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Old 26th April 2008 | 11:44
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Yes and particularly invigorating was the first ANZAC service at Villers-Bretonneux this year. Two links attached below. I will go to that one day and Gallipoli.

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/conte...7/s2227907.htm

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2008/04/25/2227826.htm

I didn't get to see much of it this year but certainly enjoyed watching Keith Payne VC, with his comments at the Currumbin beach (qld) service. Keith suggested that the more kids that attended the ANZAC sevices, then the more thought via the youth of today, there would be put into learning from the errors of the past where these great conflicts occurred.

Currently slowly devouring a book by Chester Wilmot, "Tobruk 1941". An excellent read, and description of the Diggers and Tommys with their valient defense of that outpost.

He suggests that the word "Digger" was coined from General Sir Ian Hamilton's instructions to General Birdwood to "Dig, dig dig' after they had landed at gallipoli and were pinned down. bit of trivia.
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