Dawn service at Greenwell Point 2025

Major Tim Reid speaking at Greenwell Point's 2025 Dawn Service.

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00:00favouring resolve in the face of adversity.

00:042025 also marks 110 years since the Waratah March, which began in Nowra,

00:13gathering volunteers for war service along its way to Sydney. Most of those who volunteered

00:19departed Australia in 1916 and joined the 1st Battalion of the AIF as reinforcements

00:24and fought at the Battle of Poziere. Charles Bean wrote that Poziere Ridge is more densely

00:30sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on earth. Australian forces suffered over

00:3723,000 casualties in the battle. A fifth of the volunteers of the 1915 Waratah March from Nowra

00:44were killed on the Western Front.