4 NSW Masonic Club April 2018 ANZAC Day, the Club’s “biggest day of the Year” will again feature a hearty luncheon to be staged in Cellos, with a Commemorative Service to follow in the Reagh Bar on the Ground floor. The colour of the kilts, bagpipes and drums of The Sydney Pipes and Drums will again feature during the lunch and the Commemorative Service. Reserve your place now for the opportunity of attending this memorable luncheon, and to commemorate and honour our fallen with the sounding of the Last Post in the afternoon. The Club will open its bar for refreshments for all members and guests who attend the Remembrance Service. Wednesday 25th April anzac day breakfast castlereagh lounge ~ level 2 Served from 6am (After Dawn Service) Continental Buffet or A la Carte Breakfast Menu Available anzac day lunch in cellos dining room ~ level 4 Lunch starts at 12 noon Cost $65pp for 2-course set menu with a glass of wine Bookings Phone 9284 1006 anzac remembrance service in the reagh bar ~ ground floor Service starts at 3.15pm Please gather in the Reagh Bar at 3pm Lest we forget anzac day 2018 Toast to ANZAC HISTORICAL FLASHBACK ~ This toast was originally written by Club Member Charles R Nicoll in for the NSW Masonic Club Magazine in 1980. This Toast to ANZAC is a toast of remembrance to those Australian and New Zealand men and women who paid the extreme sacrifice due to the action of war. Although they are at rest in different parts of the world, the memory of them will live on from generation to generation. That immortal name ANZAC is permanently cherished in the hearts of our two small nations and is still respected in other parts of the world today. At dawn on the 25th April 1915 the flower of Australian and New Zealand manhood went into action in World War I and startled the world into admiration by their significant achievements. The memory of their glorious deeds is still fresh and fragrant and will ever be so. History was made and written on that day and the following days, with imperishable rich ANZAC blood, whilst storming the beach and heights of Gallipoli, amidst a hurricane of shot and shell. The ANZACs were untrained for the type of war they had to confront still, their courage, determination and bravery on the blood-bathed battlefields was almost superhuman. On the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme in France, they withstood non-stop furious onslaughts of heavy high explosive shells, machine gun cross fire sweeping along the trenches, different kinds of deadly poisonous gasses, feet deep of snow, mud and slush, and, in spite of their enormous casualties and the dreadful conditions that existed throughout the war, their stamina, endurance and heroic deeds, combined with those of our brave airmen, proved an epic in Military warfare. The ANZAC mounted division stationed in Egypt, with great difficulties and hardships to both man and horse, crossed the Sinia desert and entered deep into Palestine and crushed the Turkish Army, preventing them from occupying Egypt. Also included in this toast of Remembrance are Australian and New Zealand personnel of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and other conflicts they fought side by side in, their war making them the younger ANZACs and they carried out their tasks on their blood soaked battlefields, whether it be on the sea, land or in the air, with the stamina, endurance and bravery equal to that of the ANZACs of World War I. It is with pride that Australia and New Zealand mourn their men and women who paid the extreme sacrifice in our wars, for in the prime of life and health they were cut away from us – but the memory of them along with the name ANZAC, will never fade. Test your knowledge in our ANZAC DAY QUIZ on page 13.