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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 State School. Whitsunday Anglican School Year 10 student Clancy Morgan at the Kuttabul Anzac Day D...

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 sounds of bagpipes across the chill air. The Kuttabul Anzac Day Dawn Service was attended by hundreds...

Mackay Mayor Greg Williamson confirmed on Tuesday the city’s dawn services and march would resume and there would be no ticketing systems or caps on attendance. “I think the premier and the chief health officer have listened to Queenslanders and listened to the feedback they’ve been getting from communities like ours,” Cr Williamson said. “Right now, we’re in full planning for a normal Anzac Day commemoration.” This planning was carried out under the chief health officer’s directives at the time, but this has since changed given the premier’s announcement. Cr Williamson ...

Col Benson was one of the first people in Queensland to be vaccinated against polio. Now he’ll be among the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine.