Anzac Day Row

Balmain Rowing Club’s traditional morning row on Sat 25 April, including Jeremy Child’s pipe playing at Whitehorse Point as the boats rowed out and observed a minute’s silence, the laying of wreaths on the water of the Balmain rowers who served and did not return and the mock “Dardanelles Dash” between the 8s on the glassy bay to conclude our tribute on the water. Afterwards at the shed we read from the diaries of John Booth, whose forefathers purchased the original rowing club shed and who served at Gallipoli — it gave us a some sobering and enlightening snippets of the time. Lest we forget. Thanks to our resident archivist Beverley Malone who always makes it such a special event.