Three thousand people have attended Doyalson-Wyee RSL Club this morning for the Anzac Day dawn service.
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It was a solemn ceremony held around the Cenotaph.
All of the seats provided for the public were taken, with many opting to stand around the club’s garden and entry steps for a vantage point.
In the requiem, Father Roy Hazlewood, the Doyalson-Wyee RSL sub-Branch chaplain, spoke of the origins of the Anzac tradition.
“On this day, above all days, we remember those who died or suffered in the great tragedy of war,” Father Hazlewood said.
“On the morning of the 25th of April, 1915, Australian and New Zealand troops landed under fire at Gallipoli. It was then, and in the violent campaign that followed, that the Anzac tradition was forged.
“The elements of that tradition have inspired and offered an enduring example to later generations of Australians and New Zealanders.”
The Anzac march at Doyalson will start this morning at 8.30am.