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FLASHBACK: The 49th Battalion’s banner is carried proudly at a previous Reserve Forces Day parade in Wondai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 2, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reserve Forces Day commemorations will be going ahead this weekend in Wondai, although there are contingency plans in place should key events be rained out.<\/p>\n

Organiser Noel Selway said unfortunately the social bowls day – the Wondai Armed Forces Shield Challenge – which was to be played at the Wondai Golf & Bowls Club on Saturday had been cancelled due to the weather.<\/p>\n

However, the meet’n’greet for visitors who have travelled to Wondai for the main commemoration will still go ahead on Saturday night at the Wondai Diggers Club from 5:30pm.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the flag-raising and wreathlaying ceremony will be held at the Cenotaph in front of the Wondai Council Chambers at 10:00am.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the event is rained out, the service will be moved inside the Wondai Diggers Club.<\/p>\n

The Brisbane lockdown has meant the guest speaker, retired Squadron Leader John Burgess, 92, from the Pine Rivers RSL Sub-Branch, will not be able to attend.<\/p>\n

The parade will assemble at 11:00am in Mackenzie Street, near the post office, and march off towards the Cenotaph.<\/p>\n

Noel said uniformed soldiers from the Reserve\u00a025th\/49th RQR Battalion will be travelling from Toowoomba to take part in the parade.<\/p>\n

Members of the Australian Light Horse Association re-enactment troop, from Gympie, will also be taking part, as well as military vehicles from John Kratzmann’s collection at Windera.<\/p>\n

Noel said Reserve Forces Day was an opportunity to honour the more than two million Australian who have served as Reserves in all three services since 1948.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It’s significant and it acknowledges that they are not forgotten, even in a small place like Wondai,” Noel said.<\/p>\n

Wondai has proud links with the Army Reserves \u2013 and the former Citizens Military Forces (CMF) \u2013 through its hosting of a depot of the 25th\/49th RQR.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Members have served in both World Wars and, more recently, in the Solomon Islands, East Timor, the Sinai, Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Wondai is believed to be one of the few towns across Australia that still salutes the service of Reserves on Reserve Forces Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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