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Rooch in his double pager today talks about Anzac round and discusses Peter Chant and his on going effect on his 9RAR mate and the footy club.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...t/news-story/c54fe2f543c7f80bfbda1f4a9d97e9bb
LEST we forget ...
Australian football is wrapping itself in patriotism this weekend, all the way to the now-showcase Essendon-Collingwood game at the MCG on Anzac Day. Port Adelaide last night opened the Anzac Round with a home game at Adelaide Oval — an event the Power will never take off its annual request list to the AFL with the fixture. The match — and all its justified tributes — draws memories to the club’s patriarch, navy serviceman Fos Williams. He not only encouraged the Diggers to continue beyond the Anzac Day march to Adelaide Oval, but he put many of them in the Port Adelaide changerooms as a reminder of the men they were to honour in a football game.
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This Anzac weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Peter Chant — who played 10 SANFL league games with Port Adelaide in 1961-62 — signing up for the regular army. Two years later, Chant was killed as his unit, 9 Platoon Charlie Company 9RAR, was trapped in a Vietcong bunker ambush.
It also is the 50th anniversary of the 9RAR being formed, a moment that will be recalled with a ceremony in Adelaide in November. Their legacy with the Port Adelaide Football Club is not only with Chant’s memory but next month’s historic AFL clash in Shanghai. The Power’s path to China was marked four years ago when a group of Vietnam veterans, including Hong Kong-based Port Adelaide supporter Denis Way, gathered in Adelaide for the Anzac tributes and to remember Chant. One of these Vietnam veterans, Mick Mummery OAM, keeps returning for any Anzac round clash hosted by Port Adelaide.
He does not hide his emotions when the videoscreens at Adelaide Oval carry an honour roll of Port Adelaide footballers who have served — and lost their lives, as Chant did on Valentine’s Day 1969. “That moment gets very close to the bone,” Mummery says. “And it takes me some time — up to quarter-time — for me to get over the emotion of the Anzac ceremonies and the minute’s silence at the start of the game. It is very hard for me to explain what this Anzac round means to those of us who have served. “This is a moment of recognition, a reminder of those who went away — and the loved ones who did not return and how the rest of us live with that loss. “And it should go beyond Collingwood and Essendon. “It is far more than Collingwood and Essendon. It is an event with Port Adelaide. And the Anzac game at Adelaide Oval serves as a very significant reminder of the Anzac story to all those who attend.”
Lest we forget ...
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...t/news-story/c54fe2f543c7f80bfbda1f4a9d97e9bb
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...t/news-story/c54fe2f543c7f80bfbda1f4a9d97e9bb
LEST we forget ...
Australian football is wrapping itself in patriotism this weekend, all the way to the now-showcase Essendon-Collingwood game at the MCG on Anzac Day. Port Adelaide last night opened the Anzac Round with a home game at Adelaide Oval — an event the Power will never take off its annual request list to the AFL with the fixture. The match — and all its justified tributes — draws memories to the club’s patriarch, navy serviceman Fos Williams. He not only encouraged the Diggers to continue beyond the Anzac Day march to Adelaide Oval, but he put many of them in the Port Adelaide changerooms as a reminder of the men they were to honour in a football game.
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This Anzac weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Peter Chant — who played 10 SANFL league games with Port Adelaide in 1961-62 — signing up for the regular army. Two years later, Chant was killed as his unit, 9 Platoon Charlie Company 9RAR, was trapped in a Vietcong bunker ambush.
It also is the 50th anniversary of the 9RAR being formed, a moment that will be recalled with a ceremony in Adelaide in November. Their legacy with the Port Adelaide Football Club is not only with Chant’s memory but next month’s historic AFL clash in Shanghai. The Power’s path to China was marked four years ago when a group of Vietnam veterans, including Hong Kong-based Port Adelaide supporter Denis Way, gathered in Adelaide for the Anzac tributes and to remember Chant. One of these Vietnam veterans, Mick Mummery OAM, keeps returning for any Anzac round clash hosted by Port Adelaide.
He does not hide his emotions when the videoscreens at Adelaide Oval carry an honour roll of Port Adelaide footballers who have served — and lost their lives, as Chant did on Valentine’s Day 1969. “That moment gets very close to the bone,” Mummery says. “And it takes me some time — up to quarter-time — for me to get over the emotion of the Anzac ceremonies and the minute’s silence at the start of the game. It is very hard for me to explain what this Anzac round means to those of us who have served. “This is a moment of recognition, a reminder of those who went away — and the loved ones who did not return and how the rest of us live with that loss. “And it should go beyond Collingwood and Essendon. “It is far more than Collingwood and Essendon. It is an event with Port Adelaide. And the Anzac game at Adelaide Oval serves as a very significant reminder of the Anzac story to all those who attend.”
Lest we forget ...
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...t/news-story/c54fe2f543c7f80bfbda1f4a9d97e9bb