Anzac Day Commemoration Service 2015

Free Admission

On this day

26 April

— 1941

Six Australian warships were involved in Operation Demon, the evacuation of Allied personnel from Greece

— 1943

Japanese submarine I-26 torpedoed and sank the merchant ship LIMERICK of Cape Byron, NSW.

— 1943

A Catalina Flying boat crashed while dropping supplies to Coastwatchers on Bougainville Island. The pilot and two crew were killed, the survivors reached the Coastwatchers camp and evacuated by submarine

— 1953

Ceasefire talks resumed in Panmunjom, Korea, as the warring sides attempted to end the fighting