Community & Business
18 April, 2025
Anzac Day next Friday
Services are being held across the local area to commemorate 2025 Anzac Day, the 110th anniversary since the Gallipoli landing in World War I.
Services are being held in Westbrook, Greenmount, Nobby, Drayton, Ramsay and Pilton.
The Westbrook Dawn Service is always one of the best attended in the entire region, and this year’s service includes a special mention of Vietnam.
As well as being the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing, 2025 is also the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
Triple M Darling Downs announcer Lee Faulkner will be the Master of Ceremonies.
Group Captain John Bushell (Ret’d) will be the special guest speaker at the service.
Group Captain Bushell Joined the RAAF in January 1963. He trained as a navigator and was posted to No. 82 Wing at Amberley to fly on Canberra aircraft, which included active service in Vietnam, flying on Phantom F-4E and F-111C aircraft followed by postings in Edinburgh, Canberra and Jakarta.
2025 Anzac Day services
Thursday, 24 April
Nobby
10.30am Nobby State School’s Anzac Day service, 4 Davenport Street
Ramsay
2pm Ramsay State School’s Anzac Day service, 173 Ramsay School Rd
Friday, 25 April
Westbrook
5.30am
Westbrook Dawn Service begins at Westbrook Hall, Main Street
6.30am Service concludes, hall opens
Greenmount
9.45am
March, assemble top of Ramsay Street for march to memorial at Bicentennial Park.
10am
Service, Memorial Bicentennial Park.
11.30am
Morning tea, Greenmount Soldiers Memorial Hall
Drayton
7.20am
March starts at Memorial Hall carpark, Brisbane Street
7.30 am
Morning Service at Drayton Soldiers Memorial Park
Pilton
5.30pm
Anzac Sunset Service at Pilton Soldiers Memorial Hall, with community bar and barbecue.
Toowoomba
5.15am
Dawn parade, starts at Toowoomba Bus Station, Neil Street. Left onto Margaret Street to Mothers’ Memorial.
5.30am
Dawn service, Mothers’ Memorial.
9.00am
Wreath laying service, Mothers’ Memorial until 9.50am.
10am
Main parade, starts at the corner of Margaret/Neil Streets. Heads east along Margaret Street to Mothers’ Memorial.
10.20am Main service, Mothers’ Memorial.
Sunday, 27 April
Toowoomba
8am
Cross of Sacrifice, Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance Service Memorial Wall, 1001 Ruthven Street, Kearneys Spring, until 9am.
3pm
Service, Memorial Wall Toowoomba, Returned and Services Lawn, War Cemetery, Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery, ANZAC Avenue, until 4pm.
