July 1, 2025
Wondai’s annual salute to the brave Reserve Forces members who have served Australia both at home and abroad for more than a century is on again this Sunday.
Sunday’s program of events includes:
- 9:30am – Bugle call at the monument outside Wondai Memorial Hall, followed by a flag-raising and wreathlaying ceremony at 10:00am
- 11:00am – The march down Mackenzie Street will begin from near the Wondai Post Office, then pass through Coronation Park to the Percy Iszlaub Soundshell where another formal ceremony will be held. Attendees will then be invited for fellowship at the Wondai Diggers Club
This year’s event will recall and honour the service of the Australian Army in 1945.
Reserve Forces Day attendees often come early to enjoy some of the other activities planned over the weekend.
They have been offered the opportunity to take part in a bowls day at the Wondai Club on Saturday from 10:00am, with scratch teams representing the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Wondai is believed to be the last town in Queensland – and one of the last in Australia – to mark Reserve Forces Day.
The town has proud links with the Army Reserves – and the former Citizens Military Forces – through its hosting of a depot of the 25/49 Royal Queensland Regiment.
25/49 RQR has a distinguished lineage, tracing its roots back to the 8th Company Queensland Volunteer Rifle Brigade which was formed in Toowoomba in 1875.
Members have served in both World Wars and, more recently, in the Solomon Islands, East Timor, the Sinai, Iraq and Afghanistan.
