Community & Business
15 November, 2023
Remembrance Day in a year threatening to peace
The troubled situations in the Middle East and Ukraine were a sobering backdrop in the minds of those attending Remembrance Day services across the district, our nation and around the world this year.
While the annual Remembrance Day services are never as well attended as the Dawn and other commemorative services on Anzac Day, numbers have been slowly growing as the years go by.
On Saturday there was a gathering of around fifty people at the Clifton Cenotaph on Edward Street, while the Allora service drew some seventy people to the local War Memorial Park on Warwick Street.
The president of the Clifton Sub-branch of the R.S.L. acted as M.C. for the local service, assisted by two local girls in raising the Australian and New Zealand flags from half-mast and Brianna Naumann who read the Remembrance Day address.
Wreaths were laid by Vaughan Pauli on behalf of the R.S.L. Sub-branch and Bernadette Trimingham representing the community.
