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The first ANZAC Service was held on 25th April 1916. Seven Martinborough men had lost their live in the Gallipoli campaign and worse was to come. From a population of only seven hundred and seventy two a total of one hundred and seventy Martinborough men enlisted in the forces and forty five of these died in the war.
The first Service was conducted by the Rev. J MacGregor with Mrs W. J. Martin the organist. Hymns included; ‘O God our help in ages past’, ‘Old hundredth’, ‘Praise to our God whose bounteous hand’, Kipling’s ‘Recessional’ and ‘ Holy Father in Thy mercy’.
Addresses were given by Mr A O Considine, Mr A.D. McLeod, and Mr. G.W. Cobb.
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