RECORDING AND TRANSMISSION ADVICE
Please note that the 2023 Bargara ANZAC Day Dawn Service will be both Video & Audio Recorded and Transmitted Live Internationally.
PARADE
5.00am – Parade Assembles at Cnr Bauer & Tanner Streets, Bargara
5.15am – Parade forms up under direction of Parade Marshall, Mr. John O’Callaghan5.30am Parade marches off and travels east in Bauer Street
ORDER OF SERVICE
5.45am COMMENCEMENT OF SERVICE
- Playing of ‘Terre de Combat’ – composed and performed by Vignacourt native Bruno Sauvy
- Welcoming Address
- Mounting of the Catafalque Party – Cadets of HMTS Bundaberg
- ‘A Digger Remembers’ – An interview with the late Pte Fred Strutt
OFFICIAL PARTY
- Ms Liz Carson representing Keith Pitt MP, Federal Member for Hinkler & the residents of the Hinkler electorate
- Crs May Mitchell and Vince Habermann OAM representing the residents and staff of the Bundaberg Regional Council
- Service Padre, the Reverend Jennifer Lynn representing the Bargara Uniting Church and the religious beliefs of the Bargara community
- Mr. Michael Olesen representing the Bundaberg Services Club and the Sandhills Sports Club
- Acting Inspector Glenn Cameron representing the men & women of the Queensland Police Service
STUDENT READING – “WHAT ANZAC DAY MEANS TO ME” – Bargara State School Student, Lillian Tully
SERVICE PRAYER by Service Padre – Rev Jennifer Lynn
6.12am AERIAL SALUTE – T28 Trojan WWII Fighter/Ground Attack Aircraft ‘Miss Stress’ – Piloted by Capt. Ross Parker
LAYING OF WREATHS
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- Ms Liz Carson representing Keith Pitt MP, Federal Member for Hinkler & the residents of the Hinkler electorate
- Crs May Mitchell and Vince Habermann OAM representing the residents and staff of the Bundaberg Regional Council
- Acting Inspector Glenn Cameron representing the men & women of the Queensland Police Service
- Service Padre, the Reverend Jennifer Lynn representing the Bargara Uniting Church and the religious beliefs of the Bargara community
- Mr. Michael Olesen representing the Bundaberg Services Club and the Sandhills Sports Club
- Mrs Faye Chatham representing the Bundaberg District Women’s Veterans
- Mr Phil Dunkley representing the Mayor and villagers of Vignacourt, France
- Ms Roslyn Wilson & Ms Le-Anne Spruce commemorating the life and service of their grandfather, the late Major Charles August Wittkopp MC who served with the 9th Battalion in France from 1916 to 1918. Injured at Pozieres July 1916; Awarded the Military Cross at Lagnicourt, 8 May 1917. Severely wounded at the 3rd Battle of Ypres & returned to Australia March 1918. Served with AN&MEF in New Guinea from 1918 to 1920 and with Australian Military Forces from 1940 to 1942 as Major in the 47th Battalion.
- Mrs Isobel Barnes commemorating the life and service of her father, the late Sergeant George Edward McClughan, Royal Irish Rifles and Royal Artillery, incarcerated in the Palembang POW Camp, Sumatra and Chiangi POW Camp, Singapore and her grandfather, Captain Joseph McClughan, Royal Artillery, serving at The Somme, WWI. Issy marches and wears her father’s medals for the first time in her life.
- Mr Brian Chesson representing the Coral Coast Christian Church
- Cynthia & Dave Hoogstraten – remembering the men, women and children who were incarcerated in prisoner of war camps all over the world during the wars. Let us remember the individuals who lost their lives in these inhumane camps, acknowledge the indomitable spirit of those who survived and to the allied forces who set them free.
- Hayley Wood & Stephamie Beatty representing the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Bundaberg
- Pastor Jennifer Lynn & Theodore McLaghlin representing the Surf Church and Stoked.
- Ms Helen Blackburn, Vice President representing the membership of the Bundaberg Regional Ratepayers Association
- Ms Cheryle Rayson representing the Bundaberg Chamber of Commerce
- Mr Michael Oleson representing the Bundaberg Services Club and the Sandhills Sports Club
- Patricia Williamson and Nola Medina representing the Bargara Lions Club
- Mr. John Lathouras representing the Greek Community of Bundaberg
- Ms Yanna Klaassen representing the Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service
- Students Harper Gross & Alby Cohen representing the students & staff of the Bargara State School
- College Captains, Molly Sellers & Cooper Leeson representing the Students & Staff of Shalom College
- School Captain, Benjamin Rudd representing the students and staff of St Lukes Anglican School
- Students Heath Atkinon & Ellena Crow representing the staff & students of St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School
- Students Lawson Heidke & Olivia Kronk representing the students and staff of St. John’s Lutheran Primary School
- Students Emma Hosking & Chelsea Penny representing the Bundaberg Christian College
THE LAMENT played by Piper Kyle Myers
THE ORATION – Ms Helen Blackburn
PLAYING OF ‘SIR’
THE ODE by Mrs Ashleigh Tye-Johnson, representing the Bargara Remembers Committee
THE LAST POST by Bugler Ms Selena Rasmussen
ONE MINUTE’S SILENCE
ROUSE by Bugler Ms Selena Rasmussen
NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL ANTHEM by Bargara State School Choir
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM by the Bargara State School Choir
DISMISSAL OF THE CATAFALQUE PARTY
THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SERVICE ENDS