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Squadron Leader Tony Banner and RAAF Base Townsville personnel lead the main Anzac Day march in Cairns. As well as local area ceremonial and parade commitments in Townsville, Thuringowa and Magnetic Island on Anzac Day, RAAF Townsville members attended marches and services at 25 separate locations – including Longreach, Cairns, Charters Towers, Cooktown and Hamilton Island – to represent the Air Force on the important day.     Warrant Officer George Stirzaker (ret’d), in wheelchair, leads the ex-apprentice and Junior Equipment Assistant Trainees element of the Anzac Day parade at Wagga Wagga. The Wombats, apprentices who attended the RAAF School of Technical Training during 1958-60, held a reunion in the NSW city from April 24-26. Ex-WOFF Stirzaker was their squadron commander in 1960.     Sale Primary School Year 6 students (from left) Cassie Grmusa, Olivia Laws, Laura Bowman, Beth Goodsell and Patrick Rowe at the school’s cenotaph. The five Junior School Councillors organised the school’s Anzac Day ceremony, attended by the School of Air Navigation Commanding Officer at RAAF Base East Sale, Wing Commander Tony Forestier, who was impressed by the respect and spirit the school’s children had for the occasion.     Defence Health's Kim Templeton presents Corporal Russell Huxley, of No. 382 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron at RAAF Base Amberley, with a St. John's first aid kit for being the 55,000th member of Defence Health. Also in attendance is CPL Huxley’s fiance Lisa.     The No. 3 Combat Support Hospital contingent that has deployed from RAAF Base Richmond to East Timor in support of Operation Citadel. They arrived in Timor in early May for a six-month deployment. Photo by LAC Ben Dempster