Calendar of Events

Mud and Blood, Meg McNena's compelling 80-minute, six-actor play, is about distinguished Australian general, Harold 'Pompey' Elliott, who led the Essendon Rifles and took most of them to WWI. The tenacity of Australian men and women is shown in battle and at home. Timing in 2018 with Anzac and Armistice centenaries adds impact. Set 1914-1921, […]

Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War will be released at Fort Queenscliff on Thursday, 2 August at 4 pm. Colonel Geoffrey Skardon (Retd) will speak. All members of MHHV are invited, however, would those coming along please notify me so that we can cater and also advise the front gate for entry. My […]

Meeting 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 […]

Meeting 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 […]

International 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. […]

Professor 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 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 […]

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 […]

The 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 […]

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 […]

Date: 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 […]

Between 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 […]