'11 Anzac Day dawn service

Well after coming home from our camping trip down Collie way, it was hard to get up the next morning at friggin' 4. Trust me it's always hard to wake kiddies up, when you spend all night getting the little buggers down. But it must be done and it's only once a year, so very carefully I woke up four kiddies in what I called 'operation don't wake up Chase'. Which luckly for your's truly it worked to perfection, and before you could say 'Crikey' I had four little sleepy neviles in the commodore and half way to Perth. The kiddies were very well behaved and so won the chance for an icecream that night, well bribery does work when you only use it now and again.















Again the mob at Perth put on a ripper dawn service and had the most people their then anywhere else in Australia, a massive 40,000 crowd turning up crikey thats a fair few hay. As the crowd thins out we then move in to have a gander at the old War Memorial, and a chance to wonder about and just take in the moment.







The kiddies hanging around the flame of remembrance.









After a little wondering about we found a sight to settle down for our annual 'Anzac Day dawn service breaky', you can't beat a good old aussie ham, chesse, tomato sanga hay.










The War Memorial up close with Jacko as you might have noticed he's stuffed, poor little fella loves he's sleep ins.... won't heart him!







As you can see the little fellas found a former Paul that fought in the Wars, but it's hard to find anything out about him.











Now as you might know from our older posts on Anzac Days we all ways pick a soldier to find something out about, well his year we found this fella Lt Hugo Throssell, a Western Australian farmer, joined the 10th Light Horse at the outbreak of war. He arrived on Gallipoli in August 1915 and survived the regiment’s ill-fated charge at the Nek on 7 August. Throssell was awarded the Victoria Cross for an action on 29–30 August which took place at Hill 60. The 10th Light Horse was brought into an offensive action to extend the front line past Hill 60 in the early hours of the 29th. Throssell and his men became involved in a fierce bomb fight, which continued all night. Throssell was wounded twice but even with his face covered in blood he refused medical help, continuing to shout encouragement to his men. His was the first Victoria Cross awarded to a Western Australian in the war, and the only one to an Australian light horseman. His Citation was for conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during operations on the Hill 60 in the Gallipoli Peninsula on 29th and 30th August 1915.






The kiddies at the Queen Victoria memoral.













And so we come to the end of another Anzac Day dawn service in Kings Park, I got away with leaving Chase at home but maybe next time he might be coming with us. It all depends how many seatbelts we have in the car, and if I can keep him quiet for long enough during the service. But the terrible four did a good job keeping quiet, so their booked in for next year..... if I can get up!