2018 LAST POST ~ 10 AUGUSTIan Harold Hayes was remembered at the daily Last Post Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial this year on the 8th August - commencing at approximately 4.55 pm AEST. Ian’s grand niece, a Colonel in the Australian Army, read his biography. Go to this website to see how you can watch the ceremony on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN5Llz5-v2g |
ANZAC Dawn Service
25th April 2016
Fifteen members of the Hayes family gathered at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.
ANZAC DAY 25th April 2015 at Tooborac
Timings: The Dawn Service Schedule
Prior to service flag is to be raised and lowered to half-mast. 6.30 am Please stand. Catafalque Party takes post. Introduction Be seated if possible Reading 1 A reading from a section of Pericles' Funeral Oration, pre 400 BC Reading 2 A reading of words from Mustafa Kemal Ataturk which are engraved on the Ari Burnu Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula ANZAC Day Address The Laying of Wreaths and Reading 3 A tribute to the Australian Service personnel The Ode Please stand The Last Post One Minutes Silence Heads bowed Reveille Heads and flag/s raised National Anthem Salute if in uniform and wearing head dress Closing Thanks 7.00 am Breakfast and refreshments at the Tooborac Mechanics Hall |
The Hayes family members commemorated on the wooden plaques in the Tooborac Hall and on the Soldiers Memorial on the Northern Highway, are :-
Great War:- Joseph Albert DONALDSON (KIA 1918); Mark Edward DONALDSON; Albert John HAYES (KIA 1917); John Stitchell HAYES; William Joseph HAYES; Frederick Edward HENDY World War 2:- Thomas Ronald DON; William John DON; Albert James GILMORE; Charles Henry HAYES; Kenneth Joseph HAYES; Neil HAYES; Ross George HAYES; Robert HAYES; David Stanley RAINEY Vietnam War:- Graeme David RAINEY |