ANZAC Day commemorated in Athens with tribute to fallen soldiers

A solemn ANZAC Day ceremonial was held successful Athens, bringing together officials, assemblage members and students to honour Australians and New Zealanders who served and died successful wartime.

Hosted by Australian Ambassador Alison Duncan astatine the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, the work paid tribute to those who fought successful equipped conflict, with a peculiar absorption connected those who mislaid their lives defending Greece during the Second World War.

The cemetery holds the names of 584 Australians and 731 New Zealanders who died during the campaign, a reminder of the shared past betwixt Greece, Australia and New Zealand.

Australian Ambassador to Greece, Allison Duncan.

Members of the Australian and New Zealand communities successful Athens attended the ceremony, alongside representatives of the Greek Government and equipped forces.

Among those contiguous were Secretary General for International Economic Affairs Dimitrios Skalkos, representing the Greek Government; Chief of Staff of the Hellenic Armed Forces Lieutenant General Konstantinos Bouzos; and Lieutenant Colonel Vasileios Tsaparis, representing the President of the Hellenic Republic.

Diplomatic representatives, veterans’ groups and assemblage organisations besides took part, including Greek Australian and Greek New Zealand associations, who laid wreaths successful honour of the fallen.

Students from section schools, including St Catherine’s British School, Campion School Athens and the 9th Elementary School of Alimos, participated successful the ceremony, highlighting the relation of younger generations successful preserving humanities memory.

The lawsuit was supported by the Hellenic Armed Forces Guard and Band, adding to the ceremonial value of the occasion.

The embassy said the work was a infinitesimal to bespeak connected sacrifice and to explicit ongoing gratitude for those who gave their lives.