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Your guide to the 2024 Anzac Day Services in SA

By Glam Adelaide

Posted on April 1, 2024

Here is your 2024 guide to Adelaide’s Anzac Day services, find the event closest and suited to you.

Image Credit: Walkerville RSL and RSL South Australia

Anzac Day is held annually on April 25, with services held in both metropolitan and rural areas. Remember to take some time out to remember our fallen soldiers and say thank you to our current soldiers who continue to fight for, and protect the beautiful country that we call Australia.

From dawn services, the march, and remembrance services on the day. This is your 2024 guide on what is happening near you and to help you fit the day into your busy schedule.

Also, your guide to what’s on and open here.

DAWN SERVICES

The dawn service is the biggest tradition in Australia when it comes to Anzac Day, and per tradition, the main Dawn Service will be held at the SA National War Memorial at 6:00 am. This is located on the corner of Kintore Avenue and North Terrace and is open to the public. There is also a whole host of other services around South Australia.

But there are heaps more happening around SA:

Adelaide, South Australian National War Memorial, North Terrace, 6:00am
Adelaide, Light Horse Memorial, Cnr North & East Tces, 8:00am
Adelaide, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander War Memorial, Torrens Parade Ground, 8:00am
Adelaide, Cross of Sacrifice, after the ANZAC March concludes
Aldinga, War Memorial, 6:30am
Alice Springs, Anzac Memorial, Garden Cemetery, Norris Bell Ave, 6:00am
Alice Springs, Anzac Hill, 10:30am
Blanchetown, RSL Hall, cnr Edgerton and Merivale Streets, 6:00am
Brighton, Arch of Remembrance, Brighton Jetty, 6:00am
Cowell, Cenotaph, Foreshore, 7:00am
Cradock, Memorial, RM Williams Way, 6:30am
Crystal Brook, Adelaide Square, 6:15am
Cummins, Garden of Remembrance, Tumby Bay Rd, 6:30am
Darwin, Cenotaph, 6:00am
Echunga, Remembrance Gardens, 6:30am
Edwardstown, Memorial Garden, Raglan Ave, 6:00am
Forest Range, WW1 Memorial, 1430 Lobethal Road, 10:00am
Gawler, Pioneer Park, 6:00am
Glenelg, Memorial, Moseley Square, 6:00am
Goolwa, RSL, Cutting Rd, 5:45am
Gumeracha, Oval, Albert St, 6:30am
Gumeracha, Memorial Arch, Shannon St, 10:45am
Hallett Cove, Memorial, Herron Way Reserve, 6:00am
Hawthorn, Soldiers’ Memorial Gardens, 154 Belair Rd, 6:00am
Henley Beach, Soldiers Memorial, 378 Seaview Road, 6:30am
Hilton, Memorial Gardens, Brooker Terrace, 6:00am
Houghton, Village Square, 6:00am
Jamestown, Memorial Park, Irvine St, 6:15am
Kangarilla, War Memorial, Kangarilla Recreation Ground, 6:30am
Kapunda, Cenotaph, 6:30am
Katherine, Cnr Victoria Highway & Railway Terrace, 6:00am
Kensington Park, RSL, 346 The Parade, 6:30am
Kilburn, RSL, 2 Way St, 6:30am
Largs North, RSL, Carnarvon Terrace, 6:45am
Linden Park, RAR Association, 13 Beatty Street, 6:20am
Lobethal, Cenotaph, 6:00am
Marion, RSL, Norfolk Road, 6:15am
McLaren Vale, Memorial Park, Valley View Drive, 5:45am
Meadows, Memorial Gardens, Mawson Road, 6:30am
Millicent, Cross of Sacrifice, 6:00am
Morphett Vale, Memorial Gardens, Cnr Main South & Flaxmill Roads, 5:45am
Mount Barker, Memorial, Mann Street, 6:00am
Mount Compass, War Memorial Community Centre, Peters Tce, 6:00am
Mount Gambier, Vansittart Park War Memorial, 6:10am, 9:00am, and 10:30am
Murray Bridge, Sturt Reserve, 5:45am
Mylor, War Memorial, Strathalbyn Road, 6:30am
Nairne, Cenotaph, Main St, 6:15am
Northfield, RSL, Peter Brown Dr, 6:00am
Norton Summit, War Memorial, 6:30am
Norwood, War Memorial, cnr Osmond Tce and The Parade, 6:20am
Nuriootpa, RSL, Memorial Ave, following the 6am march
Oakbank, Soldiers’ Memorial Hall, 210 Onkaparinga Valley Rd, 6:15am
Penola, Soldiers Memorial Park, 7:30am
Plympton Park, RSL, 464 Marion Road, 6:00am
Port Adelaide, Naval Association Clubrooms, Quebec Street, 6:00am
Port Elliot, Memorial Gardens, The Strand, 6:00am
Port Pirie, WW1 Memorial Gates, Gertrude St & Memorial Dr, 6:00am and 11:00am
Port Victoria, Median strip, Main Road, 6:00am
Prospect, Memorial, Menzies Cres, 6:00am
Richmond, TPI House, 171 Richmond Road, 6:30am
Robe, War Memorial, 6:30am
Robertstown, 9 Commercial St, 9:00am
Rose Park, Memorial, cnr Prescott Tce & Alexander Ave, 6:15am
Rudall, Football Oval, 2:00pm
Salisbury, Memorial, Orange Avenue, 6:00am
Seaton, RSL, 257 Tapleys Hill Road, 6:30am
Second Valley, War Memorial, Finniss Vale Dr, 6:15am
Semaphore, Memorial, Foreshore, 6:00am
Stirling, Library Lawn, Mt Barker Rd, 6:00am
Streaky Bay, Jetty Platform, 6:45am and RSL, Montgomerie Tce, 10:45am
Tanunda, Garden of Remembrance, Murray Street, 6:15am and Soldiers Memorial Hall, 11:00am
Tea Tree Gully, Memorial Gardens, North East Road, 6:10am
Tooperang, War Memorial Hall, 6:00am
Tranmere, The Gums, Shakespeare Avenue, 6:30am
Two Wells, War Memorial, Old Port Wakefield Rd, 6:15am
Unley, Memorial Gardens, 5:45am
Victor Harbor, Cross of Sacrifice, Flinders Parade, 5:45am
Waikerie, Memorial Gardens, Lawrie Terrace, 8:00am
Walkerville, Memorial Gardens, Church Tce, 6:15am
Wasleys, Institute, 9:00am
West Croydon, RSL, Rosetta St, 6:15am
Whyalla, Memorial Gates, Bradford St, 6:45am and 10:45am
Willunga, Recreation Park, Main Road, behind RSL, 6:15am
Yorketown, Melville War Memorial, Stansbury Road, 6:30am

ANZAC DAY MARCH

The Anzac Day March will commence at 9:30 am from the corner of North Terrace and Gawler Place. The march will then make its way to its destination at the Cross of Sacrifice in Pennington Gardens, North Adelaide. Spectators are invited to line both North Terrace and King William Street to watch those participating in the march.

CROSS OF SACRIFICE REMEMBRANCE SERVICE

Immediately after the Anzac Day March, there will be a service in Pennington Gardens, North Adelaide. This part of the day’s commemorations is the significant finale, the March represents the walk to the grave and the service at the Cross of Sacrifice represents the burial.

The Cross of Sacrifice Memorial stands in gardens opposite St Peters Cathedral and commemorates the men and women who died during the Great War 1914 – 1919. An Ataturk Tribute and Eternal Flame also feature in the garden.

The general public is welcome to attend this service.