While we are in Level 4 Lock-down, we cannot commemorate Anzac Day in our usual fashion, and it would appear that we are unlikely to be open for meetings until we are at Level 2 or maybe Level 1.
You can place a poppy or wreath at our Devonport Cenotaph in your own time while observing social distancing.
You are encouraged to place suitable Anzac Day memorabilia in your window or porch or on your letterbox, front gate or fence. If you have a bear in your window, please make sure it is wearing a poppy.
 
Virtual and Digital Anzac Day Ceremonies
Various organisations are offering virtual or digital Anzac Day Ceremonies and you are encouraged to participate as best suits your daily programme and your degree of technical prowess! Following is a range of options. Please share them with others:
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Stand at Dawn:

• The RNZRSA asks us to Stand at Dawn within our bubbles. There will be a live broadcast on National Radio at dawn commencing at 0550.
  How to #StandAtDawn from 0550 on Saturday 25 April:
  Tune in to RNZ National on 101 FM, streaming live on the website rnz.co.nz/national on your phone or mobile device (download the app here) or find your local radio frequency here: rnz.co.nz/listen/amfm.
  You can also follow the live blog on rnz.co.nz.
  For additional Information visit standatdawn.com

​Navy Band Anzac Day Service:

• The video of the Navy Band Anzac Day service is now available on You Tube bit.ly/2RZOvKZ. The same service will be posted on the Navy Band Facebook page on Saturday, 25 April at 0955.

North Shore Brass:

• The North Shore Brass Band has produced a moving and fitting video for Anzac Day. It will be available on the North Shore Brass Facebook page from Friday 24 April. It can also be accessed at www.facebook.com/northshorebrassband  TBA. 

Auckland Officers’ Club Anzac Service:

• 1100 Featuring our Rebecca Nelson and Bugler Bill Rimmer
  Join at: https://bit.ly/2VRJfdq Meeting ID: 220 499 017 Password: anzac
  Please note that numbers are limited, and you should be suitably dressed as if attending a normal Anzac Day ceremony (i.e. No PJs with or without medals!)

 
Televised Anzac Day Themed Programmes
Various Anzac Day themed television programmes will be screened as follows:
 
Maori Television:

• 0630 - Great War Stories
• 0700 - Kiwi Service Women in WWII
• 1000 - Grandfather’s Footsteps
• 1030 - Lest We Forget
• 1100 - Victor 4 Company
• 1430 - Charge of the Anzacs
• 1730 - The Liberation of Le Quesnoy
• 1900 - The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
• 2050 - Their finest (Comedy Movie)

           
TV1:  

• 0805 - Descent from Disaster: A Gallipoli Special
• 0855 - Paradise Soldiers 
              (107 years of Cook Islanders service in NZDF)
• 1010 - Coastwatchers: Operation Pacific
• 1100 - Anzac Day 2020: Stories of Remembrance
              (WWII, Vietnam & Afghanistan)

 
TV3:

• 0735 - Le Quesnoy – the history of this New Zealand battle
• 1030 - Great war Stories

 
Prime:

• 1930 New Zealand’s Airforce; Then and Now
  (Compulsory viewing for Flt Sgt Max Laloli)

 
Should nothing on offer appeal then, if you have any flour left, you can bake some Anzac Biscuits. See the recipe below.

Howard Mace
President

We hope you are all coping well with the current situation with everybody in lockdown.
 
We have set up a telephone tree to contact members to check on your welfare and offer support if needed. You would have heard from them by now. Unfortunately, many of the telephone numbers on our membership list were out of date.
 
If you have recently changed your details (address, email and/or phone number) We would appreciate it if you could email devonportrsa@xtra.co.nz to update our information.
 
As you will be aware our Anzac Day service has been disrupted for the second time in two years. Chris Mullane and others are working on a virtual service for members and the community. We will not be laying out the Field of Remembrance for Anzac Day. However, we hope to make Remembrance Day on Wednesday 11 November 2020 a much more fitting commemoration this year so that members and the community can participate in a meaningful way.
 
RSA National has set up a volunteer delivery service, they can pick up groceries and pharmaceutical products for you. There are protocols in place to keep the volunteers and you safe, and they will be considered essential services. Please do get in touch if you would like any help.
 
Stay home, stay well and wash your hands.
 
Yours faithfully,

Howard Mace
President