Bells of Boorowa churches and schools will ring out on Monday to mark the centenary of the beginning of World War 1.
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Ringing of the bells will take place at 11am on Monday (August 4).
The gesture will be part of the Boorowa Remembers project, which is encouraging local people, and visitors on Anzac Day 2015 to join in special commemoration of family members who served.
Many Boorowa men were involved in World War 1 battles in the Middle East, at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
The war was the most costly in which Australia has been involved, with 60,000 losing their lives and 156,000 either being wounded or taken prisoner.
This was at a time when the Australian population was less than five million.
The attitude of the time is indicated by a speech by the then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, who claimed that Australia would support Great Britain ‘to the last man and the last shilling.’
The men and women who served in this conflict were all volunteers, as there was no conscription.
When you hear the bells on Monday morning, please give a thought to those who served the nation in all conflicts, and the local people who paid the supreme sacrifice.
