The 2024 Mount Macedon Anzac Day Dawn Service will take place on April 25 at the Mount Macedon Memorial Cross, to acknowledge this year’s theme of Honouring Every Role, Every Sacrifice.
The local community are invited to attend the service, which will showcase the different ways Australians have served, and continue to serve, in wartime, conflict or peacekeeping.
As part of the service, students from local schools will read excerpts from the accounts of local veterans, including 99-year-old Joy Daymon from Woodend North and 102-year old Joyce Strawhorn from Kyneton.
Ms Daymon served as a Flight Mechanic in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Airforce from 1943-1946 and Ms Strawhorn served as a cook, cleaner and ambulance driver during her service.
There will also be a special tribute to late Gisborne-based veteran Robin Funston who had served as a Chief Petty Officer mechanic for the Royal Australian Navy during Vietnam and was a life member of the RSL.
Mount Macedon Anzac Day Dawn Service (MMADDS) Committee president Leona Latcham said this year’s service is expected to be a special one.
“We have found some wonderful stories that show the diverse ways our local veterans have contributed to protecting our country and we really look forward to sharing them with the community on Anzac Day,” she said.
“There’s something so special about the dawn service at the cross- it’s an iconic location that sets a very moving scene for the morning’s proceedings.”
The service commences at 6am and runs for approximately an hour. Free shuttle buses run from Tony Clarke Reserve in Macedon from 4.15am as roads to the cross are shut to public traffic.
Details: www.mtmacedondawnservice.org
