I
remembered
2011 anzac
commemorations
DAWN
SERVICE
PROGRAMME
4.30am Veterans assemble in the underground car park at the south east side
of Auckland War Memorial Museum
5.30am
City of Auckland Pipe Band start playing on the Court of Honour
5.45am Official party take their place on the Court of Honour
5.50am Veterans begin marching from east side of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
6am Dawn Service begins
Veterans march onto the Court of Honour
Hymn – ‘Abide with Me’, page 3
led by Salvation Army Auckland City Band and the Auckland Youth Choir
Prayers will be offered by Navy Chaplain, Peter Olds
Hymn – ‘The Recessional’ (Lest We Forget), page 3
6.10am ANZAC dedication by His Worship the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Len Brown
Please repeat after His Worship the Mayor “We will remember them”
His Worship the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Len Brown, will place upon the Cenotaph a
wreath in memory of all fallen servicemen, servicewomen and all who served
The Last Post
Flags lowered, lights out, one minute silence
The Ode
Read in Maori by John Barrett, President of Ex-Vietnam Services Association
Read in English by Toni Millar, Veteran’s daughter
Reveille
The sounding of Reveille at this service proclaims our belief that the ANZAC
landing at Gallipoli was the dawn of the nationhood of New Zealand and Australia
Flags up, lights up
Hymn – ‘Poppy & Pohutukawa’, page 3
uring the singing of the hymn, the Gullery family, accompanied by a New Zealand
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and a Turkish student, will plant a cross in the Field of Remembrance
The Australian National Anthem, page 4
The New Zealand National Anthem, page 4
Benediction by Navy Chaplain, Peter Olds
6.30am
RNZAF fly-past
Veterans march off
All are requested to remain in their place until the last of the parade and the official
party have left the Cenotaph
The Orakei RSA cordially invites veterans and their families to the clubrooms on
Orakei Rd for refreshments
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Abide With Me
Poppy & PohutUkawa
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.
From Flanders fields where poppies grew;
The seeds of our young nation flew
Up from that blood-soaked foreign soil;
Borne on the winds of world turmoil
And settled halfway round the Earth;
To forge our nation at its birth
Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see —
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
(Chorus)
And yet in Flanders poppies sigh
While our young men lie still nearby;
Who gave their lives that we may be
Forever safe, forever free;
In the land of the Pohutukawa tree
I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;
Where is death’s sting?
Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.
Since then in growing nationhood
Our warriors have proudly stood;
Many times in foreign lands
Cradling freedom in their hands;
On land, in sky and on the sea
Shaping our identity
Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and
point me to the skies;
Heav’n’s morning breaks, and
earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
(Chorus)
And thus our history has been told
How will our future now unfold;
Should we be called in peace and war
To play our part as those before;
Whose memories rest in Tane’s bowers
Of red Pohutukawa flowers
HYMN – The Recessional
(Lest We Forget )
God of our fathers, known of old
Lord of our far-flung battle-line.
Beneath Whose awful hand we hold,
Dominion over palm and pine —
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget — lest we forget!
(Chorus)
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire;
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget — lest we forget!
The tumult and shouting dies;
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice
A humble and contrite heart
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget — lest we forget.
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National Anthem of
Australia
National Anthem OF
NEW ZEALAND
Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
E Ihowā Atua,
O ngā iwi mātou rā
āta whakarongona;
Me aroha noa
Kia hua ko te pai;
Kia tau tō atawhai;
Manaakitia mai
Aotearoa.
God of Nations at Thy feet,
In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free land.
Guard Pacific’s triple star
From the shafts of strife and war,
Make her praises heard afar
God defend New Zealand.
Beneath our radiant Southern Cross
We’ll toil with hearts and hands;
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands;
For those who’ve come across the seas
We’ve boundless plains to share
With courage let us all combine
To Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
Dawn Service Officials
Parade Commander:
Mike Gullery
Padre:
Royal NZ Navy Chaplain, Peter Olds
Ensign Party:
No. 3 Auckland City, ATC Squadron, Andrew Horst
Bands:
Salvation Army Auckland City Band, Mark Christiansen
City of Auckland Pipe Band, Robert Halliday
Choir: Auckland Youth Choir
Assembly Area Parking: 3 Auckland North RNZIR, Auckland City Parks & NZ Police
Catafalque Party:
WO1 Roderick Hickling
Commentator:
Chris Mullane
Parade Coordinator:
Dez Harrison
The EVSA acknowledges the support of Auckland Council and Auckland RSA
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“ Women who stepped
up were measured as
citizens of the nation,
not as women . . . this
was a people’s war and
everyone was in it”
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby
I
remembered
women in war
They served their country on the frontline
and on the homefront. They joined the ranks
of the naval services, the airforce, the army.
They worked on the farms and in the factories.
They held together the families left behind
and waited to welcome their loved ones home.
They mourned the lost. In 2011 Auckland War
Memorial Museum commemorates the
women of World War II.
Sylvia Smith
English War Bride
“It seems rather strange writing
to someone I have never seen.”
arranged for Leicester to come and visit
the Walkers.
These were Sylvia Walker’s first words
in a letter to the RNZAF pilot she
would later marry. During WWII
Sylvia’s family, like many others, saw
it as their duty to look after the men
who had travelled across the world – far
away from their own family and friends
– to fight the war for “their cause”.
Waiting on the train platform with
her father, Sylvia wasn’t confident
they would find Leicester among the
crowd of 300 airmen until she saw
a boy with a wide grin approaching.
He introduced himself to her father,
shook hands and turned to her.
“He said ‘This is Sylvia’ and he pecked
me on the cheek. And the minute he
touched me, we both knew instantly
that our lives were entwined.”
