DEDICATION

ANZAC DAY 2010 – 25 APRIL

COPYRIGHT OF SUNBURNT FLAG SYMBOLICALLY DEDICATED TO THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE

Dedicated also to special people in my life who have passed –

My father Bruce H Berry

My ‘Adopted’ Aboriginal Little Sister Linda Laurel Golding

My RAAF pilot uncle who died over PNG in WWII before I was born – Philip Alexander Dey

AND

My amazing, devoted mum Patricia and her Dey family’s service to the community through medical and nursing services including three brothers who served in WWII.

I also wish to acknowledge dad’s brothers Bob and Warren – Taree dentists.
Warren served as a dentist in Japan in WWII.
Bob also envisaged a sunburnt flag design…

Plus, dad’s father Jason (Jack) who was wounded at Pozieres in France on the Western Front in WWI.

In 2015 in the ANZAC Centenary Year my partner and I attended a memorial service for those who served for the 99th Anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, at a flaming WWI shell crater adjoining a dugout tunnel under a full moon behind the village of La Boisselle near Pozieres.
If one of Jack’s mates had not seen him open an eye, wounded in the mud… exclaiming – “Jack I’ll get you out”.
My dad, his brothers and our families would not exist…

The French ceremony commenced with a guitarist on the mount singing “One a Jolly Swagman” in French and English.
The Australian sacrifice was greater and bloodier here on the Western Front than Gallipoli – a year before.
Over a century has passed and Australian’s are still deeply honoured in this place.