RSL Sub Branch Chaplain Reverend Bill Green suggests way to keep Anzac Day relevant for the next 100 years at Taree dawn service

April 26 2017 - 1:00pm
The need to remember the ‘ordinary people’
The need to remember the ‘ordinary people’

Did you know the tradition of the dawn service began in Western Australia by an unassuming priest in 1923? And in a small cemetery just outside Herberton, North Queensland, is a marker beside a grave that says, ‘Here … lies the grave of the late Reverend Arthur Ernest White, a Church of England clergyman and padre, 44th Battalion, First Australian Imperial Force. On April 25, 1923 at Albany in Western Australia, the Reverend White led the first ever observance of a dawn parade on Anzac Day.’

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