Mayor's Weekly Message
Remembrance Day
8 Nov 2013
It is again my privilege to lead Manly Council Remembrance Day Ceremony, being held this year at the Manly War Memorial at the corner of Belgrave Street and The Co
rso from 10.45am on Monday 11 November. [NOTE: due to inclement weather, the Manly Council Remembrance Day Ceremony was moved to St Matthews Anglican Church , corner of Darley Road and The Corso, Manly ]
Remembrance Day commemorates the Armistice which formally concluded hostilities in World War One, the ceasefire taking effect at 11.00am on 11 November, 1918.
Manly Council’s 2013 Remembrance Day Ceremony will this year involve up to 25 separate organisations participating in an official wreath-laying followed by an opportunity for the general public to lay private tributes on behalf of the 482 men and women whose names are engraved on the monument.
The Manly Council Remembrance Day Ceremony is a civic occasion and all members of the community are invited to attend.
As part of the commemorative service, Lauren Clark, Vice Captain, Mackellar Girls Campus, will recite the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae after the Second Battle of Ypres.
Vocalist Embla Bishop will sing the National Anthem as well as two songs, ‘Abide with me’ and ‘You’ll never walk alone’.
The Last Post will be played by Bugler David Watts. The catafalque party will be provided by HMAS Penguin. The Reverend Graham Perry will be the Master of Ceremonies.
Those attending are asked to be seated by 10.40am.
One of Manly’s most beautiful pieces of built heritage, the Manly War Memorial was the gift in 1916 of Mark Mitchell and his family.
Their son, Alan David Mitchell, was among the earliest soldiers from Manly to die in World War One.
Built of fine-grained trachyte stone, the memorial was designed by Burcham Clamp, one of Australia’s most highly regarded early twentieth-century architects and who designed some of Sydney’s best known buildings including ‘Wyoming’ in Macquarie Street and St Matthews Church in The Corso.
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Jean Hay AM
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