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Title: ANZAC Day
Post by: BumbleB on Thursday 24 April 14 19:59 BST (UK)
I've just noticed the poppies, and have made an assumption!!!  I do hope that I'm correct  :-\

Whilst I'm a POM (born and bred), I did have a relative who emigrated to Australia and then came back two years later, fought and died in WW1, for the Australians. 

Thank you.

Modified:  his two sons fought in WW2 - one going down with HMS Sydney, and the other, who survived, finally dying in 1999, a newspaper message referring to him as "a very brave blinded Paratrooper".
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: trystan on Thursday 24 April 14 20:04 BST (UK)
Hiya,

Well spotted :)  Yes, indeed the RootsChat header is changed to mark the memory of Anzac Day (Fri 25th April), it's early morning Friday in Australia and New Zealand right now.

Trystan
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: jess5athome on Thursday 24 April 14 21:15 BST (UK)
Hi, A very nice touch Trystan  :)

Frank.
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: oldtimer on Thursday 24 April 14 22:07 BST (UK)
I too had a New Zealand relative who died in the Great War.

Thank you Trystan.
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Thursday 24 April 14 22:37 BST (UK)
Thank you Trystan .... a lovely touch.


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: trystan on Thursday 24 April 14 23:15 BST (UK)
It's the least we could do for the memory of those brave souls who laid down their lives for their country.

Trystan
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: Wilson Hunter on Thursday 24 April 14 23:20 BST (UK)
Lest We Forget
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: murphy60 on Thursday 24 April 14 23:31 BST (UK)
In memory.........

Murphy
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: carol80 on Friday 25 April 14 01:13 BST (UK)
An innocent Victim
 Cornelius Hendricus Moolenaar  16/3/1933 - 17/5/1945
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: wini on Friday 25 April 14 07:29 BST (UK)
Also,posted on TOT
wini
Title: Re: ANZAC Day
Post by: DeeBoneham on Tuesday 29 April 14 13:32 BST (UK)
I was in London for ANZAC Day for the first time this year.  Went to the Dawn Service, Cenotaph and Westminster Abbey then in the evening went to a NZ Society evening at New Zealand House after all that.  Long day but well worth it! On Sunday went to a lovely service at Hadleigh run by the Suffolk British-Australia Society. It has been worth it to commemorate those WW2 Bomber Command staff who died during the war and since (oh and I forgot to say I went to the Bomber Command Memorial too while in London to lay crosses for NZers and Aussies)...
Dee