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Check out this quick guide to where and when the services will be held this year.
Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie's Anzac Day services begin with the dawn service at 5.30am at the war memorial on the corner of Clarence and Horton streets.
All ex-service personnel and members of the public are invited to attend.
Hastings Secondary College Westport Campus's Cameron Halmi will provide the main address.
The main service march will commence at 10am with the commemoration service at 10.30am.
All ex-service personnel and members of the public are invited to attend.
The guest speaker is Bridget Flint from Hastings Secondary College Port Macquarie Campus.
Flashback: To the 2018 Anzac Day service in Port Macquarie
Kendall
Kendall's Anzac Day is the only service in NSW where a pony club participates.
Members of the Camden Haven Pony Club have been part of the traditional service for a number of years.
Organisers say they are pleased to see the club's members participating.
The Kendall RSL sub branch will host its traditional dawn service at the cenotaph at 5.30pm.
The commemoration service and march will begin at 10am opposite the general store in Comboyne Street.
Member for Port Mcquarie Leslie Williams will be attending this 10am service.
A number of Air Force cadets and several several naval officers from Canberra will be attending.
Members are asked to form up from 9.30am and be ready to move off at 10am sharp.
Comboyne Street will be closed to the public from 9.30am until 11am for the service.
If the weather is unkind, the service will be held at the Kendall School of Arts Hall. Following the service, the community is welcome to retire to the Kendall Services and Citizen's Club on Graham Street.
For more details contact sub branch president Lance Gainey on 6559 4478.
Flashback: To the 2018 Anzac Day service in Kendall
Laurieton
The Laurieton RSL Sub Branch's Anzac Day commemorations begin at 5.30am on Wednesday, April 25 with a dawn service at the memorial park on Kew Road.
The march will begin outside the Laurieton United Services Club step off at 10.30am. Marchers are asked to assemble outside the club at 10.20am. The service will commence at 11am, sharp.
The parade will march along Seymour and Bold Streets to the cenotaph at the memorial park.
Transport for ex-service men and women who are unable to march, will be provided courtesy of the Hastings Auto Restorers Club. If the weather is severe, the service will be held at the LUSC.
Laurieton Voices have been invited to attend the dawn and main service.
Flashback: To the 2018 Anzac Day service in Laurieton
Wauchope
Wauchope, marchers for the dawn service are asked to assemble at the Wauchope cenotaph at 5.45am.
There will be no dawn march this year.
Wauchope RSL will open for breakfast at 6.30am. Cost is $15 per person.
The morning service gets underway with veterans requiring a lift and marchers to assemble at 10.15am at the Wauchope RSL Club.
Vehicles will move off along Cameron Street at 10.20am with a fall in for the march to the cenotaph bia Cameron and High streets to start at 10.30am.
The remembrance ceremony commences at the cenotaph at 11am, sharp.
This year at the 11am service, for the first time, we are having a piper play while wreaths are being laid, just to provide some colour to what usually is a slow limited participation period of the service.
Also the 3000 poppies which were assembled at the Cenotaph for the 2018 Armistice Day anniversary, will again dress the Cenotaph surrounds in red.
On completion of service, a luncheon will be held at noon at the Wauchope RSL for sub-branch members and guests.
Entry is by ticket only.
The Wauchope RSL sub-branch encourages and invites all relatives of deceased service personnel to join the march and wear medals on their right breast.
Flashback: To the 2018 Anzac Day service in Wauchope