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Clancy Morgan honoured her great-grandfather with his medals proudly adorning her Whitsunday Anglican School uniform. The Kuttabul Anzac Day Dawn Service in 2021 commemorates the Australian Light Horse troops. Picture: Lillian Watkins The Year 10 student said she was honoured to wear them at the Kuttabul Dawn Service, a special commemoration that remembers those who served and the Australian Light Horse brigade. Hundreds of people rose early to gather at the Remembrance Garden in the Hampden ...

Premium Content Subscriber only Residents have returned to Anzac Day Dawn Services this year, with the day’s first light showing the huge crowds paying their respects. The Daily Mercury is covering the day starting with the Jubilee Park Dawn Service. Photos and stories from across the region will be published here throughout the day. Kuttabul’s tradition still honouring our Anzacs Three riders and their horses lead the march that commenced the Kuttabul Anzac Day Dawn Service to the so...

Bloomsbury:  Dawn Service, 5.30am, Bloomsbury Soldier‘s Hall, Doughertys Road, Bloomsbury Calen/St Helens: Dawn Service, 5.20am and another service at 11am, Calen Memorial Hall, McIntyre Street Eton: Dawn Service, 5am, Langford Park, Telegraph Street, Eton Farleigh: Dawn Service, 5.30am Cenotaph, Farleigh Sugar Mill Grounds, Armstrong Street, Farleigh Finch Hatton: Dawn Service, 4.28am and another evening service at 6.15pm, Finch Hatton Cenotaph, Anzac Parade, Finch Hatton Gargett: Mornin...

Premium Content Subscriber only Mackay Regional Council is considering a request to rename the northern section of beach south of Mackay to honour those who have served the country. The section covers the reserve frontage to Hay Point’s Half Tide Beach and extends from the entrance off Highwater Islet Drive to the entrance off McCarthy Street, south of Chain Lane. If it is approved, the section will be renamed Half Tide Memorial Beach Park. The Mackay Regional Council is considering a req...

Premium Content Subscriber only Volunteer Marine Rescue Mackay members spent almost more time on the water than on land across the weekend with four rescues in less than 30 hours. Two crews were doing winch training with their RACQ CQ Rescue peers on Saturday when they were called to separate incidents. “As if on cue, a call (came) in for Mastermyne Rescue 5 to assist a 5m powerboat that had broken down near Keswick Island,” public relations and marketing volunteer Daryl Howland posted to...