Roy Holmes talks to the big crowd at Wellington's dawn service
The president of the Wellington sub branch of the RSL Peter Dowell has told one of the biggest crowds seen at a dawn service fathers, brothers, sons went to war on this day in 1915.
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‘’Our own WG Brennan was killed in action there and he along 136 men are on the cenotaph and we remember and honour them today’’
‘’They were ordinary men who did extraordinary things. They will always be in our mind.’’
‘’We will never forget them’’
Peter Dowell talks to the crowd at dawn in Wellington
Wellington sub branch vice president Roy Holmes said the men who went into battle showed great courage, determination, mateship.
‘’They set the standard for generations to follow’’
‘’That day and what followed brought people together forever’’
