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Welcome to our 2018 Anzac Day guide.
The Bendigo Advertiser will be covering several marches and services live today, for those who can’t make it.
Follow along on our Facebook page, or check this page for updates throughout the day.
Live services
Bendigo dawn service
Eaglehawk service
Axedale service
Castlemaine service
Huntly service
Kangaroo Flat service
March
Service
Goornong service
Bendigo march and morning service
Part two
Maldon service
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Anzac Day 2018 service guide
City of Greater Bendigo
Dawn services
Bendigo: 5.50am march from the Soldiers Memorial Institute, Pall Mall to the Cenotaph, View Point. Service commences at 6am.
Eaglehawk: 6am Brassey Square, Eaglehawk Road - form up at the Memorial.
Elmore: 6am Railway Place, Elmore.
Goornong: Dawn Service.
Heathcote: 6am Lone Pine memorial at Camp Hill.
Kangaroo Flat: 6.30am Soldiers Memorial, High Street - form up at the Memorial.
Woodvale: 6am Woodvale Community Hall.
Morning marches and services
Axedale: 8.30am Axedale Park, High Street, Axedale.
Bendigo: 10.30am march from McCrae Street/Pall Mall to the Soldiers Memorial Institute for the 11am service to commence on the forecourt of the Soldiers Memorial Institute.
Eaglehawk: 8.20am march from Peg Leg Road to Brassey Square for the 8.30am service to commence at Brassey Square.
Elmore: 10am march begins at Railway Place and finishes at Elmore Memorial Hall for the service.
Goornong: 10.30am Soldiers Memorial Hall, Midland Highway, Goornong.
Heathcote: 10am commencing in the Heathcote RSL Hall followed by the wreath laying service at the Cenotaph, then finishing with the march along High Street.
Huntly: 9am march and service at the Garden of Remembrance. When the service concludes there will be refreshments served in the Huntly Memorial Hall.
Kangaroo Flat: 9.20am march from Station Street at St Monica's School to the Soldiers Memorial for the service to commence at 9.30am.
Loddon Shire
Boort: 9am march from the Soldiers Memorial for a wreath laying ceremony at 9.15am with a service commencing at 9.30 at the Memorial Hall.
Bridgewater: 6am service at the Bridgewater Memorial Hall.
Calivil: 10.30am service at the Calivil Hall.
Inglewood: 10.50am day service at the Soldiers Memorial.
Korong Vale: 9am march from Korong Vale Hall.
Mologa: 8am memorial on Jones Lane.
Pyramid Hill: 10.45am service at the Memorial Hall, Pyramid Hill.
Wedderburn: 6.15am Dawn Service at the Soldiers Memorial Park. At 11am march will commence from the RSL to the Soldiers Memorial.
Macedon Ranges
Gisborne: 10.30am for a ceremony at the memorial on Howey Reserve, Hamilton Street.
Kyneton: 6am Dawn Service at the Kyneton Cenotaph. A march will commence at 9.30am on Mollison Streeet.
Lancefield: 8.30am for a ceremony in High Street.
Malmsbury: 8am for a ceremony at the Malmsbury Botanic Gardens.
Mount Macedon: 5.45am at the Mt Macedon Memorial Cross. It has been recommended that you arrive at approximately 5.15am.
Romsey: 7.30am wreath laying service at the Romsey Cenotaph in Main Street.
Woodend: 11.15am march along High Street service road followed by an 11.45am ceremony at the Woodend RSL.
Campaspe Shire
Echuca: Assemble at 5.45am for a 6am Dawn Service at the Echuca Memorial. Assemble at 10.30am on Hare Street for the 10.40am march.
Girgarre/Stanhope: Combined service on Sunday April 22 at 2pm, assemble by 1.45pm.
Girgarre: The Girgarre RSL sub-branch will conduct a Dawn Service on Anzac Day.
Kyabram: 9.45am assemble for the march at 9.50am followed by a service at 10am.
Lockington: 9am march to commence outside Foodworks and will finish at the Community Hall for the service.
Rochester: Assemble at 5.30am for a 6am Dawn Service at the cemetery. The march will commence at 10.45am at the Shire Hall.
Rushworth: 6am Dawn Service at the Cenotaph. There will then be a march commencing at 10am. The Anzac Day service will then follow at 10.30am.
Tongala: 6.30am Dawn Service at the RSL Hall. 9.30am march followed by the annual Service of Commemoration from 10am at the public hall.
Mount Alexander Shire
Castlemaine: 5.30am Dawn Service. Assemble at 8.35am for a 9am commencement for the march.
Maldon: 5.30 assemble for a 5.45 service at the Cenotaph. Assemble at 10.30am at the Cenotaph for the 10.45 march followed by a service at 11am.
Sutton Grange: Assemble at the War Memorial at 11am.
Buloke Shire
Birchip: 10.45am assemble for an 11.00 service.
Charlton: 8.45am at the Cenotaph on High Street.
Donald: 6am Dawn Service. Assemble at 10.45am for an 11am march at Memorial Park.
Sea Lake: 10.30am Main Street, Sea Lake.
Wycheproof: 11am at the Centenary Park Entrance.
Ahead of Anzac Day 2018
Check out these stories from the lead-up to Anzac Day this year:
- Bendigo Senior Secondary College students hear about the sacrifices of war
- New art exhibition at Arnold Street Gallery explores effects of war on loved ones
- Cliff Richards has stepped down as president of the Bendigo District RSL
- 13CABS joins Bendigo Taxis in offering free rides for veterans to local Anzac Day dawn service
How we commemorated Anzac Day in 2017
Photo galleries
Bendigo dawn service
Bendigo march and morning service
Eaglehawk
Castlemaine
Elmore
Kangaroo Flat
Huntly