Yarn April 2015
The April 2015 issue of The Southern Yarn is ready for you to download in PDF form. In this issue we feature extra pages and details about the special Anzac Day ceremony on April 25th, where we mark 100 years since the ill-fated landing of New Zealnad and Australian soldiers at Gallipoli. Read this along with our favourite sections, news updates and more.
We look forward to most of the club members, along with many special guests, on April 25th at the Anzac Day ceremony.
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he March 2015 issue of The Southern Yarn is ready to be retrieved. The big news this month is all the plans in the works for the Anzac Day event, 100 years from the WWI landing at Gallipoli by the troops from Australia and New Zealand.
We look forward to having you join all club members and guests at the event on Saturday April 25th.
Starting today, the University of Manitoba is providing a free, public conference dedicated to the study of the Great Wars (given the confluence of anniversaries of WWI (100) start of WWII (75) and end of Cold War (25)) and their ongoing impact on Canadian society. Continue reading
On Saturday, 25th April, 2015, the centenary of ANZAC Day will be commemorated across Commonwealth countries around the world. The Down Under Club of Winnipeg will be marking this event with members, special guests and inviting the public to remember http://bestacnedrug.com this occasion with us at the Western Canada Aviation Museum.
This event will be given the ceremonial respect it deserves with social and historical activities to follow. We look forward to seeing you there. Mark your calendars.
Poppies on the Roll of Honour. Photograph taken by Kerry Alchin. PAIU2014/128.14
[Read the original of this text at: https://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/customs/poppies/]
The Flanders poppy has long been a part of Remembrance Day, the ritual that marks the Armistice of 11 November 1918, and is also increasingly being used as part of Anzac Day observances. During the First World War, red poppies were among the first plants to spring up in the devastated battlefields of northern France and Belgium. In soldiers’ folklore, the vivid red of the poppy came from the blood of their comrades soaking the ground. Continue reading