However, as we join together to pay tribute, it is also the stuff of which new memories are made, and this year’s were even more special than usual because it was the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli.

For Wauchope RSL sub-branch president Des Hancock, the highlight was having two boats at the dawn service from the Bonny Hills-Wauchope Life Saving Club, with life-savers raising oars during the Last Post in a salute to the Diggers who landed at Gallipoli.

For others, it was the last fly-past with triple barrel rolls by Rod Hall in his Albatross jet fighter, who after 25 years is taking a well-earned rest and calling it a day.

For others still, it was the fact that the younger generation are adopting the Anzac legend as their own, helping boost the dawn and mid-morning crowds into the thousands.

For me, it was the sight of a small boy racing from the crowd as his mother chased him so he could join his grandfather in the mid-morning march, jumping with glee into his arms when his grandfather stopped to pick him up.