Anglo-Boer War Study Group Meeting
Box Hill RSL 26-28 Nelson Rd, Box Hill, AustraliaMeeting at¬†Box Hill RSL at 2 pm on Sunday 2 September Convenor: Robyn Droogleever, Anglo-Boer war historian and author of several books on the conflict, including most recently¬†That Ragged Mob: The service history of the 3rd¬†and 4th¬†Victorian Bushmen‚Äôs contingents. The Anglo-Boer War Study Group meets to discuss the campaigns, medals, and the men and women […]
Anglo-Boer War Study Group Meeting
Box Hill RSL 26-28 Nelson Rd, Box Hill, AustraliaMeeting at¬†Box Hill RSL at 2 pm on Sunday 2 December Convenor: Robyn Droogleever, Anglo-Boer war historian and author of several books on the conflict, including most recently¬†That Ragged Mob: The service history of the 3rd¬†and 4th¬†Victorian Bushmen‚Äôs contingents. The Anglo-Boer War Study Group meets to discuss the campaigns, medals, and the men and women […]
Life on the battlefields… more than 90 years on
Oakleigh Bowling Club corner of Drummond and Logie Streets, Oakleigh, AustraliaInternational speaker Charlotte Descamps will present a talk dealing with the ‚Äúsilent witnesses‚Äù to the Great War at Varlet Farm, Poelkapelle, Belgium. The Farm is situated in what was the centre of the battlefields of Third Ypres. Where: Oakleigh Bowling Club, corner of Drummond and Logie Streets, Oakleigh. When: Sunday 3 June, 2012 at 2pm. […]
The mothers who mourned during the First World War
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaProfessor Joy Damousi presents this lecture. A group who are often forgotten in our commemorations of war, mothers gave their sons in large numbers during the Great War. A group who are often forgotten in our commemorations of war,¬†mothers gave their sons in large numbers during the Great War. The ways in which mothers mourned, […]
Victorian Collections Training Workshop – Echuca Neighbourhood House
Echuca Neighbourhood House 261 High St, Echuca, AustraliaVictorian Collections is a new free, easy to use, online cataloguing system that is available to collecting organisations throughout Victoria, including RSLs and military heritage groups. Over the coming months workshops for volunteers to learn this cataloguing system will be held across Victoria - in Melbourne, Sale, Bright, Port Fairy, Warrnambool, St Arnaud and Mt […]
An Australian foreign policy? Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19
The question of whether an Australian foreign policy existed during the First World War arises because there was no Department of Foreign Affairs at that time. Through ‚ÄòAustralia in War and Peace, 1914-19‚Äô, a major collaborative research project between the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies (MCAS) at King‚Äôs College London and the Department of Foreign […]
“Welcome Luncheon” for the port visit of HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Warramunga .
Mercure Melbourne Treasury Gardens Hotel 13 Spring Street, Melbourne, AustraliaThe Victoria Division Navy League of Australia is to hold a ‚ÄúWelcome Luncheon‚Äù on Monday 5th November for the port visit of HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Warramunga . Time:¬† 12 for 1230 Venue: ¬†Mercure Melbourne Treasury Gardens Hotel ‚Äì Apple room overlooking the Treasury Gardens.¬† ¬†¬†Seating up to 30.¬† President NLA Victoria Division - LCDR […]
The Other ANZACS
By the end of The Great War, forty five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. Peter Rees […]
Melbourne Arms & Military Fair
Melbourne Showgrounds Epsom Road, Ascot Vale, AustraliaDate: 7 & 8 JulyVenue: Expo Hall - Building 03 Opening Times: Sat 9:00am - 5:00pm Sun, 9:00am - 3:00pm Tickets: Adults $12, Seniors $10. Available at the door ATM Availability: Limited ATM facilites will be available. We recommend you visit an ATM prior to your arrival on site. Parking Facilities: Onsite parking $5.00 Entry […]
Kokoda, Milne Bay, Beachheads: Australians in Papua, July 1942 – January 1943
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaBetween July 1942 and January 1943, Australia fought three costly campaigns against Japanese forces in Papua, New Guinea: at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. The Kokoda Track, winding through the Owen Stanley mountain range was the setting for the most famous of these, a campaign which many believe to be Australia‚Äôs defining episode of […]
Red Zone Baghdad: My War in Iraq
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaColonel Marcus Fielding will provide a unique and fascinating insight into the significant contribution by the Australian soldiers embedded in various Coalition headquarters. In telling his own story, Fielding provides interesting and fresh perspectives on Australia’s involvement. Click here for more information.
Australia’s Gifted Lost Generation of World War I
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, AustraliaPresented by Dr Ross McMullin Ross McMullin‚Äôs latest book, Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia‚Äôs Lost Generation, contains extended biographies of ten extraordinary but long forgotten men whose loss was devastating to the nation as well as to their families. Dr McMullin‚Äôs illustrated presentation will examine the remarkable stories he has retrieved. Cost: Members Free […]