Lest we never forget

Like ANZAC Day, Remembrance Day is a time when many of us acknowledge and reflect on those who have served our country and fought so bravely to protect the precious freedoms that we enjoy as 21st century Australians.This year’s Remembrance Day ceremonies were particularly poignant, marking 100 years since the guns fell silent on the Western Front and WW1 came to an end. I had the honour of attending the military service and thanksgiving for Major General Gordon Maitland AO OBE RFD ED at St James Church in Sydney. General Maitland, who passed away on 17 October, at the age of 92, was Australia’s last surviving senior soldier, and later senior officer, from WWII. He was a “doyen” of the veteran community who dedicated the past three decades of his life to assisting veterans and their organisations. In the eulogy commemorating General Maitland’s life of service, Major General Paul Brereton drew on the words of the great Roman orator Cicero, who wrote, “the life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living”. >

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