The 11th Hour of the 11th Month
This year marks the 107th anniversary of the end of WW1.
The armistice concluded four years of terrible warfare which resulted in an estimated twenty million dead and twenty million wounded.
The young Australian nation contributed 416,809 enlisted men of which over 62,000 were killed and 155,000 wounded. Another 8,000 died of war related injuries.
Unfortunately, many of those that returned never recovered from the mental scares that the war inflicted on them.
A young Australia nation lost so much of its future in the conflict.
This year the Barraba community will be holding a service to remember those that served and died in World War One. Our service this year will be held at the railway gate memorial (opposite O’Meara Park) and will commence at 11:00 am.
The venue for our service has been changed this year as it was from this site that many of those Barraba men that served in this conflict had their last view of their home and district.