Remembrance Day dawn service
Senior Members of the Fiji Military Force, the Police, Navy and Corrections, and military attachés from France, Australia and Japan joined the Chief of Staff Brigadier General Mohammed Aziz at the Remembrance Day dawn service today at the Military Cemetery, Reservoir Road in Suva.
The service was held to honour permanently the valiant men and women of both world wars including those who had lost their lives in the line of duty, in the many theaters of conflict since.
There was a short church service led by RFMF Chaplain Rev. Major Josefa Tikonatabua, followed by the reading of the Binyon lines, a most famous and enduring war poem written at an historic moment to remember those that had fallen in the line of duty.
Then the aged old custom of the Last Post was sounded signaling to those who were still out and wounded or separated that the fighting was done, and to follow the sound of the call to find safety and rest.
A two minute silence was observed, followed by the sounding of the rouse a, ritual done as a pledge to guard the honour of war dead. Republic of Fiji Military Forces chief of staff Brigadier-General Mohammed Aziz laid the first wreath followed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr Isikeli Ligairi, then the Commissioner of Prisons Lieutenant Colonel Ifereimi Vasu, followed by the British Army Light Infantry, and other military attachés to Fiji. The service continued at the Fiji Naval Base at Walu Bay.
Vanavasa Vakacegu, Major (Ret’d), the Vice President of the Returned Soldiers and ex-Servicemen’s Association of Fiji said they were grateful that they could be remembered this way. He said that the fallen have gone before us to blaze the trail for us yet to come to the end. SALUTE
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