You are invited to Join the Yandina-Eumundi RSL at the Remembrance Day 2020 Service, Wednesday 11 November. This service will be live-streamed can be watched here or by using the youtube link – .https://youtu.be/b7OYZUmEB2Y
Due to COVID requirements this will be a small Service at the Yandina-Eumundi RSL to honour those who have served.
To help us manage the numbers in the hall the service will be ticketed so bookings are a must.
Please let us know if you have any special needs or require seating for the event by contacting the RSL directly. Please download the Program here – Remembrance Day 2020.- *TBA*
Order of Service
10.30am — Flag lowered to half-mast
10.40am — Assembly at the Hall
10.53am — Service commences
Welcome by MC, Sub-Branch member, Barrington Stevenson
Valedictory recited by President
“They went with songs to the battle
They were young straight of limb true of eye, steady and aglow,
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted
They fell with their faces to the foe
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.”
Lest we forget.
Last post — Bugler (Victor Flatt)
11am — One Minutes Silence
Rouse — Bugler (Victor Flatt)
(Flag is raised to Rouse)
Lest we forget.
Address by Guest Speaker – Andy Fermo
Laying of floral tributes to Lament
Lament – Piper
Reading of Poem “In Flanders’ Field”
Read By Sharynne Durbidge
In Flanders’ Field
In Flanders’ Field, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The Larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders’ Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The Torch; be yours to hold it high,
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders’ Fields.
Order of Wreath Laying
Read by MC
Tracey Gilmartin – Yandina-Eumundi RSL
Andy Fermo – Middle East conflicts
Malcolm Gray – National Servicemen
Sharynne Durbidge – Service Women
Stuart Hampstead – 6RAR
Barry Stevenson – Vietnam Veterans
Jennifer Crane – Sunshine Coast Women Veterans Network
Sue Nelson – 2/12 & Rats of Tobruk
Cr David Law – Sunshine Coast Council
Peter Hall – Baptist Church
Members of the Public
Prayer/Benediction — Chaplain Peter Hall
National Anthem — The Doo Woop Dolls
Advance Australia Fair
By John McCrae.
The ceremony ends with the playing of the National Anthem.
“Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our land is girt by sea.
Our land abound in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history’s page let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.”
Service is concluded by the President.
All attending are thanked for paying their respects with us today and welcomed to stay for a drink. A complimentary light lunch is available for those veterans wearing medals and our volunteers. A donation is requested for lunch for all other attendees.
The live-streaming of this event is Proudly Supported by the Sunshine Coast Council’s grants program. We sincerely thank Cr David Law for his support with bringing this service to the community via technology.
