The Service will take place on:
Thursday 21 April 2022
11.00 am
Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial
Lemnos Square
Foote Street Albert Park
We are grateful and honored that our first official Anzac Day
Service will include the participation of the Evzones, the Hellenic
Presidential Guard.
This bronze Memorial, of a nurse protecting a weary soldier, was
sculpted by renowned artist Peter Corlett OAM. It recognizes the
important role of the Greek island of Lemnos in Australia's ANZAC story
and is dedicated to the Australian nurses and soldiers
who served there during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915; to the 148
Australian soldiers who remain buried there; and to the local community
who supported them.
Our 2022 Anzac Day Service at Lemnos Square will include an
address, a wreath-laying ceremony, the national anthems of Greece and
Australia, the reciting of the Ode, and of course the guarding of the
Memorial by the Evzones. Their presence further enhances
our connection between Australia and Greece and will highlight the role
that Lemnos played in the Gallipoli Campaign.
The Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee thanks the Victorian
Government for making this visit to Melbourne by the Evzones - the
Hellenic Presidential Guard possible and the Greek National Day Council
for including this visit to our Memorial.
We would be delighted if you could join us for this important event.
Note that there will be a limited number of wreaths being laid during the service by Official Guests.
Lee Tarlamis OAM MP
President
Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee
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