Dee Why RSL Sub-Branch Committee
Meets the first Wednesday of each month (except January) from 5pm.
Phone: 9454 4084

Dee Why RSL Ex-Servicewomen’s Group
Meets the first Wednesday of each month (except January) from 11am.
Phone: 9454 4092

Dee Why RSL Sub-Branch
Meets the first Wednesday of each month (except January) from 7pm. New members and visiting Sub-Branch members especially welcome. Refreshments are served at the conclusion of the meeting.
Phone: 9454 4084

Dee Why Day Club for Seniors
Meets every Monday from 10am (except Public Holidays) Contact: Hank Scheffers
Ph: 9982 7446

ANZAC Sunday - The Sunday prior to 25th April
On the Sunday prior to ANZAC Day, Dee Why RSL Sub-Branch members and invited guests march from the Club to Dee Why Beach where a Commemoration Service is held. Afterwards, marchers return to the Club for the traditional Smoko function. Only Dee Why RSL Sub-Branch members who have purchased entry tickets from the lower reception (tickets are $2) are permitted to attend the Smoko function.

ANZAC Day - 25th April
A sunrise service will be held from 6.15am at the Club’s War Memorial (on the corner of Pittwater Road and Hawkesbury Avenue). All interested parties are welcome to attend.

Marchers need to assemble in the Club’s car park by 2.30pm. The March leaves the car park at 2.45pm and proceeds down Richmond Avenue en route to the beach. The March, which is made up of members of the Dee Why RSL Sub-Branch, invited guests, the Warringah Concert Brass Band, local Cadets and Scouts, etc., receives a police escort to and from the beach. A free bus, departing from the Club at 2.30pm and returning after the service, is provided for anyone unable to march.

The Commemoration Service will be held from 3pm at the reserve in front of
Dee Why Beach (opposite Howard Avenue). All interested parties are
welcome to attend.

Remembrance Day Service - 11th November
A Remembrance service will be held in the Club’s Memorial Garden from 10.30am. All interested parties are welcome to attend. Coffee and tea will be available after the service.

Remembrance Day - 11th November
At 11am the Club will observe one minute’s silence. The Ode of Remembrance will be recited at 11am and at the regular time of 6pm.

THE WAR MEMORIAL
The design, whilst a departure from traditional memorials and monuments, aims to capture the essence of the RSL’s movement in all it’s facets. The memorial was officially opened at a ceremony on Friday November 15 2002, by Bruce Ruxton, and attended by Tony Abbott Leader of the House and Minister for Health and Ageing along with Bronwyn Bishop MP Federal Member for Mackellar, as well as representatives of the Sub-Branch and other dignitaries.

DEE WHY RSL WAR MEMORIAL
The formal, regimented, linear elements purvey a sense of order and calm allowing for and evoking in people the need for positive and respective thanks and contemplation of those who have fought for our freedom and social values. Repetition of the vertical stone and glass forms presents the concept of strength in unity. The verticality of the envisaged piece represents man's aspirations, striving to reach a goal, aiming to triumph. The staggered top represents that all do not make it but their support is imperative to ultimate success. The staggered top also alludes to a sense of continuance.

The material
A vertical progression occurs in the suggested materials, which alludes to growth and change through experience. In war the personality and character of each person and nation has to develop a cold, hard, tough facade. Sensitivity and vulnerability must be maintained but shrouded.

Lower vertical slats are to be of Australian hardwood eg; Iron bark, this represents “natural strength”. The bronze band (the only area to have recognizable pictorial imagery) represents “man made strength”. The middle section is to be highly polished granite to represent the cold hard facade, which must be held during war. The top section is granite with an exfoliated or sand blasted surface; representing the dropping of the tough facade, however, the character will never go back to exactly what it was because it has been changed by war / experience.

The glass vertical elements represent the continuance of spirit, goodness, fragility, sensitivity, and humility……all admirable humane attributes, which flow through the core and uphold the facade. The light from within shines out.

The Ode
They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

“Lest we forget”