The Remembrance Day service was well attended at the Lilydale Cenotaph, with school students from St Patrick’s Primary School, Lilydale Primary School and Lilydale High School all contributing to the service.
Those who read poems did so very well, while students from the Mount Lilydale Mercy College choir sang beautifully.
One highlight was when the Evelyn MP Bridget Vallence read a poem by Laurel Pickett. She wrote the poem at the cenotaph after an Anzac service in 1947 as a 17-year-old after losing her father and cousin as a result of war.
Lilydale RSL president Bill Dobson conducted an Anzac Day service last year at the Bolton Clark Aged Care in Lilydale and promised Laurel that the poem would be read at the next Remembrance Day, sadly Laurel passed away recently.
Laurel’s daughter Bronwyn Leamey and family attended the service and mentioned afterwards that Laurel would have been thankful to have the poem read on Remembrance Day.
