PEACE from the Palace of Versailles to Dean Street was the focus as an Albury-raised naval captain addressed his former hometown's Anzac Day service.
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Charles Huxtable reflected that this year marked a century since the signing of the World War I peace treaty at the grand French chateau near Paris.
"Australia was represented by Prime Minister Billy Hughes who, when asked what right he had to speak, replied 'the right of 60,000 war dead'," Captain Huxtable said. "Alas in attempting to meet all needs the treaty satisfied few, leading to the supreme allied commander Marshal Foch to say 'this is not peace, this is an armistice for 20 years'.
"He was right, war broke out again in 1939."
Pictures: JAMES WILTSHIRE
