ANZAC Day is one of the most significant days of the year in Australia and a golf club in Perth has prepared a special commemoration for the Centenary year.

Cottesloe Golf Club has a strong connection to ANZAC Day
with 27 of its past Members having served at Gallipoli during the first World War.

Even Wisdom, the Club President when war broke out, headed
up the training camp for West Australian soldiers before serving in Gallipoli
where he was awarded a Distinguished Service Order (DSO).

Another Cottesloe member to have received a DSO was Father John
Fahey who served with the 11^th Battalion at Gallipoli. The well
known Chaplain defied orders, and was one of the first to reach the beach, not
wanting to be separated from his men.

Lead by former Club Captain Phil Ryan, who is the great-nephew
of Father John, Cottesloe members have prepared a moving tribute to honour the
ANZAC spirit.

Inside the club’s practice bunker, 1600 sandbags were filled
to recreate Quinn’s Post, a set of trenches renowned to be one of the most
dangerous places in Gallipoli.

While the lady members handmade 9000 red poppy’s to flank an
ANZAC 100 sign constructed out of a vertical garden of rosemary cultivated from
a bush in Gallipoli.

"I am very proud with how the display has turned out, it was
not at all what I had in mind, but the members really got behind it and made it
something truly special," said Ryan.

"I am certainly inspired by the memory of my grand-uncle
both by what he did but his expressed love of the Australian soldier."

"We had four junior members helping with the construction,
to me that speaks volumes about the ANZAC memory being kept alive, that keeps
encouraging us to do what we have done."

Cottesloe Golf Club will also hold a dawn service at 6am where,
thanks to the efforts of Life Member Kay Briggs, 103 family members of the
ANZAC’S will be in attendance.

Another service will be held at 11:15am where the war
veterans of Cottesloe Golf Club will march.

96-year-old World War II veteran Jimma Pope will lead the
march which includes servicemen from across all generations; returned
serviceman from Vietnam and Korea will all walk proudly alongside each other as
well as family members in memory of their loved ones passed.

Cottesloe’s connection to the armed services doesn’t end there;
the club was proudly serviced by PGA Professional Dan Cullen DFC who was a
decorated fighter pilot during World War II and it also shares a very close
relationship with its neighbour, the SAS’s Campbell Barracks.