1/55Maisie Smith, 3, and Ella Smith, 4, at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
Mackay’s moment of silence to remember fallen soliders
150 veterans, family members and leaders attended the quiet, sombre ceremony at Jubilee Park
2/55East Timor and Afghanistan veteran Mark Preston at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
3/55Mackay sub-branch president Ken Higgins at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
4/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
5/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
6/55East Timor and Afghanistan veteran Mark Preston at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
7/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
8/55Mackay RSL padres reverend James Haire at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
9/55Bugler Tianne Barker played at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
10/55Mackay Regional Council Mayor Greg Williamson at the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
11/55East Timor and Afghanistan veteran Mark Preston at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
12/55Mackay RSL sub-branch military historian Graham Jackson at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
13/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
14/55Mackay RSL padres reverend Jim Brown at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
15/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
16/55The Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony paid tribute to the men, women and animals who served in Australia's armed forces at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
17/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
18/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
19/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
20/55RSL district secretary Lynette Phillips made sure the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park was COVID compliant on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
21/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
22/55Wreaths at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
23/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
24/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
25/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
26/55Bugler Tianne Barker played at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
27/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
28/55Attendees held wreaths at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
29/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
30/55Mackay Regional Council Mayor Greg Williamson at the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
31/55at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
32/55Mackay MP Julieanne Gilbert and Mayor Greg Williamson placed their wreaths at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
33/55RSL district president John Edwards and Mackay RSL president Ken Higgins placed a wreath at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
34/55Mackay Regional Council councillor Laurence Bonaventura at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
35/55Ian Hamilton shared the story of losing his brother days before the end of WWII at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
36/55Col Benson at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
37/55Former Mackay RSL sub-branch president Reay Tuck placed a single flower on the Jubilee Park cenotaph during the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
38/55Residents placed wreaths at the Jubilee Park cenotaph during the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
39/55Sarah Cooke placed a wreath on behalf of the Salvation Army at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
40/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
41/55Police attended the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
42/55Former Mackay RSL sub-branch president Reay Tuck at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
43/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
44/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
45/55Graham Jackson and placed a wreath at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
46/55Veterans placed wreaths at the Jubilee Park cenotaph during the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
47/55Residents placed wreaths at the Jubilee Park cenotaph during the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
48/55Representatives of Mackay Legacy placed a wreath at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
49/55Representatives of Mackay Legacy placed a wreath at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
50/55Col Walz placed a wreath on behalf of the Veterans Support Group at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
51/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
52/55Dr Peter Wright at the Mackay Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
53/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
54/55Murray Smith and his wife Robyn placed a wreath at the Jubilee Park cenotaph to commemorate Mr Smith's son, Scott, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2012. They attended the Mackay Remembrance Day ceremony at on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
55/55150 veterans, family members and Mackay leaders attended the Remembrance Day commemorative ceremony at Jubilee Park on Wednesday November 11, 2020. Picture: Zizi Averill
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