St George & ANZAC

Two celebrations today but we were concentraing on commemorating ANZAC Day at Leighterton village.
A long day but enjoyable, met up with the riders at 10:00 departed at 10:30 and got to the village around 11:15. Parked up at the primary school and walked down to the pub! Coke only for me as I never drink alcohol when I ride or drive.
Bit late getting mustered onto the parade ground (school playground), I think we were waiting for dignitaries to arrive. High Sherrif of Gloucestershire (Lt Col A J Tabor JP), Australian Air Force and High Commission, New Zealand High Commission, Royal Air Force and others were all represented including our Royal British Legion Gloucestershire Chairman.
Marched from the school to the cemetery where about 24 Australians are buried, there was an Aussie air force training base near the village and they are fondly remembered by the villagers.
There was some very moving moments during the service of course, the last post, the poem 'They shall grow not old......' and the Kohima Epitaph, always gets me choked up. The schoolchildren laid sprigs of Rosemary on all of the Aussie graves while their names were called out, Rosemary grew wild all over the Dardenelles peninsula and is used to represent remembrance on ANZAC Day (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps).
A nice ride back with the RBL Riders (see extra, I'm not in it of course, I was taking the photo!).

JazzyB - I'm afraid there were no ANZAC cookies, just plates of assorted biscuits. I don't know if anything else came out afterwards but the ceremony finished around 16:00 and we left after about half an hour.