ANZAC DAY.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1921, Page 1

ANZAC DAY.

(by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. TRIBUTE TO THE FALLEN. SERVICES IN ENGLAND. LONDON, April 25. The “Australian” states that the Red Cross Society, Australian Soldiers’ Club, and soldiers’ relatives put wreaths on the Cenotaph on Anzac Day. Canon Wise, of South Australia, conducted the service at St Clements’ Danes in the Strand. A crowded congregation included Sir lan Hamilton, General Godley, Commonwealth State officials, many Australian soldiers and relatives of soldiers. Canon Wise’s address was based on the text “By love, serve one another.” “There were,” he said, “two outstanding reasons why Australians responded to the Empire’s call. Firstly, the love of adventure, which is the Australasian characteristic, inherited from the pioneers and explorer; the second, was an intense personal love of England which was greater than loyalty.” The congregation stood while the organist played Chopin’s Funeral March and the Hallelujah Chorus. Canon Wise announced that Sir Jas. Allen would place a wreath on the Cenotaph on behalf of the parishioners. The annual pilgrimage to the United Kingdom cemeteries was carried out on an extensive scale. Mr Sharp, organiser of the pilgrimage, received many touching letters from correspondents who undertook to attend to the graves regularly. Flowers were placed on 74 graves at Cannock Chase (Staffordshire). Mr G. Smith, on behalf of himself, of the Australian cricket team, placed a wreath on the Cenotaph inscribed “In grateful remembrance of those who died that we might live.” (The cemetery at Cannock Chase is a military cemetery, adjacent to Brocton Camp and between Stafford and Hednesford. The New Zealand Rifle Brigade bad their base at Brocton).