David George's memories of his father Robert were as strong and emotional as ever, as he listened to John Jansen playing the bugle at Hume Retirement village.
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"Usually I get up and go to the dawn service at Monument, and for years I'd pick Dad up - he was in the Albury march until he was 97 and couldn't march anymore," he said.
"He was in the latter stages of the (Second World) War in New Guinea.
"He got shrapnel in the leg and couldn't walk, and they rescued him and brought him back to Darwin."
Robert George, who was a barber in Kerang for 47 years and used to cut Prime Minister John Gorton's hair, lived to 100.
"There's a lot of memories," Mr George said.
"It's funny, he'd never really talked about the war until he was in the Mercy Hospital and it was all brought back to him by seeing Filipino nurses.
"He thought he was in the army hospital again, and started talking about what happened, it was incredible."
Mr George, who has lived in the Glenroy village for 10 years, was among 60 residents who gathered - while observing social distancing - to hear Mr Jansen play The Last Post.
Homemade Anzac biscuits were handed out, and a wreath tied to a post not only remembered those who have served in wars, but the four Victoria Police officers who were killed on Wednesday.
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