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Your guide to the 2025 Anzac Day Services in SA

By Bella McGreevy

Posted on April 25, 2025

Anzac Day is a time of reflection for both past and present soldiers. This is your guide to the public events and services happening across the state.

Image Credit: Walkerville RSL and RSL South Australia

Anzac Day is held annually on Friday, April 25, with services held in both metropolitan and rural areas across the state. It is a time of reflection and commemoration for past and present soldiers who selflessly honour and serve our country.

This is your guide to the public events and services happening.

To find out what’s on and open on Anzac Day, click here.

SERVICES

The Dawn Service is the largest ANZAC Day ritual nationwide. The main Dawn Service in SA will be held at the National War Memorial at 6am. The memorial is located on the corner of Kintore Avenue and North Terrace and is open to all members of the public.

There are also a host of local-community ANZAC services held across the state:

Adelaide, Anzac Eve Youth Virgil, South Australian National War Memorial, North Terrace, 24 April 6pm
Adelaide, South Australian National War Memorial, North Terrace, 6:00am
Adelaide, Light Horse Memorial, Cnr North & East Tces, 8:00am
Adelaide, Anzac Day Commemorative March, intersection of Gawler Place and North Terrace 9:30am
Adelaide, The Commemorative Service, Cross of Sacrifice, Pennington Gardens, 11:40am

Onkaparinga Council

Aldinga War Memorial, Port Road, 6:15am
Cherry Gardens Recreation Ground, Cherry Gardens Road
Clarendon Museum carpark, Grants Gully Road for the Last Post and reading of the Ode, 6am
Flagstaff Hill Memorial, Regano Road at 6:30am
Happy Valley’s Keane Memorial Gardens, Chandlers Hill Road
Kangarilla’s War Memorial at the Kangarilla Recreation Ground, Kangarilla Road
McLaren Flat’s Memorial Hall, Main Road
McLaren Vale Memorial Park, Valley View Drive, 5:45am
Morphett Vale’s Onkaparinga Memorial Gardens, corner of Flaxmill and Main South Roads, 6am followed by a free breakfast at the Morphett Vale RSL, Robertson Avenue
O’Halloran Hill’s Three Rifles Memorial, corner of Main South and Chandlers Hill Roads
Old Noarlunga’s Princess Diana Fountain Memorial, Market Square
Port Noarlunga Christies Beach RSL, Esplanade at Port Noarlunga, 5:30am
Willunga RSL, Main Road Willunga, 6:15am.
Clarendon War Memorial, Grants Gully Road, 10:30am followed by morning tea at the Clarendon Uniting Church
Coromandel Community Centre, Main Road, 9:00am.

Adelaide Hills Council

Upper Sturt, Upper Sturt Soldiers Memorial Hall, 173 Upper Sturt Road, 6:00pm
Lobethal, Cenotaph in front of Uniting Church, 22 Main Street, 6:00am
Stirling, Coventry Library Lawn, 63 Mount Barker Road, 6:00am
Mylor, Mylor War Memorial, 315 Strathalbyn Road, 6:00am
Houghton, Houghton Square, 2 Blackhill Road, 6:10am
Oakbank, Oakbank Soldiers Memorial Hall, 210 Onkaparinga Valley Road, 6:15am
Norton Summit, Norton Summit Memorial, 6:30am
Uraidla, The Uraidla District Soldiers Memorial Park, Swamp Road, 6:30am
Gumeracha, Gumeracha Oval, 47 Albert St, 6:30am
Forest Range / Lenswood, Central Recreation Reserve, Lobethal Road, 10:00am

Charles Sturt

St Clair, War Memorial Park, corner of Woodville Road and Glynis Nunn Drive, 24 April 5:30pm
West Croydon, West Croydon and Kilkenny RSL Club, 19 Rosetta Street, 6:15am
Henley Beach, Henley & Grange RSL Club, 6:30am
Seaton, Seaton Park RSL, 255 Tapleys Hill Road, 6:30am

Burnside/Campbelltown Council

Rose Park Memorial, Alexandra Avenue and Prescott Terrace Avenue of Honour, dawn
Kensington Gardens Reserve memorial, dawn
Tranmere, The Gums Reserve, Shakespeare Avenue 6:30am

City of Holdfast Bay/Marion

Brighton Beach, the Esplanade, 5:45am
Marion Returned Services League (RSL), 5:45am
Hallett Cove, Heron Way Reserve, 6:00am
Edwardstown, Edwardstown Soldiers’ Memorial Recreation Ground (Edwardstown Oval, 6:00am

City of Norwood, Payneham & St. Peters

Felixstow, Payneham RSL, The Cross of Sacrifice Memorial, Eastern side of OG Road, 6:00am
Norwood, Norwood RSL, Norwood Memorial, Osmond Tce, 6:00am

