The annual ANZAC Day ceremony took place under leaden skies and in steady drizzle this year.

Representatives of the Australian and New Zealand governments and military were in Harefield for the annual commemoration on Friday last week, in this, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities.

Harefield Hospital in Hill End Road was an Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) hospital in ‘The Great War’, treating injured soldiers, many of whom succumbed to their wounds and were buried in the special cemetery in the grounds of St Mary’s Church in Church Hill.

Each year, children from local schools join in the commemoration by placing fresh flowers on the 120 First World War graves in the cemetery.

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