Dawn Service Anzac Day Sunday

[cdmtdm]

Hi Guys , try again .... anyone have a clue if a Dawn Service is held here on the island to commemorate Anzac Day ??? or the contact for the Australian Embassy Rep here ...

Cheers

[Patong Bob]

I think I answered this a few weeks ago. There is no Dawn Service (who gets up before 11am ?). Diver's Place will hold a service in Surin. Diver's cellphone 01-788-8477, bar 076-271-379.

[cdmtdm]

I think I answered this a few weeks ago. There is no Dawn Service (who gets up before 11am ?). Diver's Place will hold a service in Surin. Diver's cellphone 01-788-8477, bar 076-271-379.

our diggers did and i will ..... a clear lack of respect by the big piss drinking aussies who forget very easily ...... shame shame shame ......

[Patong Bob]

er. I actually served in the Australian Army. I bet you didn't.

I was in the Provost Corps. I bet you don't know what that was.

Good to have you lecture me about diggers.

I was trying to help you.

[NamKangMan]

A search of google shows an Aussie bar owner at the Otop Market held a dawn service last year. There was no info about if this was happening again this year.

I went to the "very large Australian theme bar" on Bangla Road today. I'm sure you all know which one. It was packed, but, no real Anzac theme to the bar. I would have thought this place would have put something on. Maybe not a dawn service (due to 2am closing etc) but, maybe the telecast of the march back in Oz and a buffet lunch with the "ode" read out by an ex-military expat - or something similar. No a huge thing to organise. They have Melbourne Cup Day etc.

I have no problems with having a drink, after formalities, on ANZAC Day. For me, it's similar to a funeral, and then the wake.

[cdmtdm]

er. I actually served in the Australian Army. I bet you didn't.

I was in the Provost Corps. I bet you don't know what that was.

Good to have you lecture me about diggers.

I was trying to help you.

You dont have clue who i am Bob , so dont try and get into a bragging competition ........ your comment about who gets up b4 11 am anyway pissed me off , you of all people should show some respect to your mates and honour them at dawn and then have a drink , after all its only one day of the year !!!! The Provost Corps did a great job by the way ..........or was it a joke you were making ??

[Zpete]

er. I actually served in the Australian Army. I bet you didn't.

I was in the Provost Corps. I bet you don't know what that was.

Good to have you lecture me about diggers.

I was trying to help you.

Forget non armed forces like gold and coal miners.

The original WW1 diggers related to a NZ corp which were used as front line trench "diggers', hence the name.

Obviously, initially it was used in a derogatory sense, but soon became a name used/accepted with "pride'

First DIGGERS were kiwis.

Edit: Provost basically military police, everyone should know that.

[Ping]

Not that it matters one way or the other. but my understanding is that the term was adopted by both Ozzies and Kiwis at around the same time during the Great War, because they were fighting/digging side by side. There seems to be some suggestion that the Kiwis may have used the term more generally at first, but this is unclear and it was certainly attributed to all ANZACs. However, it was the new trapezoidal tank track design (you can thank the Brits for that one, Pete), allowing tanks to breach/cross the enemy trenches, which made a significant contribution to signalling the end of trench warfare and winning the GW. I would have thought that this was a far more important issue than that of who merely coined a term for those God-forsaken fields of slaughter.

[Zpete]

Not that it matters one way or the other. but my understanding is that the term was adopted by both Ozzies and Kiwis at around the same time during the Great War, because they were fighting/digging side by side. There seems to be some suggestion that the Kiwis may have used the term more generally at first, but this is unclear and it was certainly attributed to all ANZACs. However, it was the new trapezoidal tank track design (you can thank the Brits for that one, Pete), allowing tanks to breach/cross the enemy trenches, which made a significant contribution to signalling the end of trench warfare and winning the GW. I would have thought that this was a far more important issue than that of who merely coined a term for those God-forsaken fields of slaughter.

Ping, I dun know , Patong Bob, but he seems to be bit of a presumptive know all.

[Ping]

I see your point Pete, but it depends upon your point of view, I suppose. The positive aspect of this thread is the underlying message from all posters that the ANZAC spirit is as strong as ever with many people. The best I could do was watch the dawn service from Gallipoli on TV (unfortunately, very poorly lit), but there are those in Oz who suggest that ANZAC day is becoming irrelevant.