NSW: Big Anzac Day crowds expected statewide

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2006
NSW: Big Anzac Day crowds expected statewide

The RSL expects record crowds at Anzac Day services across New South Wales tomorrow.

About 25 thousand people attended the dawn service at the Cenotaph in Sydney's Martin
Place last year .. to mark the 90th anniversary of the ill-fated landings at Gallipoli
in 1915.

That was 10 thousand up on the previous year.

State RSL president DON ROWE says there are no more World War I veterans left to march
.. and an ageing number of World War II vets .. so people want to show their thanks while
they can.







Mr ROWE says there will be more people at Anzac Day services wherever there's a memorial
.. whether it be in Sydney's Martin Place or on the side of a country road.

At Broken Hill .. in the state's far west .. 250 service men and women are tipped to
march through the streets of the city of 20 thousand people.

And Bathurst RSL .. in central New South Wales .. is expecting up to 400 people to
brave early morning temperatures as low as minus 2 degrees for the dawn service.

AAP RTV nr/hn/rt/bart

KEYWORD: ANZAC NSW (SYDNEY)

2006 AAP Information Services Pty Limited (AAP) or its Licensors.