Well folks, there is only two days to go until ANZAC Day. A day I both look forward to and dread, in equal parts.
It seems to roll around so fast, and each time there are less of the Vets I knew and called my friends. There are more of them gone now than the guys remaining. I intend to have an Honour Board with all their names on, for displaying with the CMP when it is finished. It breakes my heart to say that will need to be a very big board or extremely small writing. Possibly both.
My son and I walk in the parade each year, in memory of my Father. This year I will be remembering a WWI great uncle that I only found out about on ANZAC Day last year. How's that for great timing. James Frederick Dodgson enlisted in 1916 and was sent to France. He was in the 3rd Pioneer Battalion and had been a bit of a naughty boy on the way over there, being fined a days pay for brief AWOL while in Cape Town, S.A.
Two sleeps fellas, two sleeps