COMMUNITY PROGRAM 2023

There is always a hive of activity going on at the Hervey Bay RSL with patrons enjoying everything from bingo and functions to cold drinks, great food and a flutter in the TAB or gaming room.

What many don't know is that while they are having a good time out, they are also helping to give back to the Fraser Coast community. The RSL is the only club in Hervey Bay that runs a Community Grants Program, which has seen local sporting clubs, individuals and community groups receive a share of over $900,000 in the last financial year. The grants program celebrates and supports individual achievements and those charities and not-for-profit organisations doing incredible work on the Fraser Coast.

Application forms are available online at herveybayrsl.com.au or by phoning Kerrie Alexander on 41977466.

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6.30pm Rego, 7pm START, Hervey House. For

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HONOUR FOR “THE GREAT WAR”

REMEMBRANCE Day marks the moment hostilities ceased after four years on the Western Front of the First World W At 5am on 11 November 1918 in a railway carriage in France, representatives of France, Britain and Germany all signed a document that would put an end to the conflict.

“It was the old-style warfare; bl the hell out of each other and what's left get up and try and fight,” Mr Tidyman said.

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Six hours later - at 11am - those signatures would bring into effect the Armistice that endedthewar.

More than 70 million people fought in World War 1, with estimates of the dead between nine and 13 million, many who havenoknowngrave.

HerveyBayRSLSub-BranchPresidentBrian Tidyman said many civilians aren't aware that the difference between ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day was the sheer brutalityofthiswaralone.

HesaidtheANZACDaytraditionwasformed atGallipoliaftertheAustralianandtheNew Zealand Army Corps formed a defensive alliancetofightinmanydifferentconflicts. Remembrance Day marks a minute silence on November 11 at 11am, solely for the soldiers in WW1 who were sent to their deathinallout-trenchwarfare.

The widespread use of machine guns and rapid-firing artillery pieces on the Western Front meant that any exposed soldier was vulnerable.