The theme of remembrance continued at Mount Isa's main Anzac Day service after a successful dawn service.
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Hundreds of people lined the parade route from the police station and almost two thousand people gathered in front of the Civic Centre to hear speeches from Fr Mick Lowcock, Mount Isa City Council Deputy Mayor Phil Barwick and the anthems played by the Spinifex State College school band.
As at the dawn service Mary-Jane Caldwell played the pipes while the bugler was Keith Cox.
Mount Isa RSL sub-branch president Tony Smith was master of ceremonies.
Students from local schools read out five stories from First World War veterans all of whom are now buried at Mount Isa.
See our photos from the 104th Anzac Day dawn service here.
The theme of remembrance continued at Mount Isa's main service after a successful dawn service on the 104th Anzac Day on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people lined the parade route from the police station and almost two thousand people gathered in front of the Civic Centre on a glorious morning to hear speeches from Fr Mick Lowcock, Mount Isa City Council Deputy Mayor Phil Barwick and the anthems played by the Spinifex State College school band.
Father Mick Lowcock acknowledged the traditional owners of the land the Kalkadoon “who have faced many battles on this land and who have served overseas as well”.
“We know that war never achieves peace but try as we might it is not always possible to do without some kind of violence,” Fr Mick said.
“That’s why we come here today to make a statement that real and lasting peace are important to us to our world, our lifestyle, our cities, our relationships.”
Mount Isa City deputy mayor Phil Barwick said it was important to think back from our comfortable lives in 2018 to one hundred years earlier, the last year of the First World War.
“In April that year there was no comprehension the war was going to end,” he said. “The statistics to March 1918 were staggering, there were 388,000 Australians enlisted of which 42,156 had died. and there were 200,000 in battle in Europe.”