{"id":309,"date":"2014-08-05T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/2014\/08\/lest-we-forget-the-first-shot-ww1.html\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:51:07","slug":"lest-we-forget-the-first-shot-ww1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2014\/08\/05\/lest-we-forget-the-first-shot-ww1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest We Forget &#8211; The First Shot WW1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Did you know the first British Empire shot fired<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">in World War 1 came from Australia?<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Me neither&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wWjwgC6rSdE\/U-BlEWCWCRI\/AAAAAAAADwA\/hpdKZldCLv8\/s1600\/poppies.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wWjwgC6rSdE\/U-BlEWCWCRI\/AAAAAAAADwA\/hpdKZldCLv8\/s1600\/poppies.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lest we forget<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">As the world commemorates the 100th anniversary\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">since the start of World War 1<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">our Aussie news is full of world leaders across Britain and Europe<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">attending the various WW1 services.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Britons were urged to:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0&#8216;<i>Turn your lights out to remember the fallen&#8217;<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and our young royals have been in Belgium.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Jq7p06zQoQw\/U-CYS-kkQeI\/AAAAAAAADxM\/ulUzW4xN1ns\/s1600\/Port%2BNepean3.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Jq7p06zQoQw\/U-CYS-kkQeI\/AAAAAAAADxM\/ulUzW4xN1ns\/s1600\/Port%2BNepean3.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Wild seas have claimed many a life here at Point Nepean but the single shot changed the course of history&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I feel connected.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I remember our family members lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The Great War started after Germany invaded a small country called Belgium.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A country we know well, having lived there for many years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We have trudged around the Flanders fields,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">we walked with heavy hearts in what remain of the trenches<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and we&#8217;ve observed the last post at Ypes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-H7vzIlpPRQg\/U-CC20jdbwI\/AAAAAAAADww\/p8MGw4B8-P4\/s1600\/Port%2BNepean.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-H7vzIlpPRQg\/U-CC20jdbwI\/AAAAAAAADww\/p8MGw4B8-P4\/s1600\/Port%2BNepean.jpg?resize=640%2C390\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Point Nepean National Park<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Locally on the Mornington Peninsula,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">an hours drive out of Melbourne\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>&#8216;The First Shot&#8217;<\/i> commemoration was held today.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">On 5th August 1914<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">less than four hours after Britain declared war<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Australia fired the first shot.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It was fired from Fort Nepean towards the German Merchant vessel SS Pfalz.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">They tell us on the news today the shot landed so close\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">that water sprayed onto the decks\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and the Pfalz surrendered.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-cnan5QDfrn8\/U-B_JeXR54I\/AAAAAAAADwc\/OCRcEYZW5nM\/s1600\/Port%2BNapean.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-cnan5QDfrn8\/U-B_JeXR54I\/AAAAAAAADwc\/OCRcEYZW5nM\/s1600\/Port%2BNapean.jpg?resize=640%2C370\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking out over Port Phillip Bay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Visiting recently it looks an unlikely place to start a world war.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Point Nepean National Park is remote, rugged and beautiful.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Today at 12.45pm, exactly 100 years on<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the anniversary was marked by a Tiger Moth flyover\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and the firing of a artillery howitzer.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">How and why Australians became involved is interesting to me.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">One hundred years ago, Australia was a young nation;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">only fourteen years out from Federation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">With this one shot,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Australia took it&#8217;s place\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">on the world stage on August 5th 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-CgK6wlQqzY4\/U-CZhxZEwlI\/AAAAAAAADxY\/whRP987tr60\/s1600\/Port%2BNepean4.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-CgK6wlQqzY4\/U-CZhxZEwlI\/AAAAAAAADxY\/whRP987tr60\/s1600\/Port%2BNepean4.jpg?resize=640%2C358\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">A bleak posting&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Many of the colonialists of the day originated from the United Kingdom<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">which they continued to call &#8216;home&#8217; or the &#8216;Mother Country&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I can relate to this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It was only natural when the &#8216;call to arms&#8217; came\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">that Australian&#8217;s wouldn&#8217;t hesitate.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8216;If the old Country is at war, then so are we&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Today walking around the park\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">there is plenty of evidence to remind you<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">of the past history&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-NmR_dj6o2bg\/U-B9pwBx6gI\/AAAAAAAADwQ\/YFWt0QKPQl0\/s1600\/Portsea.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-NmR_dj6o2bg\/U-B9pwBx6gI\/AAAAAAAADwQ\/YFWt0QKPQl0\/s1600\/Portsea.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>That one shot started World War One for the world.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><b><i>&#8216;<span style=\"background-color: white;\">They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><b><i><span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: center;\">Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; text-align: center;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: center;\">At the going down of the sun and in the morning<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; text-align: center;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: center;\">We will remember them.&#8217;<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;\"><b><i><span style=\"background-color: white; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">For the Fallen, a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pPEPytpdmoU\/U-B_85j26fI\/AAAAAAAADwk\/Lg5HFDnWJZw\/s1600\/Port%2BNapean1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-pPEPytpdmoU\/U-B_85j26fI\/AAAAAAAADwk\/Lg5HFDnWJZw\/s1600\/Port%2BNapean1.jpg?resize=640%2C406\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>At the going down of the sun at Port Nepean, we will remember them..<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Tonight is a night to remember the darkness of war<br \/>\nThe Great War left 17 million soldiers and civilians dead<br \/>\nThe terrible loss of a generation.<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-90Dmm-Nm9hI\/UnmwkISKsSI\/AAAAAAAABDQ\/Uq3L5MyIT18\/s1600\/lww.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-90Dmm-Nm9hI\/UnmwkISKsSI\/AAAAAAAABDQ\/Uq3L5MyIT18\/s1600\/lww.png?resize=400%2C266\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/08\/our-world-tuesday-kicking-off-august.html\">Our World Tuesday<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Thanks to all the hosts<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-OM5zaIlZ118\/Url26PxI0vI\/AAAAAAAABXw\/nSitnaW-oF8\/s1600\/Our%2BWorld.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-OM5zaIlZ118\/Url26PxI0vI\/AAAAAAAABXw\/nSitnaW-oF8\/s1600\/Our%2BWorld.jpg?w=1170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Thanks to Jenny Matlock at <a href=\"http:\/\/jennymatlock.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/08\/alphabe-thursday-letter-l.html\">Alphabe Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; 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