Anzac Day 2009.

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Some of the wreaths placed in remembrance of all Australia's men and women who served their country in times of conflict from WW1 to this year, the 10th anniversary of INTERFET (East Timor).
Leading the march from the Aleppo Pine. On the left diggers from WW2 and Vietnam, Dru Mackieson & Jeff McCole and Clive Norfolk, sailor during the Malayan Campaign. Next in line Cr. Peter Neal wearing the decorations of his uncles who fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
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View of the Avenue prior to the ceremony. The rolls of honour proudly displayed on the day are usually housed in the Buchan School. The poster fixed on the right hand gate has a number of photos of the Australian war cemetery in French town Villers-Bretonneux where the community have contributed to the rebuilding of a Victorian school destroyed in the recent bushfires.
Cr. Peter Neal, our guest speaker and representative of the EG Shire Council.
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Melva Woodgate and helpers laying wreaths.
The May edition of the Buchan Bulletin covered the Anzac Day commemoration and reported, in part, as follows: Locals and visitors gathered at the Avenue of Honour to remember those in the district who have served in all conflicts, and in particular, those who did not come home. The service began with a walk from the Aleppo Pine at the end of the Avenue to the front gates under the dappled light of the old oaks planted by residents of Buchan South in the early 1920s.
Zillah Norfolk, President of the Friends of the Avenue of Honour, opened the proceedings and provided an overview of the improvements that have occurred since the Remembrance Day Ceremony in November 2008. Of significance were the Commemorative Seats that have been installed by Jamie Houghton, and paid for by various families as well as a small grant that has been received. These will eventually have commemorative plaques put on them.

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