Anzac Day

First Anzac service for Werrimull

WERRIMULL commemorated Anzac Day in style with a large crowd attending the town’s first ever Dawn Service followed by a march from the Werrimull Hotel to the memorial on the outskirts of town. The events were organised by the Millewa Advisory Group...

29 Apr 2025

Anzac Day

Anzac Day in soldier settler town over the years

ANZAC Day ceremonies in the largest soldier settlement in Australia weren’t always as organised as they are today. The first Anzac Day ceremony in Red Cliffs was held on April 24 in 1921. The town was mostly a tent city at the time, and a service was...

27 Apr 2025

Anzac Day

Marching in Mildura for Anzac Day

HUNDREDS of people lined up along Deakin Avenue on Friday to applaud a parade of veterans, cadets, and servicepeople in commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli. The march preluded the Anzac Day ceremony which...

26 Apr 2025

Anzac Day

Red Cliffs reflects

MORE than 500 people paid their respects at Red Cliffs’ Anzac Day service. Beginning with a march down Jamieson Avenue and the Calder Highway, the procession headed past the cenotaph and through to Barclay Square. This year’s Anzac Day service was...

26 Apr 2025

Anzac Day

Lake PS commemorate Anzac Day

THE Lake Primary School held a commemorative Anzac Day ceremony on Thursday, in front of the school’s new memorial garden. Representatives of the Mildura RSL were invited as special guests, including vice-president Brad McGlashan, secretary Scott...

25 Apr 2025

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School seeks to honour Anzacs

RELATIVES of former The Lake Primary School students who served in World Wars I and II are being encouraged to buy a paver in remembrance of their contribution to the history of the nation and the community. The pavers will be engraved with the...

27 Aug 2024

Bring local Anzac’s body home

A CAMPAIGN has begun to bring the body of an Anzac hero languishing in a Russian mortuary back to Mildura for a military funeral. Wales-born Samuel Pearse came to Mildura as a young boy in the early 1900s, and his story is one that is both heroic...

03 May 2024

Anzac Day

Big turnout for Merbein service

MORE than 350 people paid their respects at Merbein’s Anzac Day parade and ceremony yesterday. There were more marchers than onlookers, as crowds made their way from the Merbein RSL to the band rotunda in Kenny Park for official proceedings. Merbein...

26 Apr 2024

Anzac Day

Thousands turn out for Anzac Day in Mildura

THEY stood in the darkness. Thousands of them, side by side in a show of union and solidarity. This time, however, there was not the sound of gunfire or bullets whistling past them, nor did they need to...

26 Apr 2024

Anzac Day

Veteran Josh Fraser remembers tradition

FOR Mildura veteran Josh Fraser, the importance of Anzac Day is reflected in the excitement his five-year-old son Jax gets from marching alongside his dad every year.“The whole week he will ask, ‘Are we...

26 Apr 2024

Anzac Day

Irymple Anzac Day Service

WITH a march led by the members of the 623 Squadron Air Force Cadets, hundreds of people from Irymple gathered at Henshilwood Reserve on Thursday morning to remember those who served and died for...

26 Apr 2024

Anzac Day

ANZAC Day Times

Find the ANZAC Day times from around Sunraysia and nearby areas here.

24 Apr 2024

Anzac Day

Nurses served with distinction

AN RSL Anzac Day badge this year honours Sister Vivian Bullwinkel, the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre on February 16, 1942. Vivian was born in Kapunda, South Australia, and was educated at Broken Hill where she trained...

24 Apr 2024

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Bright outlook for light project

SUNRAYSIA’S large-scale light installation projects are proceeding “full steam ahead” with spring 2023 remaining locked in as the preferred launch period.

09 Jul 2022