Tag: Anzac Centenary
Questions left unasked
By BRIDGET SCOTT
WHEN Beryl Craig reflects on the time she spent with her father, she wished she had asked more.
“He didn’t talk much,” but...
The fabulous baker boys
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THEY were the baker’s boys - eight men employed by local Narre Warren baker Donald Hartley Rowe who all enlisted to fight...
Study tour across history
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THIS month 15-year-old Hayley Hickey stood looking over Anzac Cove and was lost for words.
The current Year 10 student from Fountain Gate...
Spirit etched in bronze age
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
NORM Barr’s legacy is attached to each name engraved in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
The late Narre Warren Rotarian, and his...
Sons and daughters of Anzac
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
ENDEAVOUR Hills cenotaph hosted one of its strongest recent turnouts at Wednesday’s Anzac Day service.
A 100-strong throng of dignitaries, veterans, students and...
Artist goes into action
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
HARKAWAY always served as a constant in the life of nurse Jessie Traill, both before and after her service in World War...
Small stature sapper built to fight above his weight
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
IT WAS no big problem for Hallam-born Sapper John Alfred Brown to convince authorities he could enlist in the Light Horse Brigade...
Diggers came from far and wide
WHEN he died at his Cranbourne home in 1963, Gallipoli veteran Jack Telling was surrounded by “many old Diggers and Gippsland friends" according to...
Pensions for families of the fallen
NEWSPAPERS were key to the recruiting effort in Victoria during World War I.
The frontlines in Turkey and Europe needed a continual supply of new...
Words behind the loss
By BRIDGET SCOTT
NO KNOWN grave - a distressing term used to describe the hundreds of soldiers who fought for their country, yet never came...
Retreat from hell
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THE appended letter was received by Mr H McCann of Berwick from Private W.V Watson, on the battlefront in WWI, and was...
Families scarred by war’s tragedies
THE scars of the Great War run deep in many families as Dandenong RSL sub-branch president John Wells knows all too well.
Mr Wells's grandmother...
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Bunjil Place lights up this Christmas
Twilight Christmas Makers Market and Lighting of the Christmas Tree event will return to Bunjil Place on Saturday 30 November.
Bunjil Place Plaza will transform...
