A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to Mark ANZAC Day
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26012 Anzac service:. 19/4/13 12:06 Page 1 Westminster Abbey A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day Thursday 25 th April 2013 Noon 26012 Anzac service:. 19/4/13 12:06 Page 2 HISTORICAL NOTE T is 9 8 years since the landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 th April 1915. In the heroic campaign that followed, the casualties on both sides wIere heavy. Of the Allied Forces —from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Newfoundland, and India —some 50,000 lost their lives. The total number of casualties on the Allied side at Gallipoli, including those wounded or evacuated for sickness, was some 250,000 . The Turkish forces lost over 86,000 and also sustained a high number of wounded. Australian and New Zealand forces fought for the first time under a united command as the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or , more famously , the ANZACs. In both countries, ANZAC Day, 25 th April, not only commemorates those first landings at Gallipoli , but also all the Australians and New Zealanders who have given their lives in the service of their countries. The whole of the church is served by a hearing loop. Users should turn their hearing aids to the setting marked T. The Australian flag is borne by Warrant Officer II Chris Grant . The New Zealand flag is borne by Lieutenant Daniel Edginton . The Turkish flag is borne by Sergeant Major Kenan Yaşsar . The flag of the United Kingdom is borne by Company Sergeant Major Howard Lawn, Nijmegen Company, Grenadier Guards. Members of the congregation are kindly requested to refrain from using private cameras, video, or sound recording equipment. Please ensure that mobile phones, pagers, and other electronic devices are switched off. Hymns covered by Christian Copyright Licensing (Europe) Ltd are reproduced under CCL no 1040271 and MRL no1040288. 2 26012 Anzac service:. 19/4/13 12:06 Page 3 The service is sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir, conducted by James O’Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers. The organ is played by Martin Ford , Assistant Organist . The Fanfare Trumpeters from the Band of the Welsh Guards perform by kind permission of Major General G P Norton CBE , Major General commanding The Household Division. Music before the service: Peter Holder , Organ Scholar, plays: Sonata in D Op 65 no 6 Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) Adagio in E Frank Bridge (1879–1941) Solemn Prelude—In memoriam Edward Elgar (1857–1934) from For the Fallen His Excellency the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey is received at the Great West Door by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster , and is conducted to his place in Quire. All remain seated. His Excellency The High Commissioner for Australia and His Excellency The High Commissioner for New Zealand are received. All remain seated. The Lord Mayor of Westminster is received , and is conducted to her place in Quire. All stand, and then sit. His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent KCVO KS tJ is received . All stand . 3 26012 Anzac service:. 19/4/13 12:06 Page 4 ORDER OF SERVICE All remain standing as the Collegiate Procession, together with His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent KCVO KS tJ, moves to places in Quire and the Sacrarium. All sing THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OD save our gracious Queen, long live our noble Queen, God save The Queen. Send her victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us: God save The Queen. Thesaurus Musicus (c1743) arranged by Gordon Jacob (1895 –1984) All remain standing. The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster , gives THE BIDDING HE landing of allied forces at Gallipoli on 25 th April 1915 led to one of the bloodiest battles of the First World War. Australian and New ZTealand forces joined together for the first time , and a new word entered the language: ANZAC. Remembering that so many died, we honour the bravery and determination of the men at Gallipoli. The memory of what became known as The Great War is with us as a warning and an encouragement. We are warned that war involves suffering and death; we are encouraged by the spirit of national pride shown by the soldiers we remember this ANZAC Day. As the Union Flag and the flags of Australia and New Zealand are presented at the High Altar with the flag of Turkey in a sign of the reconciliation of old enemies, let us renew our own commitment to the causes of justice and peace throughout the world . We keep silence as we come into the presence of God. 4 26012 Anzac service:. 19/4/13 12:06 Page 5 Silence is kept. IGHTEOUSNESS and justice are the foundation of your throne: R steadfast love and faithfulness go before your face. Psalm 89: 14 All remain standing. A fanfare and organ introduction is played, following which all sing THE HYMN during which the flags of Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom are carried through the church and placed in the Sacrarium LL people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; hAim serve with fear, his praise forth tell, come ye before him, and rejoice. The Lord, ye know, is God indeed; without our aid he did us make; we are his folk, he doth us feed, and for his sheep he doth us take. Choir O enter then his gates with praise, approach with joy his courts unto; praise, laud, and bless his name always, for it is seemly so to do. All For why? the Lord our God is good; his mercy is for ever sure; his truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from age to age endure. 5 26012 Anzac service:. 19/4/13 12:06 Page 6 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the God whom heaven and earth adore, from men and from the angel-host be praise and glory evermore. Amen. Old 100th 100 AMNS Psalm 100 melody in Genevan Psalter 1551 paraphrased W Kethe (d 1594) arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) in Anglo-Genevan Psalter 1560 All sit. His Excellency The Honourable Mike Rann CNZM , High Commissioner for Australia , reads from the Nave Pulpit ECCLESIASTES 3: 1–8 OR everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time tFo pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. The Choir sings PSALM 121 WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help . My help cometh even from the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth. HIe will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee will not sleep. Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand; So that the sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in: from this time forth for evermore. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941) 6 26012 Anzac service:. 19/4/13 12:06 Page 7 All remain seated. His Excellency The Right Honourable Dr Lockwood Smith, High Commissioner for New Zealand , reads from the Great Lectern 1 ST JOHN 4: 7–16 ELOVED , let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who lives is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love dBoes not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world. God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God. So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. THE ADDRESS by The Dean All remain seated. The Choir sings THE ANTHEM during which the Dean, together with the High Commissioners of Australia and New Zealand, processes to the Grave of the Unknown Warrior ND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.