Greater Springfield’s Anzac Day Dawn Service

Located in Greater Springfield’s Robelle Domain, the service features a modern cenotaph memorial to the Australian Defence Force. Every year Greater Springfielders rise early together to show their respects to those who served and have passed.

Greater Springfield’s Anzac Day Service at Orion Springfield has grown every year. What initially started at the USQ Springfield Campus with only a few hundred people has grown alongside the growing Springfield population. Now with the installation of the dedicated Light Tower Memorial in Robelle Domain Parklands, Springfield Central, Greater Springfield’s Annual Anzac Day Service now attracts crowds of over 500 people each year.

Greater Springfield’s Anzac Day Dawn Service takes place at 5:30am at the Springfield Central War Memorial in the Robelle Domain Parklands, Springfield Central.

Greater Springfield & Orion Springfield Anzac Day Trading Hours

Many of the local businesses around Orion Springfield turn out to pay their respects and with the close proximity to local Australian Defence Force bases, Greater Springfield hosts many defence families. Many Springfield businesses will be offering special deals and raising funds for both the upkeep of the Memorial Light Tower and to support Greater Springfield’s defence families.

The Orion Hotel will be providing a special Anzac Day Breakfast from 6am, available with a gold coin donation, and will be open standard hours until midnight.

The Orion Shopping Centre will see most retailers closed with some restaurants open.

Event Cinemas Orion will be open with session times from 1:30pm onwards.

The History of Anzac Day in Greater Springfield

Australia’s newest and most modern cenotaph lit up the dawn sky for the first time on Anzac Day, April 25^th, 2016. Thousands of Greater Springfielders and South-East Queenslanders assembled to pay respect to the nation’s fallen.

Located in the popular Robelle Domain, the gathering point was established as a community project headed by the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce who decided that the time was right for the state’s fastest emerging city to have its own Anzac monument.

Greater Springfield’s Anzac Day Dawn Service 2017

Greater Springfield’s 2017 Anzac Day dawn service saw more than 5000 Greater Springfielders gathered for the emerging city’s second dawn service under the magnificent light tower and cenotaph in the centre of Orion’s Robelle Domain, Springfield Central.

A recorded message from local long-time resident Colonel Michael Batiste in Afghanistan was beamed across the crowd, followed by a poem from his daughter Zoe who also attended the Anzac Day dawn service.

Many local businesses showed their support on the day, winding down their trading hours on Anzac Day to instead bring their services to the community. Lotus Café in Parkside Springfield Central offered free coffee to service personnel, while a gun-fire breakfast was offered at Orion Hotel.  Journey’s Kitchen and Bar and Two Butchers raffled a meat tray with proceeds going towards upkeep of the local memorial.