2023 ANZAC Day in the Inner West
Wednesday 12 April 2023
Inner West Council and Balmain-Rozelle RSL will hold an ANZAC Day Commemorative Dawn Service at Balmain’s Loyalty Square from 5.45am on Tuesday 25 April.
Balmain War Memorial has a venerable history. It was unveiled on Sunday 23 April 1916 – with the First World War (or The Great War as it was then known) still raging in Europe, and before the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.
During that Great War, around 5,000 men from Balmain enlisted – this was just about all of those eligible in the precinct.
The memorial initially commemorated the local men who had died in the Dardanelles campaign.
The 38 local men who perished on Turkish shores have their names on four marble tablets, one on each side of the monument. Since then, new names were added from later wars.
There will also be the following events across the Inner West:
- Ashfield RSL Sub Branch will host a Sunday service at 10.15am on 23 April at Ashfield Park
- Petersham RSL will host an ANZAC concert from 2.30pm on Sunday 23 April
- Transit Systems will host a service at 7am on 25 April at Tempe Bus Depot
Further information available at: www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/explore/whats-on/events-in-detail/anzac-day