Anzac Day services
TIMARU Timaru Cenotaph on Queen St 6am will include a short parade, two minutes silence, last post, reveille and a small wreath and poppy laying ceremony. Timaru Cemetery Service, Domain Ave 6.45am will include two minutes’ silence, last post, reveille and poppy laying. Washdyke Sir Basil Arthur Park 9am. Timaru Civic Service 10am, service at Caroline Bay Sound Shell, will include two minutes’ silence, parade past the Field of Remembrance (over 1,100 white crosses have been built which represent every man and woman from South Canterbury who perished in WWI), flyovers by SC Aero Club, speeches from NZDF representative & SC RSA President Greg O’Brien, hymns, last post, reveille and our 42 wreaths with accompanying histories will be laid. Dawn Service at the Temuka Domain 6am. Temuka main gates 10.30am, opposite police station marching to the park, then cenotaph. Drinks and sandwiches to follow. GERALDINE War Memorial 8.55am. Woodbury War Memorial 10.15am. Peel Forest Hall 11.30am. Rangitata Island Aerodrome 14.15pm. PLEASANT POINT Victor Wilson School Hall 8am. FAIRLIE Anzac parade on Main St 10.30am. Mackenzie Community Centre 10am. TWIZEL War Memorial 6am. WAIMATE Hakataramea Cenotaph Dawn Service 6.30am. Waimate Dawn Service & Gun Salute Victoria Park Memorial Gates 7.00am. Southburn Service Southburn War Memorial 8am. St Andrews Service & Gun Salute St Andrews War Memorial 8.45am. Waimate Civic Service & Gun Salute Waimate Event Centre Returned Personnel (wearing medals) are invited to assemble outside the Waimate Event Centre at 9.50am. Members of the public are asked to be seated inside the Waimate Event Centre by 9.50am. There will be a parade to the Memorial Clock after the service for the laying of wreaths. Waiho Forks Hotel Ted’s Bottle Service 1.30pm. mate. Under the post-war rehabilitation scheme I trained as a market gardener, and was given the opportunity to take up a property in Hawke’s Bay, but it was too far away from the place that I really wanted to live.’’
Over the years he ran a taxi business, a delicatessen, and then a wine shop in Waimate.
In the book, Batchelor recalls an evening in the desert in Bagush, Egypt in preparation for their first action in the Libyan Campaign.
There were little desert jerobas, similar to pint-sized wallabies, like the ones he had