THE main Anzac Day services will be back for Bathurst this Sunday, but there will be strict limitations on the numbers taking part in the marches.
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School-children, school bands and community groups will be excluded from the marches, which will be open only to past and present servicemen and women.
And crowds will also be encouraged to stay away to help organisers comply with COVID restrictions.
Bathurst RSL Sub Branch president David Mills said the Dawn Service will go ahead at the War Memorial Carillon from 4.30am with only past and present servicemen and women, before the community is urged to again stand in the driveway of their homes at 6am to take part in a commemoration to be broadcast on local radio stations 2BS and 2MCE.
The main service will feature a march from the Bathurst RSL to Kings Parade from 10.15am ahead of the commemoration at the Carillon.
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Mr Mills said there was some disappointment among local veterans that their families could not take part in this year's marches, but overall the response to the plans had been positive.
The Anzac Day schedule will also include community services in:
- Yetholme, 8.30am.
- Rockley, 8.30am.
- A wreath-laying at the Boer Memorial in Kings Parade, 11.50am,
- Broken Blade service (outside BMEC), 11.55am.
- Sofala, 2pm.
- War graves service (Mitchell Highway), 5.15pm.
- Lowering of the Colours, 6pm.
Many in the Bathurst community rose in the early hours on Anzac Day last year, when strict COVID restrictions were still in force, and stood in their driveways to remember the sacrifice made by former and current servicemen and women.
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