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Diary Notes

Wednesday 19th May 2021
7.45pm: May Progress Association meeting

Saturday 10th July 2021
5.30pm: Skate Night

Membership Contact Meetings

www.mangohillprogress.org/membership Website: www.mangohillprogress.org All local residents are welcome
Family Membership is just $10/year. Email: admin@mangohillprogress.org to attend the monthly meeting
Your membership supports our Tennis Court Bookings: 07 3203-3121 of the Association on the 3rd
ability to advocate on behalf of the Hall Bookings and all other Enquiries: Wednesday of the month at the
Community! Laurence Christie 07 3204 2020 Mango Hill Village Community
or 0415 342007 Centre at 7.30pm, Danzy
Buchanan Park, Chermside Rd,
Mango Hill.

ANZAC Spirit Is Alive And
Well In Mango Hill

Held before the April Progress Association
meeting, It was a moving and very personal ANZAC
commemoration at the Mango Hill Community Centre
on the evening of 21st April as Bugler, Stewart Boston-
Dart sounded the Last Post and the Reveille and some
40 members of the Mango Hill community bowed their
heads to remember the Spirit of the ANZAC’s after the
laying of the Wreaths.

We were delighted to have the company of the young
Soldiers of 103 Army Cadet Unit led by Captain Jay
Berends who formed a Catafalque formation around
the Mango Hill Commemoration Stone, as Louise
Winton sang “Simpson the Hero” & “Grandfathers
Bugle” and Dave Norman sang the “Silent ANZAC”, the
story of the Australian submarine which caused much
havoc for Turkish shipping in the Mamara Straits off
Gallipoli on the first day for the ANZAC landings on
25th April 1915

Trevor Ruthenberg, former RAAF Airman gave the
ANZAC address and spoke on the commitment and
bravery and the example set by the Australian and
New Zealand soldiers (ANZACs), backed up by their
Nurses and Doctors as they answered the call to
fight for their country. Trevor recalled how it was the
citizens of Brisbane who led the call for Australia to
commemorate that first ANZAC Day Remembrance
as early as 1916, just one year later and that this year,
2021 is the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the
Royal Australian Air Force.
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