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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Memorial in tribute to James Drummond Burns
Lilydale War Memorial Main St, Lilydale, AustraliaA lilydale soldier and author of the famous First World War poem – “The bugles of England” To be unveiled by Dr Mark Johnston, Head of History – Scotch College
Spirit of the Past Exhibition
Recognising the service and sacrifice of men and women from the Wimmera District of Victoria. Some of the features of the Exhibition will be local men who served on Gallipoli, the ANZAC Cyclist Battalion, The Australian Flying Corps,The Gallipoli Submarine the AE2, The Light Horse and the Western Front. During the Exhibition there will be […]
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 […]
A History of the Royal Australian Navy, Volume 1
Melbourne Naval Centre (ESU Building) 146W Toorak Road, South Yarra, AustraliaA Navy Video produced by our Navy Video Unit, Sydney in 2008 - a navy does not drop from the clouds. It is a miraculous and delicate instrument, a creation of nerves as well as steel, united with blood as well as rivets; it is in many ways the greatest expression of a nation's genius. […]
Pipeclay Club lunch – 134th Year Luncheon
RACV City Club 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne, AustraliaThe Pipeclay Club was founded on the 16th May 1881 at a meeting held at the Earl of Zetland Hotel. Join us at the RACV Club for lunch on Friday 15th May 2015 to celebrate 134 years since the Club was originally formed. Lunch includes a 2 course meal. Drinks at menu prices. Guests are […]
‘Quiet Lion’ – the story of ‘Weary’ Dunlop
Horsham RSL 36 McLachlan St, Horsham, AustraliaHorsham Sub-Branch RSL and U3A present a series of Military History programs. Horsham RSL / Horsham U3A commenced monthly Military History sessions on Wednesday 24 May 2009 and these are now held on the fourth Wednesday of each month in the Horsham RSL Conference Room commencing at 7-30pm. The sessions are available to all RSL […]