By Mikayla van Loon
Tudor Village commemorated their fifth Anzac Day service last weekend and it was a huge success.
Over 100 residents attended the service and with only 300 residents in total at the village, it showed just how important Anzac Day was to everyone.
The village is home to eight legacy ladies, the widows of ex-service men and eight veterans themselves.
The late Richard Scott started hosting an Anzac Day service in 2016 having served in the army reserves and the army as a printer, where he was a warrant officer for nine years in the ordnance corps during the Vietnam War.
Mr Scott’s wife, Wendy Scott said her husband loved all things to do with the army and was very supportive of events like Anzac Day.
“This is now a tradition which has been carried on in Tudor Village,” she said.
On the day Paul Jones presided over the service, Tudor singers charmed the crowd with song, John Byrne played the Last Post on a bugle and legacy ladies laid wreaths.
“I know that the legacy ladies and ex-service personnel would feel quite emotional during this special occasion as I did, thinking of my husband running it those years earlier,” Ms Scott said.
Afterwards Anzac biscuits and lamingtons were enjoyed, games of two-up were played and football was watched.
“The fact that over 100 came represents the interest and feelings of our age group, many of whom lived through WW2 as children,” Ms Scott said.
“We older folk have a very strong attachment to what our fighting forces did for us to retain the lifestyle we have enjoyed later. Younger folk have never had the deprivations we did.”
