Calendar of Events

Join us for this compelling lecture recounting the lives of eight remarkable nurses whose resilience, courage and skill took them from Australia to Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front. These women, represented in Susanna de Vries‚Äô latest publication, Australian Heroines of World War One, had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renowned […]

Fort Queenscliff Museum Friends of the Fort Annual Black Tie Dinner The Fort Queenscliff Museum Annual Black Tie Dinner is to be held at the Queenscliff & Point Lonsdale RSL, Saturday 12th October 2013 at 6.30pm for 7pm. A short meeting regarding the revised constitution will be held at 6.45pm If you would like further […]

The Centenary of Military Aviation 2014 Air Show is proudly presented by the Royal Australian Air Force at RAAF Williams, Point Cook, Victoria over the weekend of 1st and 2nd March 2014. Point Cook is the birthplace of military aviation in Australia and the oldest continually operating military airfield in the world. Encompassing a spectacular […]

The National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association Australia Monthly meetings are held at the Batman Hotel in Spencer Street the first Tuesday of the month (except in December) followed by Lunch. We encourage any Veteran of Malaya, Malaysia to come along and join us for lunch and hopefully then join the Association.

The General Sir john Monash Commemorative Service: Friday 1 August 2014, at Parliament House, Victoria, at 10.30 for an 11.00am Service, concluding at 12.15pm. Followed by The Spirit of Australia Foundation Luncheon at The Windsor Hotel, Spring Street, at 12.30 for 1.00pm. For information and registration go to website: spiritofaustralia.org.au

Powerful photographic images of the Vietnam conflict by Gunner Paul Haw, a Vietnam veteran of 1968-69

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings on 6 June 1944, Dr Mark Johnston discusses the largest seaborne invasion in history. Involving more than 150,000 Allied troops, including 3,000 Australians, the invasion of Normandy began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe and contributed significantly to Allied victory in the Second World War. General […]

2014 will mark the centenary of the capture of the German wireless station at Bita Paka in Rabaul on 11 September 1914 by the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF), commanded by Colonel William Holmes DSO. War between Britain and Germany was declared on 4 August and a few days later a telegram was […]

Shortly after midday the gunners at Fort Nepean lined up the German merchant steamer ‚Äì the SS Pfalz - as it bolted towards the heads and fired the first shot in a terrible war that would last four long years and scar the world. How was Australia placed at this moment in history? What were […]

The Fort Queenscliff Museum Annual Black Tie Dinner is to be held at the Queenscliff & Point Lonsdale R.S.L on Saturday 2nd August 2014 at 6.30pm for 7pm. This annual fundraising dinner includes a three course meal and special guest speaker. This night is open to everyone. Come along with your friends and learn about […]

The National Malaya & Borneo Veterans Association Australia Monthly meetings are held at the Batman Hotel in Spencer Street the first Tuesday of the month (except in December) followed by Lunch. We encourage any Veteran of Malaya, Malaysia to come along and join us for lunch and hopefully then join the Association.

The Friends of the Black Powder Mill will explain the milling process, and the work that was carried out on the former Albion Explosives Factory site. This site was important in defence manufacturing during and after World War II. It‚Äôs a reminder of the thousands of men and women who worked in the munitions industry […]