Anzac Day services land in Phuket

The Phuket News

 

Anzac Day services are held at Hellfire Pass on April 25 each year. This year, for the first time ever, Phuket will host its own Dawn Service at the Phuket Yacht Club. Photo: Australian Embassy Bangkok

 

PHUKET: -- The Australian Consulate-General Phuket this year will host the first government-led Anzac Day commemoration service ever to be held in Phuket, on April 25.

 

“Anzac Day is an important day on the calendar for both Aussies and Kiwis. Dawn services are traditional in both countries, as they mark the time of the original landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey to fight with the Allied forces in World War I,” said Craig Ferguson, Australian Consul-General for Phuket and the surrounding provinces.

 

“Over time April 25 has turned into a day that Australians and New Zealanders remember those who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations and the contribution and suffering of all those who have served,” he explained.

 

The Australian Embassy in Bangkok each year holds Anzac Day services in Thailand at Hellfire Pass in Kanchanaburi, where part of the Thai-Burma Railway was constructed by Prisoners of War during World War II. Those services are traditionally led by the Australian Ambassador to Thailand.

 

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Traditionally at Gallipoli, and cemeteries around the world but a yacht club.... bet the Ambassador is pissed he will have to endure the baking heat at Don Rak in Kanchanaburi again!!!

9 hours ago, Grauwulf said:

Traditionally at Gallipoli, and cemeteries around the world but a yacht club.... bet the Ambassador is pissed he will have to endure the baking heat at Don Rak in Kanchanaburi again!!!

Yeah, strange place for it, Phromthep or the likes would have been better IMO.

On ya Mate