Keeping the Flag Flying...

Keeping the Flag Flying...

Wednesday 24 April 2013

ANZAC Day 2013 in Greece...Lest we Forget



Lest we forget....


They shall grow not old....as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,

We will remember them,We will remember them...

Australia New Zealand Army Corps


Lest we forget....



The Australian Embassy has invited New Zealanders and Australians and friends of both countries to attend the ANZAC Day Commemorative Celebrations

on

Thursday 25 April 2013, 11.00 a.m.

at

The Commonwealth War Cemetery

in

Alimos

(Posidonos Avenue and Ethnarhou Makariou Street)

Let's all be there, as we are every year, to honour the memory of those valiant young men who came to the other side of the world to fight , not just in World War I but in World War II as well, so that we could be free.




Hellenic New Zealand Association,
Athens, Greece

We who to clothe Hellas in freedom fought,
Lie here at rest in praise that fadeth not...




  Official representatives line up to lay wreaths 
in memory of those who fell in Greece 
in the course of duty ...

ANZAC Day
Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War, and is held every year on April 25th around the world. Read more



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