Britannia Goes to War.
Melbourne Naval Centre (ESU Building) 146W Toorak Road, South Yarra, AustraliaFrom 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 […]
Fort Queenscliff Museum School Holiday Tours – Last days
Fort Queenscliff Museum King Street, Queenscliff, AustraliaEnjoy 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 […]
Gallipoli 1915: a century on
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 […]
The Borella Ride
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 […]
The Major-General Pompey Elliott 2015 Annual Reunion
"The Brass Tavern" 144 Pascoe Vale Rd, Moonee Ponds, Vic, AustraliaThw 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 […]
Stretcher-Bearers: Saving Australians From Gallipoli To Kokoda
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaAustralian 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 […]
Black Diggers
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 […]
Melbourne Heroines of World War One
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 […]
Australia will be there: Victorians in the First World War (1914-19)
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum , AustraliaThrough 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 […]
Australia will be there: Victorians in the First World War (1914-19) – Last days
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum , AustraliaThrough 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 […]
Lest We Forget! – researching your WW1 family military history
Parkdale Library 96 Parkers Road, Parkdale, AustraliaJoin military historian Lieutenant Colonel Neil C Smith, AM, Retd, of Mostly Unsung, for an insight into researching military history. Neil will focus particularly on the Anzac Landings in 1915, providing an overview of WW1 and military research techniques within this context. He will include, as examples, research on some local Kingston residents. Book by […]
Victorian Collections Training Workshop – Upper Yarra Community House
Upper Yarra Community House 2463 Warburton Highway, Yarra Junction, 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 […]