerfullegacy.

Anzac Day was officially namedin 1916 and was marked by a widevariety of ceremonies and servicesin Australia, a march throughLondon and a sports day in theAustralian camp in Egypt.

Marches were also held rightacross Australia.

For the remaining years of thewar, Anzac Day was used as an

occasion for patriotic rallies andrecruiting campaigns and paradesof members of the AIF were held inmost capital cities.

During the 1920s, Anzac Day wasestablished as a national day ofcommemoration for the 60,000Australians who died during thewar.

The first year in which all statesobserved some form of public holi-day together on Anzac Day was1927.

By the mid 1930s all the rituals

associated with Anzac Day werefirmly established as part of theday’s ceremonies.

With the coming of the SecondWorld War, Anzac Day was alsoused to also commemorate the livesof Australians lost in that war.

In subsequent years the meaningof the day has been broadened toinclude Australians killed in all mil-itary operations in which the coun-try has been involved.

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BEFORE anyone hadever spoken the wordAnzac, youngAustralians were settingout for far away lands indefence of the Queenand Empire.

One such young manfrom Tasmania - whowould later etch hisname forever intoMurray Bridge’s history- was a part ofAustralia’s first forayinto an internationalconflict, 15 years beforethe Anzac legend wouldbe born on the beachesof Gallipoli.

Private EdmundHiggs, at the age of 20,volunteered to join theSecond TasmanianImperial Bushmen atthe turn of the century,when the six Australiancolonies joined GreatBritain to fight theSecond Boer War inSouth Africa.

The keen young rowerhad grown tired of work-ing for little more thanhis keep in a Tasmanianmill and boarded a shipbound for PortElizabeth, South Africa,on Wednesday, March27, 1901.

His mission would beto help the BritishEmpire retain control ofits African interests inthe face of a rising inde-pendence movement ledby two Boer Republics.

The conflict draggedout into a series of openbattles and guerilla con-flicts that are still thesubject of heateddebates more than a

century later. PrivateHiggs was part of a lightcavalry unit that soon-saw action against thesoldiers of the TransvaalRepublic and he and hiscomrades distinguishedthemselves in the samefashion as the Diggerswho would follow themabroad more than adecade later.

He was one of 836Tasmanians to join towar.

Estimates of the num-ber of Australians toenter the war range upto 16,000, but the realnumber is still the sub-ject of historical debate.

By the time PrivateHiggs returned toAustralia in 1903, 19 ofthe Tasmanian contin-gent had died, but hehad learned valuable les-sons about the nature ofcamaraderie and leader-ship that would help himin the next phase of hislife.

Bored with life inTasmania, he set hissights on the mainlandand headed for theVictorian gold fields,where he worked untilthe gold ran out.

On route to find workin Kalgoorlie, Mr Higgscaught a glimpse of theRiver Murray and wentfor a closer look.

As luck would have itthe young man, whobuilt a passion for thesport of rowing back inTasmania, found a frus-trated Murray BridgeRowing Club crew whohad planned to train but

couldn’t for want of acox.

Ted Higgs volun-teered to fill the gap andso impressed the teamthey begged him toremain in town.

The club found him ajob and lodgings and MrHiggs agreed to stay.

He settled perma-nently in the town andmarried Pearl Palmer onFebruary 28, 1913.

He became such animportant part of therowing club that he tookover coaching duties forthe next four decades.

He coached teams tovictories in the King’sCup in 1920, 1922 and1923.

In one of the most

famous sporting feats inMurray Bridge’s history,Mr Higgs and the row-ing team that wouldbecome known to histo-ry as the Murray Cods,set out for the OlympicGames in 1924.

He accompaniedHerbert Graetz, Frankand Robert Cummings,Arthur Scott, WallyPfeiffer, Alfred Taeuber,Ted Thomas, WallyJarvis and Bill Sladden -an ageing and under-funded team made up ofrailwaymen, firemen andriver boat workers.

It was a gallant, yet ill-fated voyage which sawthe team come painfullyclose to securing anOlympic medal.

With no way to trans-port their boat, the Codsrowed 60 kilometres tothe starting line for thefirst Olympic heat.

It was not to be a suc-cessful campaign thistime.

The squad finishedsecond to Italy in thefirst heat and thirdbehind Argentina andBelgium in the second.

Unfortunately, thatmeant they had failed toqualify for the finals.

Gold medals eventu-ally went to a YaleUniversity side for theUnited States, Canadatook silver and Italybronze.

Although they failedto secure a medal, theCods’ heroics earnedthem a place in sportingfolklore.

Cheering crowdsreceived them upontheir return to Adelaideand they were welcomedback to Murray Bridgeas heroes.

Hero in war and on water

Before the Anzacs: Private Edmund "Ted" Higgs gained fame as the coachof the champion Murray Cods rowing squad after returning to Australia fromthe Boer War.

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John James Cowland

The Great EuropeanWar 1914-1918Private32nd Battalion AIF

He gave his life for the Empire.Killed in action in France on July 19th 1916.

Aged 22 years

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Leslie BarclayPolkinghorne

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Les enlisted at Karoonda, served in the Middle East,Kokoda Track, killed Gona 1/12/42,buried Bomana War Cemetery, PNG.

Fond memories, nieces, nephews and families.

Ryan James Mitchell

Afghanistan

Captain

2nd Battalion

3rd Mentoring TaskForce

Always a cheerful smile, wicked sense ofhumour & commanding presence.So very proud of our young hero.

Thankyou.

Maxwell Hauber

World War 2Aircraftsman9th Squadron RAAF

Served in Darwin enlisted 1942.17 years old & discharged in 1946.

Anthony Hauber

World War 1 & 2Private242648th Battalion

Enlisted in 1916, 18 years old.Served overseas, wounded twice.

Returned home 1919Served in Australia Home Guard 1942

George AlexanderCrowley

World War 2

Sergeant

3rd NG1B

Dad, you gave your youth for thiscountry. Fondly remembered on this

and every Anzac Day.Your loving son, Peter

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