Anzac Day continued…


Following the Anzac Day Commemoration Service, floral wreaths were laid at the Anzac Memorial on behalf of our community organizations - the Memorial Clubrooms, the Log Cabin, the Country Club, the school and others.


Dennis


Sargent is pictured laying a wreath on behalf of the RSL and Maisie Thompson representing the wider Gooloogong community.. At the conclusion of the service the students of Gooloogong Public School assembled to lead the singing of our National Anthem (pictured). What followed then was Morning Tea in the park supplied by the community.


Private THOMAS SLATER


Many of the soldiers who went away to fight in WWI were little more than boys. One of our local soldiers named in the Anzac service was Thomas Slater. Born around 1895 at Goolagong the son of George Mitchell Slater and Elizabeth Sarah Slater, Tom was a student of Goolagong Public School. At 21 he enlisted in the AIF (56th Battalion 2nd Reinforcements) at Cootamundra on 19th January, 1916. On 14th April he embarked on HMAT ‘Ceramic’, destined for France. It was there, in the field in the Somme, on 20th August, 1918 that 22 year old Thomas Slater was killed in action. He was buried in Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery,


in the


Somme Valley, France. (National Archives, AIF Project UNSW/ADFA )


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