Warm weather returned on Monday after a bleak weekend for Remembrance ay, which saw services well attended across the region to remember those who served their country in war.
The day marked 101 years since the end of World War I.
Among the services held across Far East Gippsland were those held at Orbost Secondary College, the Orbost Cenotaph, and in Mallacoota.
Orbost Secondary College held its Remembrance Day service on the front steps of the school, where principal, Peter Seal, said “the major focus of Remembrance
Day is respect, which aligns with one of our school values, respect, and today we make sure we pay respect to those who have gone before us”.
About 30 people attended the Remembrance service in Mallacoota where RSL president, Mark Tregellas, spoke about the Mallacoota RSL Ladies Auxiliary, which has recently folded, the local RSL also reaching the point where it too may no longer be a viable entity soon with age and health issues taking its toll on veterans.
He recommended the film, Danger Close, a movie about the battle of Long Tan, to anyone who wanted to understand what the Vietnam War was about.
For centuries soldiers have used poetry to describe the horrors of war. It continued in Mallacoota where year eight student, Emily Tregellas, read Knackered, by Colin Mitchell, a modern day war poet who served in Iraq for British forces.
PICTURED: Mallacoota RSL Ladies Auxillary members, Birgit Janneson and Ann Thoroughgood, Mallacoota RSL president, Mark Tregellas, Mallacoota P-12 student, Emily Tregellas, and Reverend Jude Benton were among those to honour the services of Australian men, women and animals in war at the Remembrance Day service in Mallacoota.
