This for Margo @777margo and all my friends down under.
I promised that I would take some shots of ANZAC Day commemorations which take place in Malta. They are held in a military cemetery in Pieta’ where Gallipoli victims who died in Malta are buried. I had never been in this cemetery before as it is always closed, except on special occasions.
This shot shows this guy with an Australian accent delivering his speech. Shot taken from a distance. Behind him is the memorial flanked by a detachment of buglers from the Malta Armed Forces and standard bearers – I recognise among them, in the middle, my brother who carries the K.O.M.R. (King’s Own Malta Regiment) standard and to his right the AFM (Armed Forces of Malta) standard bearer.
All the countries that have an embassy in Malta were represented at the ceremony.
Joke: Airman Jones was assigned to the induction center, where he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. It wasn't long before Captain Smith noticed that Airman Jones was having a staggeringly high success-rate, selling insurance to nearly 100% of the recruits he advised. Rather than ask about this, the Captain stood in the back of the room and listened to Jones' sales pitch. Jones explained the basics of the GI Insurance to the new recruits, and then said: "If you have GI Insurance and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don't have GI insurance, and you go into battle and get killed, the government only has to pay a maximum of $6000. Now," he concluded, "which group do you think they are going to send into battle first?"
Many thanks for looking and for commenting on my yesterday's picture.
Great documentary shot. I got curiosity and readed about Gallipoli ( I only remember that It was a battle from IWW), a pitty the lost of all these lives.
