A farewell from ANZA - KZN to Chris and Pippa Wilson

Farewell to Chris and Pippa:

1. Hi Chris and Pippa Both Loraine and I will miss you both dearly. This is not farewell as such it is just "Au Revoir". Please keep in touch as members WILL be interested in your adventures etc. 

One couple we know from Durban who have a daughter in Perth, another in England and a son in Nyassaland migrated to Australia, worked for a while and have spent the best part of the last 9 or so years travelling across and around Australia. George and Lea Begg have a blogspot "Australian Odyssey - A long journey throughout Australia. Started 2006 and updated monthly Worth a look as it has had 20000 visits. Site address follows

 http://grey-nomads.blogspot.co.za/ 

Their son Keith has 3 sites listed down on the right side of George's site. Once you have settled in I will send you an invite as an author on anzakzn. You can then simply post any story whenever you like. Best wishes to you both. You will be missed. 

Andy and Loraine
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Dear Chris & Pippa

Wishing you both all the very best on your new chapter that is opening up for you. New Zealand is calling you home
Lots of love Bon Voyage

Tish. Xxx

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Australia's Memorial Walk

Whilst visiting Australia recently for a family reunion and birthday celebrations, Kraft and Pam von Aulock visited the relatively new "Australia's Memorial Walk" situated on North Head overlooking the Sydney Harbour.

Just a few images follow.

 






Click on an image to Zoom in.

Try the website  http://artilleryhistory.org/memorial_walk.html  
The website is relatively new though it contains lots of images and information on what artillery  was used where including the Boer War and Gallipoli.

New Entry Travel requirements if travelling to Europe supplied by Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade

* Europe: Entry Requirements : Schengen Convention
  http://smartraveller.gov.au/bulletins/europe_schengen

My simple solution: If you are comfortable where are at present stay there!

AGM 2015 (continued)

Sunday's AGM was something special. Our 80th anniversary. It was held at the Royal Durban Yacht Club on the edge of the harbour. We have had our AGM here for several successive years and the buffet lunch has been something very special.

The meeting ran smoothly and there were no nominations other than existing members and as such no change though Chris Wilson has resigned due to his imminent departure to New Zealand.

Chris was our last President who really worked hard to help make ANZA such a great place to hang out in Durban.

We wish Chris and Pippa a safe trip and the very best for their future in the Land of the Long White Cloud.

Every year ANZA donates funds to a charity that is chosen out of a short list of possible recipients.

This year the committee chose the Durban branch of CHOC.
Special Guests today were Bobby Freeman( Regimental Sergeant  Major, Natal Mounted rifles and his wife Pat  and Agie Govender, Regional Manager of CHOC.

Australian Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Travel advisory

Due to events around the world the current advisory is quite large and has much reference to France.

To view click on following link:

http://smartraveller.gov.au/countries/france

AGM 2015

This is the last event of the year!   Click on "FUTURE EVENTS" for details.
We needs numbers for catering.

You can book by phoning Eleanor Brosnihan, our Chairman, on 072 156 6097 or Andy Tribe on 073 808 9986 ASAP.

Remembrance Day 11th November 2015

ANZA will be placing a wreath at the remembrance day event on Sunday 8th of November at the Durban Cenotaph.


From: Rick Andriés [mailto:rick@durbs.com]
Sent: 03 November 2015 09:25 PM
Subject: Wearing the Poppy

"Fellow Legionnaires & friends of the Legion.
If you’re already doing so, that’s great… but in case not, please may I remind you that, wherever practical, you’re expected to “Wear your Poppy with Pride”, daily at least until Remembrance Day - i.e. Wednesday, November 11th.
Kindly refer to the attached story of the Poppy, which I’m sure you’ll find of some interest.
Thank you.
Regards,
Rick
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

HOW ‘THE FLOWER OF FORGETFULNESS’
BECAME ‘THE FLOWER OF REMEMBRANCE’

History relates that out of the land of the white poppy, came Genghis Khan in the wake of the Great Khan’s bloodthirsty warriors, wherever the blood of man was spilled, the seeds of the “flower of forgetfulness” (the opium poppy) budded in full flower.

Now, huge transformation has turned blood red and in the center of each flower was outlined a cross, as though Nature herself was crying in protest at the wanton slaughter during both world wars.  On battlefields which before had been bare wastes, there sprang up the poppy, it’s symbol carpeting the graves of men who died.

Capt John McCrae, a Canadian medical officer, experienced the carnage and destruction of the First World War on the Western Front.  Torn by the misery of war and confronted with the dead and wounded being part of his everyday life as a surgeon, he wrote his celebrated poem “In Flanders Fields”.  This poem bought him fame in and beyond the British Empire.  This poem was written on 3 May 1915 on a slip of paper from his dispatch book:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe;

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch, be yours to hold it high

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields

This poem was published by “Punch” anonymously on 8 December 1915.  It was a success and soldiers copied it, quoted it and discussed it in the trenches.  The poem became a source of strength and determination.

Why did this poem have such an impact on soldiers and later military veterans?