A.N.Z.A.C Remembrance Ceremony Summary

A.N.Z.A.C Remembrance Ceremony Summary

Today I learnt that being in the Army is very intense. Lieutenant Geoffrey Cox one of the soldiers who fought in Northern Ireland came to our school for our Anzac remembrance ceremony, which was held in front of our school. After that all the classes had to put down a cross to remember the soldiers that fought in World War I & II. Lieutenant Geoffrey said some words and some of them were “ 10 soldiers would go to war 3 will die 6, would be wounded & 1 would come back with no injuries.”

Later on as Lieutenant Geoffrey Cox was saying some of the poem Lest we Forget by Laurence Binyon we had to repeat after him, “They shall grow not , 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.” that poem was written on September 1914.

Then we played the last post and stood quietly as it was happening. When it was finished we had to go back to our class, but rooms 7,9 & 10 had to go to the hall and ask Lieutenant Geoffrey some questions.

We asked him many questions and then headed off back to class.