We’d love to see your Anzac Day pictures and video - share them with us through our Facebook page, our Snapchat account bgoaddy, by tagging us @BgoAddy on Twitter or by using #bendigoadvertiser on Instagram.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
The uniforms of school students and emergency services mingled with the military garb of defence force personnel during Huntly’s Anzac Day ceremony on Tuesday.
They might only be in primary school, but Jacoby Ah-Dore and Jorja Stone are already well acquainted with the Anzac story: both are descendants of Australian servicemen.
The Epsom primary school pupils were chosen to lay a wreath of remembrance beside the Huntly memorial hall’s cenotaph during morning Anzac Day commemorations.
“We’ve been working on a project about the Anzacs who fought in the war,” Jorja said ahead of the ceremony.
Jacoby’s two grandfathers – Alan Maxwell Pollard and Ernest James Ah-Dore – were both returned to Australia after battle in the Second World War.
“(I think about) all the soldiers who didn’t come home,” he said, when asked what the day meant to him.
The town’s CFA brigade were also spotted in their finery. Captain Tony Jackson - his shoulders decorated with silver epaulets – said the costume added regiment to the ceremony.
“It’s good for our community,” Mr Jackson said of the proceedings.
His father-in-law was a sapper in Papua New Guinea in the Second World War. The man lost an eye in the conflict.
“It’s certainly special to us and our kids,” he said.
Mark Kearney
Journalist. Traveller. Pop culture connoisseur. Mark is passionate about education, the arts and social justice, especially stories affecting the LGBTI community.
Journalist. Traveller. Pop culture connoisseur. Mark is passionate about education, the arts and social justice, especially stories affecting the LGBTI community.
