1/48Veterans at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
Mackay Anzac Day Main Service 2021
It was a touching and welcome return to traditional Anzac Day services across Mackay.
2/48Tim Lambropoulus with his daughter Grace, 7, at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
3/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service. Picture: Heidi Petith
4/48Aldo Rovers and David Caracciolo laying the Mackay Italian community's first ever wreath at a Mackay Anzac Day service at the Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
5/48Australian Navy TS Pioneer cadets laying a wreath at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
6/48Mackay District Country Patrol Inspector Ian Haughton at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
7/48A tiger moth flying over the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
8/48World War II veteran Terry Hayes (far right) laying a wreath alongside friends and family at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
9/48Mackay Choral Society members Jeanette Oberg and Nicole Thomson at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
10/48Aldo Rovers and David Caracciolo laying the Mackay Italian community's first ever wreath at a Mackay Anzac Day service at the Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
11/48Veterans including Vietnam Veteran Dennis Doring (right) laying a wreath at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
12/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service. Picture: Heidi Petith
13/48Australian Army cadets laying a wreath at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
14/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service. Picture: Heidi Petith
15/48Vietnam War veteran Col Benson, senior vice president of the Mackay RSL Sub-Branch (far left) and World War II veteran Terry Hayes (far right) laying a wreath alongside friends and family at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
16/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
17/48Lance Corporal Prior (far right) at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service. Picture: Heidi Petith
18/48Aldo Rovers and David Caracciolo representing Mackay's Italian community at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
19/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
20/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
21/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
22/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
23/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
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25/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
26/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
27/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
28/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
29/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
30/48Afghanistan veteran Mark Preston with RSL historian Graham Jackson at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
31/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Chloe Waddell
32/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Chloe Waddell
33/48Dundula State School and Eimeo Road State School students laying wreaths at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
34/48Dundula State School, Mackay District Special School, Andergrove State School and Eimeo Road State School students laying wreaths at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
35/48Dundula State School students at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
36/48Mackay scout members laying a wreath at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021, including rover Jim McIntyre, scout Liam Broadbent, cub Joey Brown, joey Mikayla Page and venturer Lilly Nongsra. Picture: Heidi Petith
37/48Mackay Area Commander Sven Diga with Queensland Ambulance Service members at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
38/48Mackillop Catholic Primary School and Beaconsfield State School students laying wreaths at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
39/48Mackay State Emergency Service member Jo-Ann Clout with PCYC emergency service cadets laying wreaths at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
40/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
41/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Chloe Waddell
42/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
43/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
44/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
45/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
46/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
47/48Veterans and family members laying wreaths at the Mackay Anzac Day Main Service, 2021. Picture: Heidi Petith
48/48Mackay Anzac Day Main Service. Picture: Heidi Petith
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