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Iain Townsley, Chris Thiele, Bob Richardson, Chris Newell and Stan Beaumont outside Lilydale Primary School, where the recreation will start.
March to peace World War I veterans held a peace march down Castella Street, Lilydale, to celebrate the Treaty of Versailles officially ending The Great War in 1919. One hundred years later, ex-service people are invited to help recreate the historical event. The original march took place on 19 July 1919. The recreation will start at 11am on Saturday 20 July outside Lilydale Primary School. The march will proceed down Castella Street to the Athenaeum Theatre, where a ceremony will take place under the Shire of Lillydale World War I Honour Board. Veterans included on the honour board hail from Coldstream, Croydon, Gruyere, Kal-
orama, Kilsyth, Lilydale, Monbulk, Montrose, Mooroolbark, Mount Dandenong, Mount Evelyn, Olinda, Ringwood, Seville, Silvan, Wandin, Wonga Park and Yering. Armistice Day, today known as Remembrance Day, on 11 November 1918 signalled a ceasefire in The Great War. WWI officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 29 June 1919. The document was among five treaties formulated at the Paris Peace Conference and established the conditions of peace with Germany. This event follows a slew of commemorations in the region to mark the century that has passed since WWI.
Mount Evelyn RSL finished tributes for local service men and women held 100 years to the day after their deaths with Mount Evelyn sailor Sub-Lieutenant Frank Larkins at the Mount Evelyn War Memorial on Thursday 20 June. It was the final of 63 services held since 2015, a ritual the Mount Evelyn and Lilydale RSLs started to mark the Centenary of Anzac at war memorials in Montrose, Wandin, Mount Evelyn, Yarra Glen, Silvan and Lilydale. The RSLs will now turn their attention to the Vietnam War. The Mount Evelyn War Memorial will host a tribute to Ray Moore, 50 years after he was killed in action in Vietnam on Wednesday 24 July at 11am.
A photo from the original march in 1919.
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