Anzac Day 2023

I love sketching action so the parade and ceremony at the War Memorial in Berwick, Victoria for Anzac Day was too good an opportunity to miss. It was just a small ceremony in this outer suburb of Melbourne but nonetheless meaningful. Quite well attended and the cafes did well after.

Note the soldier in the photo below marching in a WWI uniform. 

People were watching one of two big TV screens. We got the works – Hymn Abide With Me, a flyover, the Last Post, a gun salute and the New Zealand and Australian anthems!

Soldiers in the parade started to line up after the ceremony. There wasn't much time to sketch them before they marched away. I was sorry not to be able to get a sketch of those in WWI uniforms. 

#Sailorfude pen, watercolour, SeawhiteTravelJournal 5.5" x 5.5".