This year's service had well known poet Rupert McCall resite his A Fire Fighter's Dream poem - to remember the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. Rupert delivered this same poem at Battery Park, adjacent to Ground Zero, with a team of Australian and US Firefighters that had arrived on the 9th Anniversary after having completed the TOUR OF DUTY - a 30 day run from Los Angeles to New York.
http://www.afirefightersdream.com/
The bell used in this service is the same bell that was used in the bell tower of the Ithaca Fire Station.
The bell was used to summon firefighters to the station to respond to fires in this area.
Today the bell is used to summon the spirit and memory of fallen firefighters, their families, their friends and workmates to pay respects to their revered brothers.
Queensland Fire & Rescue Service Honour Roll - 2011
25/03/1877 Brisbane City Volunteer Firefighter James Thomas MOONEY
25/12/1934 Toowoomba Fire Brigade Deputy Superintendent Joseph THOMSON
18/6/1941 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Stewart ANGUS
13/01/1942 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade 3rd Officer Alfred LAMBERT
13/01/1942 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Henry SCHIRMER
13/01/1942 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter George UREN
06/03/1943 Gympie Fire Brigade Firefighter Kevin BENNETTS
06/01/1944 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Leonard ANGUS
13/05/1950 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Kenneth TOWERTON
1951 Bimerah Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Norman CLARK
1953 Dixalea Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter TJ McINTYRE
14/11/1954 Sesbania Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Hugh RL HALLORAN
14/11/1954 Sesbania Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Reginald JR HOLLORAN
14/11/1954 Sesbania Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Robert BATTELEY
01/12/1955 East Darr Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter J McMILLAN
26/11/1958 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station Officer Stan STEEL
17/05/1959 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Sub Station Officer Herbert LEES
17/05/1959 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station Officer Sidney Willian BROWN
02/11/1960 Childers Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter DC (Mick) CALDER
29/10/1961 Gayndah Fire Brigade Chief Officer Bernie NEBE
03/09/1963 Ipswich Fire Brigade Firefighter Robert HUNTER
31/12/1964 Townsville Fire Brigade Sub Station Officer John SHIMMIN
25/06/1969 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Gordon RIDGEWAY
11/10/1969 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade 1st Officer Alwyn HOWIE
05/03/1971 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Alan EMERSON
10/11/1971 Ipswich Fire Brigade Firefighter John Patrick MAGUIRE
05/08/1972 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station Officer Ron RAMSEY
23/06/1973 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Harvey HARRIS
16/04/1976 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Sub Station Officer Angus McLEOD
05/10/1978 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter George HAMMOND
27/07/1981 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Nat RIDGEWAY
01/09/1982 Walkerston Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Joe BRANDT
07/07/1985 Clifton Rural Fire Brigade District Officer Bill HANES
09/08/1987 Farleigh Rural Fire Brigade Fire Warden Ronald DEGUARA
17/09/1989 Brisbane Metropolitan Fire Brigade Firefighter Christopher WARBURTON
28/08/1990 Minerva Rural Fire Brigade Fire Warden Colden AS WILLIS
10/09/1991 Palmwoods Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Kenneth WRIGLEY
02/08/1992 Heronvale Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Vaughan BAXTER
11/02/1994 Southport South East Region Sub Station Officer Herbert FENNELL
11/02/1994 Southport South East Region Firefighter Noel Douglas WATSON
19/11/1997 Mt Morgan Central Region Temporary Firefighter Lyle CURTIS
15/05/1998 Gladstone Central Region Firefighter Darryl HARRIS
24/08/2001 Brisbane South Region Firefighter Jeffrey PENFOLD
25/08/2001 Pineland Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Garnet SMOOTHY
29/09/2004 Black River Rural Fire Brigade Firefighter Miles FARROW
30/10/2004 Bundaberg Central Region Station Officer Paul John AUSTIN
06/06/2007 Roma Street Brisbane Region Station Officer Michael GUNDRY
05/09/2010 Taromeo Rural Fire Brigade Officer Kortney Vern WATTS
MAY THEY REST IN ETERNAL PEACE
FIREFIGHTERS PRAYER
When I am called to duty, God
Where ever flames may rage,
Give me strength to save some life
Whatever be its age.
Help me embrace a little child;
before it is too late
or save an older person from
the horror of that fate.
Enable me to be alert
and hear the weakest shout,
and quickly and efficiently
to put the fire out.
I want to fill my calling and
to give the best in me,
to guard my every neighbour
and protect his property.
And if according to my fate
I am to lose my life
Please bless with your protecting hand
My children and my wife.
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