City of Port Adelaide, Enfield, Prospect & Walkerville

Enfield, Enfield RSL, 1 Fitzgerald Avenue, 5:45am
Kilburn, Kilburn RSL, 6:30am
Manningham – please search RSL for specific updates
Semaphore, Semaphore Angel War Memorial on the foreshore, 6:00am
Prospect, RSL sub-branch, Memorial Gardens, 1 Menzies Crescent, 5:45am for 6:00am start
Walkerville, Memorial Gardens, Church Terrace, 6:00am

Playford/Salisbury/Tea Tree Gully

Overnight Virgil: Smithfield, Cross of Remembrance Memorial, Smithfield Memorial Gardens Anderson Walk, 24 April 6:30pm
Smithfield, Cross of Remembrance Memorial, Smithfield Memorial Gardens Anderson Walk, 25 April 6:00am
Salisbury, RSL sub-branch, Salisbury Memorial Orange Avenue, 5:45am
Tea Tree Gully, Tea Tree Gully Memorial Garden, 1336 North East Road, 5:30am

City of Mitcham & Unley

Blackwood, Blackwood Soldiers Memorial Garden, Corner Main Road and Coromandel Parade, 6.30am
Youth Virgil: Blackwood Soldiers Memorial Garden, 24 and 25 April, 6:00pm to 6:00am
Colonel Light Gardens, Memorial Park, The Broadway, 6:00am
Hawthorn, Soldiers Memorial Garden, Mitcham Memorial Library, 154 Belair Road, 6:00am

City of West Torrens

Hilton, Hilton Memorial Gardens, City of West Torrens Memorial Gardens, from 5.30am
Lockleys, Mellor Park, 3 Myzantha St, from 5:30am
Glenelg North, Bill Shepherd Reserve, Wongala Ave, from 5:30am

Regional SA

Eyre Peninsula & West Coast

Port Lincoln, Eyre Park: 6:30am & 10:30am
Tumby Bay, Memorial Esplanade: 6:30am
Cummins, Garden of Remembrance: 6:30am
Cowell, Foreshore: 7:00am & Football Oval: 2:30pm
Streaky Bay, Jetty Platform: 6:45am & RSL: 11:00am

Riverland & Murraylands

Renmark, Cross of Sacrifice: 6:15am & 10:40am
Loxton, Cross of Sacrifice: 6:15am
Murray Bridge, Sturt Reserve: 5:45am
Milang, Memorial Gardens: 11:00am
Strathalbyn, Soldiers Garden: 6:00am

Limestone Coast

Mount Gambier, Vansittart Park: 6:00am & 10:15am
Boer War Memorial & Lake Cemetery: 9:00am
Penola, Soldiers Park: 7:30am
Port MacDonnell, Sea Parade: 6:15am
Millicent, Cross of Sacrifice: 6:00am & 11:00am

Yorke Peninsula & Mid North

Wallaroo, Town Hall: 7:00am
Port Vincent, War Memorial: 7:00am
Port Victoria, Main Street: 6:45am
Ardrossan, Clifftop Memorial: 6:30am
Kapunda, Cenotaph: 6:30am
Mintaro, Institute: 6:25am
Tarlee, War Memorial: 10:00am

Fleurieu Peninsula

Victor Harbor, Cross of Sacrifice: 5:45am
Goolwa, RSL: 6:00am
Port Elliot, The Strand: 6:00am
Tooperang, War Memorial Hall: 6:00am

Northern SA

Port Augusta, Gladstone Square: 6:30am & 11:00am
Peterborough, Rotunda: 6:00am
Morgan, RSL: 11:00am
Burra, Market Square: 6:30am

Anzac Eve Youth Virgils

Adelaide State National War Memorial 6:00pm 24/4 – 5.30am 25/4. Opening Ceremony from 7:25pm 24/4. Vince Scotland 0416 135 768, [email protected]
Regional and Metropolitan Vigils:
Gawler: Pioneer Park 6:30pm – 10:30pm 24/4. Colin Wardrop 0409505649; [email protected]
Blackwood Memorial Garden, cnr Main Rd & Coromandel Pde. 6:00pm 24/4 – 6:30am 25/4. 0457499015; [email protected]
Marion RSL, Norfolk Rd 5:00pm 24/4 – 5:30am 25/4. Ken Parnell 0406 380 819; [email protected]
Morphett Vale Memorial Gardens, cnr South and Flaxmill Roads 8:15pm 24/4 – 5:45am 25/4. [email protected]
Salisbury Memorial, Orange Ave. 6:30pm 24/4 – 5:30am 25/4

Find more information and updates on services on the RSL South Australia website here.

ANZAC DAY MARCH

The Anzac Day March will commence at 9:30am from the corner of North Terrace and Gawler Place. The march will make its way to to the final destination – 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.

CROSS OF SACRIFICE REMEMBRANCE SERVICE

After the Anzac Day March, The traditional Service of Remembrance is held at the Cross of Sacrifice in Pennington Gardens, North Adelaide, at 11:15am. The March represents the walk to the grave and the service at the Cross of Sacrifice represents the burial.

The Cross of Sacrifice Memorial is located in the gardens opposite St Peters Cathedral and salutes 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.