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PROUD MOMENTS ON ANZAC DAY HEADS were held high as footsteps marched to the solemn beat of drums in the main street on Friday morning. Onlookers applauded the procession, children pointing, waving and smiling, and proud families honouring their loved ones past and present. All these the scenes of what was another memorable ANZAC Day march in Parkes. Veterans, local and visiting, led the march through the CBD that looped back to Cooke Park, followed by service men and women, and families and school students, many proudly wearing relatives’ war medals. The annual community commemorations took place at the cenotaph afterwards. ■ See more of our coverage of ANZAC Day in Parkes on pages 12-13
AFTER a few false starts, the forecast rain finally arrived in Parkes. But according to regional rain gauges it seems Parkes and Dubbo were the only areas to receive the bulk of it. Over Saturday and up to 9am on Sunday, 27 April the Parkes Airport recorded 41.4mm, with reports of up to 45mm reaching other areas of town and the shire, including at Peak Hill which had 45.8mm 24 hours later. Parkes had an additional 6mm from Sunday to 9am Monday. Our neighbours weren’t so lucky with Forbes Airport recording just 7.4mm, Cowra Airport 4.4mm and Condobolin Airport 6.8mm. The rain clouds were closer to Dubbo and Orange where their readings showed 40.8mm up to 9am Sunday in Dubbo and an additional 7mm the following day, and 23.2mm with an additional 10mm the next day in Orange. Parkes’ last good downpour was recorded 37 days ago on 21 March with 22.6mm, and before that 75 days ago on 11 February with 38mm.
Middleton Public School students joined a few hundred of their peers in the ANZAC Day march.
Day hits home for Dave
By CHRISTINE LITTLE As Dave Wilson rose from his bed and put on his suit before dawn, he felt a little closer to his grandfather this ANZAC Day. While he’s always proudly worn
his grandfather’s two World War I medals on his chest on these national days of remembrance, for the first time he had around his neck was his grandfather’s dog tag. For those not familiar with the term, a dog tag is a small, typically
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metal, identification tag worn by military personnel. In a lucky find among his mother’s belongings, Dave’s brother found the dog tag and posted it to him so as to keep it all together in a collection with their grandfather’s
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war medals - a King George Victory Medal and a British War Medal. It arrived just in time for ANZAC Day. The dog tag shows the service number of one Harold Ernest Cooke 3046 of the 45th Australian
Infantry Battalion. The letters CE also imprinted on the tag stand for Church of England. “His service number was 3046 which means he was among the ■ Continued on page 3.
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