April 15th, 2025Anzac Day Services around the shire

A range of community Anzac Day commemorative services are planned to take place throughout the Hepburn Shire later this month.

Organisers are inviting everyone to attend any of the community events that include the following:

Creswick-Smeaton RSL Sub-Branch

Anzac Day – Saturday, April 25

Wreaths can be ordered up to April 19 via creswicksmeatonrslsec@gmail.com for $40.

Creswick 5.40am – Dawn Service – assemble at the Cenotaph (cnr Albert and Raglan streets) for a 5.50am start followed by the Gunfire Breakfast in the Senior Citizens Centre. (Water Street next to the Town Hall).

9.30am – Service at the Soldiers Graves at the Creswick Cemetery, 141 Clunes Road.

10am – Service at the Memorial Stones, RSL Hall, 60 Albert Street.

10.15am – Anyone wishing to take part in the March to assemble at the Splash Park (Bottom of Albert Street).

10.30am – March commences. Following the March – Anzac Day Service – Creswick Cenotaph. Incorporating “60th Anniversary of the Creswick-Smeaton RSL Field of Crosses”.

12.30pm – Two-up at the front of the RSL Hall.

Kingston

Kingston Friends of the Avenue Anzac Day service and wreath laying at Cenotaph. Time: 9am at the corner of Victoria and Kingston roads, Kingston.

Daylesford

Dawn service at 6.30am

March to the Cenotaph, Burke Square, at 10.30am for a service at 10.45am.

Hepburn

Service at 10th Street at 8am.

Eganstown

Service at 9am.