The First ANZAC Service
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.
