On Tuesday morning 26/06/2017, a Headstone Rededication Ceremony took place at Tyne Cot Cemetery at Passendale. Two Australian soldiers finally got a headstone with their name on it and this thanks to the efforts of the Fallen Diggers Organisation. It are Lance Corporal James Allan Launchbury and Private Charles Gordon Williams. Both soldiers were part of the 25th Machine Gun Company - 1st Australian Imperial Force and died on 05/10/1917.

Please find below some pictures of the ceremony.



The Australian Army Band



Reading of LCPL Launchbury's Service Record




 
After the unveiling of the Headstone with epigraph "Remembered always by the Launchbury family of Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia", Chaplain Peter Willis preformed the Prayer and Blessing of the Headstone



Reading of PTE Williams's Service Record



Unveiling of the Headstone with epigraph "Our darling boy" "Written by his Mother, Ellen Williams, Christmas Eve 1917".



Prayer and Blessing of the Headstone.



Poem



Wreath Laying







Ode of Remembrance



Last Post









After One Minute's Silence the Rouse was played.



Some music







After this ceremony, the delegation stopped at two other headstones, in both cases recipients of the Victoria Cross: Captain Clarence Smith Jeffries and Sergeant Lewis McGee. Here the VIP's planted crosses at the bottom of the headstones.

Reading of Captain Clarence Smith Jeffries VC's Service Record.



Planting of a Cross.













Reading of Sergeant Lewis McGee Vc's Service Record.





Crosses were planted also.



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