WA: Albany service above where first troop convoy assembled

AAP General News (Australia)
04-25-2010
WA: Albany service above where first troop convoy assembled

On a hilltop overlooking waters where the first convoy assembled to take diggers to
the Great War .. thousands of residents of the West Australian city of Albany gathered
for the Anzac Day dawn service.

The service holds extra significance for the people of Albany because the city .. in
WA's south .. lays claim to holding the first dawn service in Australia, on April 25 ..

1930.

Eighty years on .. Albany residents gathered in the dark at the Desert Mounted Corps
Memorial near the top of Mount Clarence for the 5.30am (WST) service.

After the laying of the wreaths under the corps statue of diggers and horses .. the
crowd was asked to look out onto King George Sound where a flare went up to mark the laying
of a wreath upon the waters.

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KEYWORD: ANZAC ALBANY (ALBANY)

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