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                                                                                 Afghanistan Honour Roll

 

Sgt Andrew RUSSELL  

16.02.2002

Trooper David PEARCE

08.10.2007

Sgt Matthew LOCKE

25.10.2007

Pte Luke WORSLEY

23.11.2007

LCpl Jason MARKS

27.04.2008

Signaller Sean McCARTHY

08.07.2008

Days of  Sadness, Heartfelt pain

Our Aussie Soldiers killed again

And many people in this war

Will question “What’s this fighting for?”

“We know the lads are good and tough

But surely this must be enough!

They say “Get rid of all this pain

and bring our Soldiers home again”

 

Days of Sadness, tortured grief

Life for these lads was cruelly brief

And family’s unspoken fears

Are realised in a Vale of tears

But hear the words these families say

“If our troops must come home today

Then that would be the cruellest pain

For then our boys have died in vain.”

 

Days of Sadness, Pain and Pride

Our husbands, brothers, Sons have died

But we believe their sacrifice

Will help to pay our freedom’s price

Our Nation’s history tells the tale

Of those whose courage didn’t fail

Who gave their lives for you and me

To free our world from tyranny.

 

Days of Sadness, deepest sorrows

Our boys have given their tomorrows

Our Anzac Story tells the cost

Of many other young lives lost

Who fell with faces to the foe

To buy the peace their children know

They fought until the job was done

The only way that peace is won.

 

Days of Sadness, pained goodbyes

While loved ones mourn a Nation cries

The Eulogies will tell the tales

Of those whose courage didn’t fail

Our courage too we now must show

Our fighting lads deserve to know

That even though the cost is great

We’ll let them fight on for their mates.

The poem written by Padre Jim Cosgrove

Lt Michael FUSSELL

27.11.2008

Pte Gregory SHER

04.01.2009

Cpl Mathew HOPKINS

16.03.2009

Sgt Brett TILL

19.03.2009

Pte Benjamin RANAUDO

18.07.2009

Sapper Jacob MOERLAND

07.06.2010

           

Sapper Darren SMITH  

07.06.2010

Pte Timothy APLIN

21.06.2010

Pte Scott PALMER

21.06.2010

Pte Benjamin CHUCK

21.06.2010

Pte Nathan BEWES

09.07.2010

Trooper Jason BROWN

13.08.2010

           

Pte Grant KIRBY

20.08.2010

Pte Tomas DALE

20.08.2010

LCpl Jared MacKINNEY

24.08.2010

Cpl Richard Atkinson

02.02.2011

Sapper Jamie Larcombe

19.02.2011

Sgt  Brett Wood

23.05.2011

           

LCpl Andrew Gordon Jones

30.05.2011

Lt Marcus Sean Case

30.05.2011

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Sapper Rowan Robinson

06.06.2011

Sgt Todd Langley

05.07.2011

Pte Matt Lambert

22.08.2011

Capt Bryce Duffy

29.10.2011

 

Cpl Ashley Birt

29.10.2011

LCpl Luke Gavin

29.10.2011

 

 

     

They shall grow not old,

As we that are left grow old,

Age shall not weary them,

Nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun,

And in the morning

We will remember them.

Lest We Forget

 Australian Soldiers in Afghanistan