Join the Fort Benning Australian Army Contingent for the 103rd Anniversary of Anzac Day. A Gunfire Breakfast will be served followed by a traditional Anzac Day dawn service at the 173rd Airborne Brigade Monument.
• Gunfire Breakfast at 6am
• Dawn Service at 6:30am
At the 173rd Airborne Memorial on the National Infantry Museum’s Memorial Walk of Honor.
Thanks to our American 173d allies for this appreciation of the fallen – especially on behalf of ‘Tiny’ Parker – Peter Gillson (8 Nov 1965) from a colleague – and thanks also to AUSTMIA
for finally bringing them home to their families (6 of them). Also thanks on behalf of Ray Seipel – and other fallen colleagues from 1 RAR.
We can only hope that the 173d appreciated our different tactics – and why the Aussie bush hat became a souvenir; along with our ‘slouch hats’.
Are we now American ANZACs?