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‘Lest we forget’: Army veterans on Remembrance Day
MUSN Jacob Legaspi, bugler for Australian Army Band Sydney, plays ‘The Last Post’ as poppies are projected onto the Sydney Opera House sails during a Remembrance Day 2025 Dawn Service at Campbells Cove, in Sydney, Tuesday, November 11, 2025. Credit: AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi
Thousands of people across Australia gathered to share a minute's silence at Remembrance Day services across the country on Tuesday, 11 November 2025. SBS Nepali spoke with veterans about the significance of this day and how younger generations reflect on it. Currently a defence analyst in private practice, Ranjit Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana, who has been living in Adelaide since 1978, shared his insights. Rana, who joined the Australian military as a Private on October 10, 1980, said he was affiliated with the 16th Air Defence Regiment Workshop based in South Australia. Similarly, Sydney-based former Gurkha soldier Shyam Bahadur Gurung, who came to Australia in 1989, also shared his thoughts. Gurung said he served in the British Army for about 15 years. The corporal also recalled serving in the Brunei conflict during the 1960s and living in Hong Kong and England before eventually settling in Australia. In the same context, Heupati Gurung, president of the Tamu Society Sydney, who has been taking part in similar commemoration programs, reflected on history and remembered the contributions of his ancestors.
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