ANZAC Remembrance Service

This morning, as we spend our morning at sea en route to Dubai, CD Ray conducted the ANZAC remembrance service on deck 9. In attendance were 30 passengers, mostly from Australia and New Zealand — the two countries that formed the corps — and two Turks … Mui and me.

This is the second such service we have attended, the first one being on RTW2017. CD Ray did a great job.

The service consisted of the reading of the Ode, the playing of the Last Post, and the reading by CD Ray of Atatürk’s Letter to the Mothers of the ANZAC soldiers who lost their lives in Gallipoli. We wrapped up with a group recitation of “In Flanders Field,” a poem written by John McCrae in 1914, and the Lord’s Prayer.

A very moving remembrance ceremony.Read more