The 520 seats at the George Street approach were quietly taken, with standing room not only along both sides of the cenotaph but along the entire length of Martin Place in one of the largest crowds in recent years. The RSL said the crowd totalled 8380 – up from 7100 last year.
Among those attending included NSW Governor Margaret Beazley, NSW Premier Chris Minns who read the poem Salute by Sydney Rapier, and NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb.It is not unusual at the dawn service in Martin Place to see a veteran wearing a couple of medals on their right breast opposite their own worn on the left. The right are those of a relative.
“I’m not 100 per cent sure because during the Second World War Kew was bombed and a lot of records were lost. You get bits and pieces but we think he won the Distinguished Conduct Medal in the Boer War. We think he may have swum across – under fire – a river to deliver a message. He won the Military Cross as a warrant officer first class, which was unusual, they are usually only for officers.
“He walked into the theatre naked. There was blood all over the operating table. The doctor was in a blood-covered apron. He was supposed to have what they these days call an epidural, but they just stuffed a big piece of cloth in his mouth, then operated on him. Out of those seven, there were only two survivors. He suffered when he came back too.”Dean also has his own medals.
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