The Remembrance Day service on November 11 will be of huge significance to the Mitchells Island, Oxley Island and Bohnock communities.
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The Mitchells Island Hall committee will bring its World War I honour roll to place on display beside that of Oxley Island's while the Bohnock community will add a commemorative plaque from its own demolished hall.
The unique service at Oxley Island Hall will be the only one of its kind at the hall in 100 years.
It will begin with the bugler sounding Long 'G'; a note historically used calling soldiers to fall in on the right marker.
Andrew Murray, an Iraq veteran of of Australia's Second Cavalry Regiment, will conduct the service.
Wreath laying will be led by the Oxley Island Hall committee honouring World War I diggers.
Representing those who served in World War II will be 101-year-old New Guinea veteran George Weiley.
Current citizen of the year Dennis Marriott and Rodney O'Regan OAM VA will represent the Korea and Vietnam conflicts and Paul Toohey will lay a wreath for contemporary veterans.
In attendance will be representative groups from the Mitchells Island Rural Fire Brigade and the Mitchells Island School.
Oxley Island’s Elwyn Layton, daughter of World War I veteran Bill Layton whose name is on the honour roll, will assist George Weiley in unveiling the memorial library which has been relocated to the hall from the now closed Oxley Island School.
As the unveiling finishes the bugler will sound the General Salute.
Tony Mitchell is rehearsing an island choir of eight which will render Song of Australia, Lead Kindly Light and Advance Australia Fair.
At 11am when the guns fell silent on the Western Front 100 years ago to the hour, Rodney O'Regan of the Australian Light Horse Association will recite the Ode To The Fallen and the bugler will sound Last Post and Rouse.
The hall committee will serve lunch at the end of the ceremony.
A recent count revealed 70 young men signed up from the locality and that nineteen of those are listed among 'the fallen'.