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Westminster Abbey A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving to mark ANZAC Day Friday 25 th April 2014 Noon HISTORICAL NOTE T is ninety-nine years since the landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 th April 1915. In the heroic campaign that followed, the casualties on bIoth sides were 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 New Zealand flag is borne by Lieutenant Philip Davies. The Australian flag is borne by Warrant Officer II Jason Watkins. The Turkish flag is borne by Warrant Officer II Halil Yıldız. The flag of the United Kingdom is borne by Warrant Officer II (Company Sergeant Major) Samuel Brooks, 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 The service is conducted by the Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster. 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 Daniel Cook, Sub-Organist. The Fanfare Trumpeters from the Band of the Grenadier Guards, directed by Major Kevin Davies, Director of Music, perform by kind permission of Major-General Edward Smyth-Osbourne CBE , Major-General commanding The Household Division. Music before the service: Martin Ford, Assistant Organist, plays: Sonata in C Op 65 no 2 Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) Sospiri Edward Elgar (1857–1934) The Choir of St Catherine’s School, Waverley, New South Wales, Australia sings: The Arafura Dan Walker (b 1978) The Concert Band of St Catherine’s School plays: The Man from Snowy River Bruce Rowland (b 1942) The Orchestra of St Catherine’s School plays: Collected Songs of the Settlers Anthony Dunstan (b 1982 ) The String Ensemble of St Catherine’s School plays: String Symphony no 7 in D minor Felix Mendelssohn 3 The Choir of St Catherine’s School sings : Love me sweet Carl Vine (b 1954) The Sub-Organist plays: Fantasia on ‘Vexilla Regis’ Edgar Bainton (1880 –1956) 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 The Duke of Gloucester is received. All stand. 4 ORDER OF SERVICE All remain standing as the Collegiate Procession, together with His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester, moves to places in Quire and the Sacrarium. All remain standing for 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. 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. 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 sing THE HYMN during which the flags of New Zealand, Australia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom are carried through the church and placed in the Sacrarium VALIANT hearts, who to your glory came through dust of conflict and through battle flame; tOranquil you lie, your knightly virtue proved, your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Proudly you gathered, rank on rank, to war, as who had heard God’s message from afar; all you had hoped for, all you had, you gave to save mankind—yourselves you scorned to save. Splendid you passed, the great surrender made, into the light that never more shall fade; deep your contentment in that blest abode, who wait the last clear trumpet-call of God. Long years ago, as earth lay dark and still, rose a loud cry upon a lonely hill, while in the frailty of our human clay Christ, our Redeemer, passed the self-same way. 6 O risen Lord, O Shepherd of our dead, whose Cross has bought them and whose staff has led, in glorious hope their proud and sorrowing land commits her children to thy gracious hand. The Supreme Sacrifice John Stanhope Arkwright (1872–1954) Charles Harris (1865–1936) All sit. His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir Lockwood Smith, High Commissioner for New Zealand, reads from the Nave Pulpit MICAH 4: 1–5 N days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised up above the hills. PIeoples shall stream to it, and many nations shall come and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more; but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. For all the peoples walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. The Choir sings PSALM 85 ORD, thou art become gracious unto thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. TLhou hast forgiven the offence of thy people: and covered all their sins. Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure: and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation. Turn us then, O God our Saviour: and let thine anger cease from us. Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us: that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Shew us thy mercy, O Lord: and grant us thy salvation. I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not again. For his salvation is nigh them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall flourish out of the earth: and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall shew loving-kindness: and our land shall give her increase. Righteousness shall go before him: and he shall direct his going in the way. 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. Charles Harford Lloyd (1849–1919) All remain seated. His Excellency The Honourable Mike Rann, High Commissioner for Australia, reads from the Great Lectern ST JOHN 15: 9–17 S the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kAept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. ‘This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.