This November 11 is 105 years since armistice was called after more than four years of warfare, marking the end to the First World War.
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People can commemorate Remembrance Day at services across the region.
Bowral RSL sub-Branch
A service will be held at the Bowral Memorial at 10.40am. Sub Branch member and national serviceman Geoffrey Carr, who served in Vietnam as a member of the Australian Infantry Corps First Division Intelligence Unit in 1969, will speak at the event. The sub-Branch will then move to the Bowral House Nursing Home at 2pm to hold a service for residents.
Members of the sub-Branch will also sell Remembrance Day badges and tokens from 8.30am to 1pm on Bong Bong Street on November 10. Funds raised will be used to fund Anzac and Remembrance Day services and assist veterans and service people in the region.
Mittagong RSL sub-Branch
A service will start at 10.45am at the front of the club at the memorial. It is due to conclude at 11.15am.
Moss Vale RSL sub-Branch
Weather permitting, the service will be held outside at the Moss Vale Services Club's soldiers monument. It will begin at 10.45am and there will be more than 100 veteran bike riders coming into Moss Vale for the service.
Bundanoon RSL sub-Branch
The Southern Villages Memorial is where the service will be held. It will start at 10.40am.
Poppies will be on sale until November 10 at outside the news agency from 8am to 12pm daily.
Berrima
Berrima Public School is organising a service at the Berrima War Memorial in the Market Place. It will start at 10.45am and ends at 11am with a minute's silence.
Exeter
The service will begin at 10.45 at the Exeter Village Hall. There will be tea and coffee afterwards.
What else people can do
For those who are unable to attend local ceremonies, there are still ways to mark the day:
- Have a minute's silence at home at 11am
- Wear a poppy and pay tribute to the fallen
- Make your own Remembrance wreath or poppy
- Take a virtual tour inside the Hall of Memory
- Learn more about the day's history and those who served
- Watch the NSW service via nsw.gov.au, which will be livestreamed from 10.30am and begin at about 10.45am
Do you know of another service? Email Briannah.Devlin@austcommunitymedia.com.au to let us know.
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Briannah Devlin
I like to write about arts, entertainment, any local reality tv leads, and property for the Southern Highland News and Goulburn Post, but also report on everything in between. If you have any tips, please send them to Briannah.Devlin@austcommunitymedia.com.au, or call 0439142204.
I like to write about arts, entertainment, any local reality tv leads, and property for the Southern Highland News and Goulburn Post, but also report on everything in between. If you have any tips, please send them to Briannah.Devlin@austcommunitymedia.com.au, or call 0439142204.
