Honouring the fallen

THE nation will fall silent at 11am on Friday next week for the 104th anniversary of Remembrance Day, with local tributes honouring those who served and died in wars to be held in both Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads.

Poppies will be on sale at various sites in both towns from tomorrow (Saturday, November 5) through till Thursday, including the main street of Ocean Grove, Kingston, various shopping centres and the Barwon Heads APCO.

Simultaneous services will be held at the Barwon Heads community hall and the Ocean Grove cenotaph, starting at 10.45am.

“That’ll involve a wreath laying and the lead into a dedication and the lowering and raising of the flags and will conclude just after 11.00am,” Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads RSL Sub-Branch secretary Richard Lewis said.

Corangamite MP Libby Coker will lay a wreath on behalf of the government at the Ocean Grove event.

Originally called Armistice Day, Remembrance Day marks the moment guns fell silent on the Western Front at the end of the First World War, and commemorates the end of the hostilities with the signing of the armistice, which occurred on November 11, 1918.

The Victorian Remembrance Day service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance will be livestreamed at shrine.org.au/remembrance-day-commemoration