Ceremonies Archive

The loss of HMAS Armidale is remembered each year on 1st December with a short service at the memorial tree and plaque dedicated to RAN Corvettes on the Shrine Reserve.

The 29/46 Battalion Association holds its annual pilgrimage on the first Sunday in December each year. The service is held to commemorate the Battalion's first action on 5th December 1943 on the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea.

A short service of remembrance is held annually on the first Monday in December by the combined 2/25th and 2/31st Battalion Associations. Both Battalions served in North Africa and the Pacific theatre as part of the 7th Division, winning battle honours for such far-flung sites as Syria, Kokoda and Borneo.

This date was chosen to mark the anniversary of the cessation of combat duties on the Kokoda Trail for the two Battalions in December 1942.
 

This ceremony will remember the current and on-going service of Australian troops on peacekeeping duties, particularly those serving overseas assignments  during the holiday period.

The Australian Intelligence Corps was formed on 6th December 1907, it was disbanded in 1914 and reformed again at the outbreak of the Second World War. Since its reformation the Corps has provided intelligence and counter-intelligence support to the Army, the service of members of the Corps is remembered on this day.

The American Ex-Servicemen's Association holds an annual service on the Sunday closest to 7th December to commemorate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and America's entry into the Second World War. The Association also remembers the US-Australian military co-operation since the Second World War on this date.

This service is in memory of the Victorian service men and women who served overseas or in Australia in all wars, in ships or units of the Royal Australian Navy, the Australian Army or the Royal Australian Air Force.

The names of those who enlisted in Victoria and served overseas during the First World War are recorded in the books displayed in the ambulatory of this Shrine of Remembrance. They served in the Middle East, on the Gallipoli Peninsula, in France, in German New Guinea and on the oceans of the world. 89,000 Victorians served overseas and 19,000 made the supreme sacrifice.

In the Second World War, 297,000 Victorians served overseas and 10,900 died. They served in many locations in the European, Middle Eastern and Pacific theatres.
In later conflicts, Australians served in a wide variety of theatres, both as combatants and as peacekeepers, as the need arose. Many Australian men are women are currently serving overseas.