Calendar of Events

The enduring fascination with Gallipoli is explored in this exclusive exhibition which presents some 100 items recovered from the Joint Historical and Archaeological Survey of the Gallipoli battlefield (2010 ‚Äì 14) supported by the Australian, New Zealand and Turkish governments. Historical and geographical context is provided by maps and engravings on loan from the University […]

Australian Police Arms and Accoutrements - Colonial to Present.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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]