LibGuides: World War I: Commemoration

Commemoration at the Australian War Memorial

Many a man lying out there at Pozières or in the low scrub at Gallipoli, with his poor tired senses barely working through the fever of his brain, has thought in his last moments: “Well – well – it's over; but in Australia they will be proud of this.”

Charles Bean, 1918

The Last Post ceremony
At the end of each day, commencing at 4.55 pm AEST, the Memorial farewells visitors with its moving Last Post Ceremony. The ceremony begins with the singing of the Australian National Anthem, followed by the poignant strains of a lament, played by a piper.
Last Post ceremony footage
Roll of Honour
Laying of wreaths
The recitation (including the Ode)
A period of silence
The Rouse and the Reveille
Red poppies
Reversed arms
The Unknown Soldier
The lone charger
Rosemary
Flags at half mast

Literature

'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae
'For the fallen' by Laurence Binyon
Break of day by Isaac Rosenberg
Audio: ABC Radio National
World War One poetry read by the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove, artist Wendy Sharpe, former Governor-General Dame Quentin Bryce, writer and translator Linda Jaivin, playwright and opera director Michael Gow, Director of the Australian War Memorial Brendan Nelson, poet Les Murray, social activist Eva Cox, Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director of the Queensland Theatre Company, and 2011 Australian War Artist Ben Quilty.

ANZAC Day

How Anzac Day came to occupy a sacred place in Australians’ hearts
Article for "The Conversation" written by Carolyn Holbrook, Alfred Deakin Research Fellow, Deakin University.
Comment: Anzac Day for respecting veterans, not questioning their service
SBS opinion piece written by Kerrie Armstrong.
Anzac Day: Indigenous soldiers thought 'when we got back we'd be treated differently'
Often shunned by an Australian society that did not recognise their service, today Indigenous veterans have led the national Anzac Day march for the first time. Written by ABC Correspondent Bridget Brennan.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied: ABC can't sweep presenter's Anzac Day controversy under the carpet, Joyce says
ABC news article in which Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce takes exception to a comment posted on Twitter [& later removed] by ABC presenter Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
Lest we forget and selective national memory
Written by Stan Grant, ABC News, 8 April 2017