ANZAC Day 2020 - A year we will never forget.

Every ANZAC Day Fiona and I go to our local memorial gates here in Clare and along with around 500 people pay our respects to all men and women that have served in all war conflicts around the world and for those that paid the ultimate sacrifice.

This year, 2020 will be one year that we all will never forget. To mark this most important day, Fiona, I and our neighbour, Lutheran Pastor Greg help our own private memorial in Gleeson Street.

On a small table draped with an Australian Flag we had a memorial to my late grandpa, who would never ever miss his ANZAC Day March.

Like so many young boys of his time, he forged his parents signature and enlisted at the age of only 17 and in 1915 was in the battlefields of a world so far from his home in South Australia. Grandpa would never ever speak to his family the horror he and his mates went through. All that we know he was retrieved from the trenches, hospitalised and placed on the critical ill listing. In late 1916 he was brought back to Australia on a hospital ship, he was the lucky one, while many of his mates laid buried in unmarked graves in the Battle Fields of Europe.

Lest We Forget