ALL Saint’s Church invites the public to attend their special service to commemorate the Anzacs on Sunday from 9.30am.
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The church has an Honour Roll that dates back to 1920 and has the names of 223 soldiers who served in The Great War.
And, the church committee agreed the centenary deserved a special service.
“There are so many familiar surnames on here; I’d wager that many of their descendants are still here in Singleton,” Peoples Warden Gary Holland said.
The service will have a military theme and they will ring the church bells in honour of the soldiers who fought.
The Bishop of Armidale Dr Wentworth Shields presided over the official unveiling in October 1920 and said Australia could never repay all she owes to the men who fought, who died, or who had returned.
“If she forgot them it would be a blot on her whole history. Might the life-perpetual be with those who fell, they are not dead, but still with us.
“It was our best who left to fight for our freedom, and by their pluck, energy, and sacrifice had given their lives for the service of the Empire.”