28 Apr 2025

News 2025

Anzac Day at St Paul’s

On the 110th anniversary of the Anzac landings, 25 April, the College community gathered for the annual service of commemoration in the Chapel. The day is very important in the College calendar and for students to remember the sacrifices made in war. 47 Paulines laid down their lives in battle and are commemorated on the memorial wall of the College Chapel. The address by Rev’d Dave Schweinsberg, the senior Defence Force Chaplain – Sydney, was a powerful reflection on the devastation of war and its personal impact, the struggle for peace through military service, and the Christian ethos of love.

In the pictures are: the students gathering before heading off to the Sydney Anzac March; the Anzac address (above); Kate Brennan reading the first lesson; Jack Dawson reading the second lesson; Graduate House Prefect Claudio Garcia Ramirez with Senior Student Tilly Walker laying the wreath.

The service was led by Chaplain Rev’d Antony Weiss with wonderful music directed by Dr Jack Stephens and the College Chapel Choir accompanied by Organist and Composer-in-Residence David Drury and Undergraduate Organ Scholar Bailey Yaates. Rupert Begg on trumpet sounded Last Post and Reveille.

We will remember them. Lest We Forget.