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AMIDST the mist, thousands mingled around the Ballarat Cenotaph as dawn approached.
Then, as the service party mounted the Cenotaph, the sound of the crowd dwindled to a dull murmur.
It is 98 years since the events that happened at Gallipoli on the Turkish coastline that established Anzac legend. While the numbers of veterans of that campaign and others of World War II have dwindled, new generations of Australians attend the dawn service each year to honour the fallen. Read more.
HUNDREDS of faces of young, old and everyone in between attended today's ANZAC Day parade in Creswick.
Creswick RSL president Michael Clark said that this year's turnout had been, "magic". Read more.
THE PRIDE shining from Hank Daniel's face was easy to see at this morning's Anzac Day service in Beaufort.
A World War II digger, April 25 has always held a special place in Mr Daniel's heart, yet today even more so.
He was there watching his daughter, Warrant Officer Kim Owen, give a moving speech to more than 250 people who turned out at Beaufort's memorial garden. Read more.
ONE of the great things about Anzac Day is that Australians stop to celebrate it no matter where they are.
Understandably, huge crowds flock to services in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne, but regional cities and small towns turn out with just as much fervour to their own intimate ceremonies. Read more.
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SMYTHESDALE'S Karyn Kelly doesn't know how she writes her poetry.
"The words are just always there, saying what I want to say," Ms Kelly said.
"My poems always come from my heart."
So far, Ms Kelly has only written for family and friends but recently recited her "Lure of the Bush", about a two week high country trek, at Corryong's Man from Snowy River Bush Festival.
"That was pretty nerve wracking."
But when Ms Kelly's son, Private Aaron Ford, was told he was being deployed to Afghanistan sometime in the next six weeks, she wanted to commemorate the event. Read more
HARRY Augustine, 13, is proud to have the same nickname as his great-grandfather and well-known Ballarat publican, George “Auge” Augustine.
And the St Patrick’s College year 7 student would love to get to the bottom of the wartime mystery surrounding the elder Auge after stumbling across a clue while helping clean up his great-grandfather’s personal papers. Read more
Norman ‘Norm’ Jones loves Ballarat.
The 90-year-old grew up here, fishing in Lake Wendouree and running around the yard at Urquhart Street State School in the 1930s.
Then in 1941, aged 18, Norm told a little fib and his life changed forever. Read more
It’s been the subjects of assignments, essays and projects throughout their school lives, but today a group of Ballarat Grammar students will reflect on a battlefield they know from more than just their textbooks.
At the school’s Anzac service yesterday, students who had visited Gallipoli spoke of their experience, describing the feeling of being at Anzac Cove, at Lone Pine and other sites as spiritual. Read more
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