Two footnotes if I may.
Every Armistice/Remembrance Sunday my wife and I wear our lovely silk [?] Australian poppies, purchased on our first of many holidays down under.
T'other is to remark that many [most?] Australian township memorials have complete lists of those who served, with the fatalities distinguished by a small + symbol. This I like, and we would have done well to do the same. As it is, my grandfather's, my father's, and two uncles' service in the wars is uncommemorated anywhere. Yes they survived, but years were stolen from their young lives, and they came home changed men.