Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial Commemorative Service – Lemnos Square

Annual Commemorative Event at Lemnos Square.

We have had many services over the years since the official unveiling in 2015. Many dignitaries from here and abroad have visited our Memorial and paid their respects, including the former Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, General Konstantinos Floros. He was present when then Councillor Bernadene Voss, as the Mayor of the City of Port Phillip, announced the formal naming of the Reserve on which our Memorial is located, “Lemnos Square”.

This bronze Memorial, of a nurse protecting a weary soldier, was sculpted by renowned artist Peter Corlett OAM. It recognizes the important role of the Greek island of Lemnos in Australia’s ANZAC story and is dedicated to the Australian nurses and soldiers who served there during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915; to the 148 Australian soldiers who remain buried there; and to the local community who supported them.

Our 2024 Commemorative Service at Lemnos Square will include an address, a wreath-laying ceremony, the national anthems of Greece and Australia and the reciting of the Ode.

This year’s address will delivered by Captain Ryan Curtis, a descendent of Warrant Officer Archibald Monk of the 3rd Australian General Hospital who served on Lemnos during the Gallipoli campaign.

You can also purchase a copy of ‘Lemnos Gallipoli Revealed’ or ‘Grecian Adventure’ – both authored by Jim Claven – which you will be able to collect at the conclusion of the commemorative service and then gift to a school or organisation to continue educating the wider community about the Hellenic connection to the Anzac story.

Please email me at lee.tarlamis@hotmail.com to advise of your attendance by Monday 5 August 2024

Yours sincerely

Lee Tarlamis OAM MP
President

Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee