Calendar of Events

Bayonets.This is Major Noel Hall Award night. PLEASE CONTACT THE GUILD FOR THE START TIME. The Guild holds monthly meetings on the last Monday of the month at Eley Park Community Centre, 87 Eley Road, Blackburn South, Melbourne (Melways ref: 61-H5). We warmly welcome, and encourage, all prospective members to come along to one of […]

Part one of 'Episodes of the Royal Navy, Battleships at War 1941/42.' This is part of a series of eleven DVD presentations featuring archival film from the Imperial War Museum, London. The Complete set has been presented to the Victoria Chapter of the NHS by Captain David Mc Fall FCII MN of the Maritime Model […]

MilitariaThis is Major Noel Hall Award night. PLEASE CONTACT THE GUILD FOR THE START TIME. The Guild holds monthly meetings on the last Monday of the month at Eley Park Community Centre, 87 Eley Road, Blackburn South, Melbourne (Melways ref: 61-H5). We warmly welcome, and encourage, all prospective members to come along to one of […]

From Naval Video Time Capsules, Episodes of the Royal Navy, we view Part 2 'Britannia Goes to War'. Produced from rare archival film from the Imperial War Museum London, this one hour video profiles almost all the types of warships of WW2. From Spithead reviews to the Home and Mediterranean fleets exercising off Gibraltar. From […]

Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort. Fort Queenscliff is one of Victoria's most important heritage sites and one of the largest and best preserved forts in the country. Enjoy the rare opportunity to tour a 19th Century Coastal Artillery Fort (operating as an Australian Army Base) with over 150 […]

An international conference hosted by the Australian War Memorial and the Australian National University Llewellyn Hall, Australian National University, Canberra. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915 was one of the most controversial campaigns of the First World War. The major allied powers aimed at shortening the war by eliminating Turkey, but the campaign ended in complete […]

In 1915, Albert Borella journeyed through 1,000 kilometres of Northern Territory‚Äôs outback from Tennant Creek to Darwin to enlist in World War I. He fought at Gallipoli and the Western Front; was wounded, commissioned on the battlefield, and awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest honour for valour in combat. From 20 February to 3 March […]

Thw Memorial Service and Luncheon presented by 58/32 Infantry Battalion Association Inc. You are cordially invited to attend The Major-General Pompey Elliott 2015 Annual Reunion To be held on Friday 20th March 2015 Memorial Service 11.30a¬∑m to 12.30pm Pre -luncheon drinks 12.30pm to I.OOpm "The Brass Tavern" 144 Pascoe Vale Rd, Moonee Ponds Ladies most […]

Australian soldiers praised stretcher-bearers on every battlefield of both world wars. From the landing at Gallipoli to the last campaigns of 1945, in desert, jungle, mountains and mud, Australian stretcher-bearers routinely risked their lives to save others. To win that praise, all bearers paid a high price. Their job was intensely dangerous and no category […]

By Tom Wright Originally produced by Queensland Theatre Company and Sydney Festival The untold story of our Indigenous ANZACS. One hundred years ago, in 1914, a bullet from an assassin‚Äôs gun in Sarajevo sparked a war that ignited the globe. Patriotic young men all over the world lined up to join the fight ‚Äì including […]

Susanna de Vries will tell of eight heroic army nurses, five from Melbourne. Sister Samsung‚Äôs story is only one of eight enthralling narratives which Suzanna de Vries will present. Sister Hilda Samsing witnessed the bungled evacuation of wounded Anzacs, many of whom were left lying on the beach at Anzac Cove for days in burning […]

Through historical photographs and personal stories, this exhibition presents the chronology of the First World War (1914-19) and provides the opportunity to discover the fascinating stories with particular reference to the contribution of Victorians. Find out about the hardships that our men endured and the battles that they fought alongside Allied nations ‚Äì from the […]