Tasmanians will gather across the state on April 25 to commemorate Anzac Day.
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To commemorate Anzac Day, The Examiner is sharing Tasmania’s stories.
We will bring you coverage from Launceston’s dawn service, as well as several other services across the North.
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Anzac Day coverage
Through your eyes
Evandale 11am service
A makeshift cenotaph stood at the front of the Evandale Memorial Hall. A football guernsey was used as the centrepiece.
The local football club designed the guernsey to be filled with as many names of those who fought for our freedom, which the club wore on its Anzac Day match.
Evandale Historical Society organised the town’s commemoration, with chairman Laurie Wotherspoon saying more than 1000 attended the two services.
“We had a good amount turn up for the dawn service. The hall was full and I reckon there were about 500 here then too,” Mr Wotherspoon.
- Tarlia Jordan
Deloraine 11am service
The skies cleared for Deloraine’s 11am Anzac Day service, where families, school groups and ADF members gathered to remember Australia and New Zealand’s fallen servicemen and women.
Author Graeme Davis OAM said he was pleased to see so many younger citizens at the service during his address to the large crowd.
“It’s 75 years since I left school,” he said.
“Sadly I’ve forgotten most of what I was taught. However, one statement of wisdom offered to me by my English master has remained and I offer it now to our students.
“Patriotism isn’t saying your country is the best, but endeavoring to make it so.”
Following the service, ex-servicemen and women marched from the cenotaph to the RSL for lunch.
- Carly Dolan
Launceston march and 11am service
Crowds lined the streets of the CBD to watch the procession of veterans, relatives, scouts and school children taking part in the Anzac Day parade.
Among those marching was Liam Teahan, an engineer who served for 10 years in the Royal Australian Navy.
He was part of the International Coalition Against Terror in Iraq and was on HMAS Kanimbla.
“I was a stoker marine technician, its from the old days when they used to feed the engine with coal, it’s a little bit more technical now,” he said.
“You feel pretty isolated and places like the RSL are absolutely vital so you can have a gas-bag with the older blokes who have been through it so they can pass their wisdom down.”
- Holly Monery
Beaconsfield 11am service
A strong community pulled together at Beaconsfield to pause and reflect for Anzac Day.
About 500 people attended the 11am service.
One of those attending was retired army Major Nic Chandler who served in the Australian Army.
He said Anzac Day was vitally important to educate the wider community about those who serve.
The service also hear from captain John Sammons from the Australian Navy.
- Caitlin Jarvis
George Town 11am service
More than 500 people turned out for George Town's 11am Anzac Day service.
Southern Cross presenter Rachel Williams held back tears as she shared stories of Tasmanians who landed at Gallipoli.
“They were selfless, courageous and ready to lay down their lives for others,” she said.
- Sarah Aquilina
Scottsdale 11am service
Rain did not stop community members in Scottsdale from remembering the country's fallen soldiers on Tuesday.
Hundreds gathered for the town's dawn service and hundreds more attended its 11am memorial service at the RSL club.
Among those locals was Scottsdale RSL president, Bruce Scott, who has a personal connection with Anzac Day.
Having served in Vietnam at aged 21, Mr Scott said his time in battle was something he "would never forget".
The veteran said Anzac Day had become a day to remember every soldier who sacrificed their lives for our country, in all battles and all wars.
"It's a very special day," Mr Scott said.
- Melissa Mobbs
Longford dawn service
“We knew them, we’ll remember them and they will never be forgotten," Longford RSL Sub branch president, Geoff Leitch, said as he opened the Longford dawn service.
More than 200 people crammed through the doors of the Longford Memorial Hall to commemorate those who fought for us, with more than triple that outside.
Mr Leitch said the decision to hold the service inside was made early.
“Every year on this day, we commemorate those who served and those who paid the ultimate price in all conflicts from the late 19th century, through the 20th century and into these early years of the 21st century,” Mr Leitch said.
“Today we remember all those personal who served, have suffered and will continue to suffer because of war.”
Mr Leitch said the Anzacs’ served together with the New Zealanders.
“They created a bond that is so strong that it still lives with us today and that’s the Anzac legacy.”
The rattle of medals touching filled the silent room as Ian Swain representing the Northern Midlands RSL sub branch, David Blair from the Longford Football Club and Brian Harper left the hall to lay wreaths on the cenotaph.
“Anzac Day is an Australian institution and will forever remain so,” Mr Leitch said.
The organisers hope to hold the 11am service outside.
- Tarlia Jordan
Launceston dawn service
The bugle sounded across the Launceston cenotaph as dawn broke over the city to commemorate Anzac Day.
Rain held off for the small crowd who woke up early to pay respect to Australians and New Zealanders who have served their country for the past 102 years.
Riverside High School student Thomas Moreton was guest speaker at the Launceston dawn service, a job he undertook with pride to honour his great-grandfather Wildfred Moreton.
“Sharing and passing on the Anzac spirit and the stories of Australian war history is how we keep the Anzac spirit alive and how Australia knows where it has come from,” he said.
“The sacrifice and service should never be forgotten.”
The Richards family from Hadspen also took the time to reflect at this year’s dawn service.
Jo Richards started as family tradition with her children as they grow up to pay respects to grandparents and great-grandparents who served.
“It’s about commemorating the soldiers that served because if they didn’t serve we wouldn’t have the freedom we have today,” nine-year-old Taylah Richards said.
“When they die it is important and it is really sad for other people,” six-year-old Briony Richards said.
- Holly Monery
Tasmania’s stories
The 40-year old Lance Corporal is currently deployed on Operation Okra with Task Group Taji Rotation Four – a combined force of 270 Australian and New Zealand Defence personnel that is delivered military training to 21,000 Iraqi Security Forces.
The sound of anti aircraft guns firing at night while Clive Lee slept was the reason he signed up to volunteer in the British Army five days after his 17th birthday in March, 1943.
The Evandale man grew up at Southend-On-Sea, a seaside town at the mouth of the Thames estuary in England.
Lieutenant Caleb Muggeridge says he has enjoyed the transition from swapping a metal lathe in a workshop to the controls of a Royal Australian Navy Seahawk helicopter.
The Launceston Church Grammar School graduate completed a fitting and machining trade in Hobart before he decided to pursue a long-held dream to join the Navy as a pilot in 2009.
Veterans living on Tasmania’s East Coast believe the key to ensuring that Anzac Day traditions continue is to teach the youth in their community.
St Helens RSL sub-branch President Wayne Cubitt said the region was more attractive to veterans of a retirement age than younger veterans.
On Tuesday morning, bugles will sound around the nation in the crisp dawn air.
But 100 years on from World War I, the “War to end all wars”, conflict is still rife around the globe.
More than 100 years have passed since the 40th Battalion left Tasmania, but its legacy will not be forgotten this Anzac Day.
Many of the Battalion of Tasmanian soldiers would go on to sacrifice their lives on the battlefields of France and Belgium.
This year, the Army Museum of Tasmania is commemorating Australia’s military history through its new Six-Bob-A-Day Tourists exhibition in Hobart.