After several months of letters and
proposed meetings, a time was finally
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Gladys Wasmuth
Leading Aircraftwoman, Royal Air Force
Work in a munitions factory or a role
with the British forces? That was the
choice facing eighteen-year-old office
worker Gladys Wasmuth in 1940.
Later she would type out the lists detailing
the operational training unit and the night
missions the recruits had been assigned to.
“I’ll never forget those boys’ faces, always
smiling when they came in, their lovely
shining eyes, eager to get cracking.”
She opted for the forces and after a series
of interviews and tests she was taken from
her home in East London, via a training
camp in Gloucester, and assigned to the
RAF station in Kinloss, Scotland.
The night before a training mission
they would take the boys out, for a bit
of a send-off and to keep their mind
off it. “Even on the practice runs one
of them wouldn’t come back. We felt
sad but we didn’t talk about it.”
In a small office with one other woman,
Gladys’ touch typing skills were put to use
creating the records for the new recruits –
name, role, address, religion, next of kin.
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Norah Hamblin
Captain, New Zealand Army Nursing Service
By the time she was accepted into the
New Zealand Army Nursing Service
Norah Hamblin had made three
unsuccessful attempts to join. A skilled
nurse her midwifery skills were needed at
home as part of the essential services
required to keep the country running.
The war was officially over when Norah
reached England aboard the hospital ship
Maunganui but on the voyage they called in
to pick up Prisoners of War and families
imprisoned during the war.
In 1946 Norah travelled to Japan where
she nursed the J Force Battalion.
During her service she confronted snakes
and long, dark walks at night to get
medical supplies but she was left with a
lasting love of travel, visiting Africa more
than ten times and spending a year
nursing in India.
In early 1945 after another frustrated
attempt to join the war effort Norah asked
her father to intervene, her matron was
overruled and she was accepted to the
New Zealand Army Nursing Service.
“I wanted to be an army nurse, I wanted
to serve.”
Norah left the NZ Army in November
1947 with the rank of Captain.
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Shirley Torrie
Farmhand
Shirley Torrie (nee Hillyard) was born and
bred in Gisborne and was a young woman
when WWII broke out. Having finished
school she was working in a fashion store
in town when she received notice from
the authorities to make herself available
for two months each year to help in the
war effort.
Shirley was despatched to look after the
couple’s twin boys and help ensure the
cattle station ran smoothly and remained
in full production. A further two-month
stint the following year was cancelled
when Germany and Japan surrendered in
1945, putting an end to WWII.
Throughout much of the war Shirley
wrote on a daily basis to a local man called
Geoffrey Torrie, the son of her parent’s
friends. Replies arrived by telegram.
When he returned home romance
blossomed and within three months
Shirley and Geoffrey were engaged.
Her father, who ran a garage selling cars
and tractors, mentioned this to a farming
client who said he needed assistance.
His wife was pregnant again and unwell.
The family urgently needed domestic help.
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war memorial
season 2011
illuminate: Women in war
curated by Gaylene Preston
jay M. winter lecture:
the lost generation
Fri 22, Sat 23, Sun 24 April, 7.30pm – 10pm
thurs, 5 may, 6.30pm
Renowned filmmaker Gaylene Preston has curated
25 minutes of archival footage portraying the
women of WWII. The film will be continuously
projected onto the Museum’s northern façade.
Northern Façade. Free.
Yale University Professor Jay M Winter discusses
“The Lost Generation” and the legacy of the
thousands of men who lost their lives in the Great
War. Winter is a Seelye Charitable Trust Fellow.
Maori Court. $20. www.lateatthemuseum.com
mr. JOnes’ wives:
war brides of new zealand
servicemen
auckland northland
battalion beat retreat
opens 15 april
Mr. Jones’ Wives tells the stories of the
thousands of women who came to New Zealand
in the wake of WWII to begin a new life with the
servicemen they had married.
Pictorial Gallery. Free
fri 20 may, 4.30pm
Auckland Northland Battalion will perform a Beat
Retreat, a traditional military ceremony historically
used to recall nearby patrolling units to their castle.
Court of Honour. Free
For full details on the War Memorial Season visit www.aucklandmuseum.com/anzac
To sign the Digital Book of Remembrance visit www.aucklandmuseum.com/?t=1404
ANZAC Day programme, 25 april
6am
Dawn Commemorative Service, Court of Honour
6.45am
Museum opens to the public
6.45am – 5pm
Research the Cenotaph Database, Armoury Information Centre
Slideshows from the Collections, Information Centres
Digital Book of Remembrance, Grand Foyer and Atrium
6.45am – 10am
Identification of medals and badges, Armoury Information Centre
7.30am & 9.30am
Performance by the Auckland Youth Choir, World War I Sanctuary
11am
Civic Commemorative Service, Court of Honour
Noon, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm Unaccompanied Minors, 40-minute children’s programme, Atrium
Noon – 4.30pm
Kids’ Poppy Making, Stevenson Discovery Centre
Noon – 4.30pm
Identification of medals and badges, Armoury Information Centre
12.30pm
M*lasses sing the songs of the Andrews Sisters, Atrium
1pmLest We Forget Poetry Competition: Straight from the Heart
finalist readings, Hall of Memories
ANZAC Day tours
Tours leave from the Museum Armoury on Level 2
7.30am
World War I, World War II, Sir Keith Park, The Home Front
8.30am
World War I, World War II, Sir Keith Park, The Home Front
9.30am
World War I, World War II, Monte Cassino, Planes in museum
12.30pm
World War I, World War II, Boer War, Planes in museum
1.30pm
World War I, World War II, Boer War, Planes in museum
2.30pm
World War I, World War II, Sir Keith Park, Monte Cassino
3.30pm
World War I, World War II, Planes in museum