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Premium Content Subscriber only Mackay’s army cadets will soon have fit-for-purpose barracks with about $1m being committed for upgrades to 11 buildings. A Department of Defence Force spokeswoman said the project at the Komiatum Barracks on Shakespeare Street was expected to be finished by the end of the year. Refurbishment works include replacing flooring, making sure the roof access is compliant, repairing and repainting surfaces, fixing damage to walls and ceilings, replacing chain wi...

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 Judith Sheean said she was proud, honoured and overwhelmed to wear the first Victoria Cross awarded to an Australian navy crew member. It was posthumously awarded to Teddy Sheean, 78 years after he died from an incredible act of heroism during World War II. As the special guest at the Half Tide Beach Anzac Day Dawn Service, Mrs Sheean said the honour was supposed to be reserved for her husband William — Teddy’s nephew — but he passed away six weeks earlie...

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...