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Remembrance Day
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Local students invited to join Sydney service
Cobar High School students and teachers were invited to perform at the St Marys RSL Sub Branch Remembrance Day service in Sydney on Friday. The invitation came after the Cobar group’s live recording of their performance on Anzac Day this year of a very moving ‘Hallelujah Veterans Version’, went viral. […]
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Cobar pauses to remember all those who have served
Australians across the nation paused on Remembrance Day last Thursday to acknowledge, honour and remember the courage and sacrifice of those who have served our country and those who have given their life in service to our nation on military and peacekeeping operations. Remembrance Day 2021 marked the 103rd anniversary […]
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Cobar residents pause to remember 101 years of armistice
At 11am on November 11, 1918 the guns fell silent on the Western Front in France and Belgium and, after four years of hostilities, World War I ended. At 11am on Monday, 101 years after the event, a crowd gathered at Drummond Park to mark Remembrance Day and they too […]
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Armistice commemoration tour takes in shire’s villages
A bus tour to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice on Sunday took in commemorative events in the shire’s villages of Euabalong, Mount Hope and Nymagee. On their first stop the bus-goers joined approximately 100 residents and visitors in Euabalong for a service in Liberty Park. Led by Heather […]
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Locals mark Remembrance Day as the promise of peace
Cobar residents came together just before 11am on Saturday in Drummond Park to mark the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month, the day when the guns fell silent on the Western Front in World War I in 1918. Cobar RSL Sub Branch president Ben Hewlett led […]
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HMAS Rankin sailors join Cobar Remembrance Day service
Cobar residents gathered at Drummond Park for Remembrance Day on Friday to commemorate and remember all those who lost their lives as a result of war. RSL Sub Branch Cobar president Ben Hewlett led the local service and welcomed the special guests, four servicemen from the HMAS Rankin submarine. Mr […]
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Cobar community commemorates Remembrance Day
President of the RSL Sub Branch of Cobar Ben Hewlett was very encouraged by the number of locals who chose to attend last Wednesday’s Remembrance Day public service in Drummond Park. “This is a fantastic turnout for a Remembrance Day service. “You have come to this service because you wanted […]