Avalon Tattoo-2nd Saturday in June

Avalon Tattoo-2nd Saturday in June Free community music & food event. Displays from Defence, Cadets,Air League, Community Services, Sea Scouts, Pipe & Brass bands & much more.

Avalon Tattoo, is a free community event with Displays from the
Australian Navy, Army & Air Force, Navy, Army & Air-force Cadets. Also Displays from the NSW Rural Fire Service, NSW Fire & Rescue, SES, NSW Marine Rescue, St Johns Ambulance, ANL Huey Helicopter, the Vietnam Bus and much much more. School and community Bands,
Australian Federal Police Pipe Band (They Performed at 2010 Edinburgh Tat

too),
National Serviceman's Pipes and Drums,
NSW Rural Fire Service Pipe Band,
Burwood RSL Pipes & Drums,
The NSW Fire & Rescue Band & Precision Marching Team,
Australian Air League Riverwood "Hornets" Drums Corps. David Bowers of Clan Gregor as "The Lone Piper"

08/03/2026
16/02/2026

Today we honour the memory of 21 Australian Army nurses who were murdered in the Bangka Island massacre during World War II. They were evacuating Singapore aboard the SS Vyner Brooke with wounded Allied servicemen and civilians when the ship was bombed by Japanese planes on 15 February 1942.

Around 150 survivors swam to Bangka Island and surrendered to Japanese troops the following day. The men were killed and 22 Australian nurses, and one British civilian woman, were forced to wade into the sea. The Japanese soldiers then shot them.

Sister Vivian Bullwinkel was the only nurse who survived. She was shot in the abdomen and lay in the water until the Japanese left. She hid for several days but eventually surrendered and became a prisoner of war.

Bullwinkel survived three years of captivity in a POW camp. She later gave evidence of the massacre at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.

📷 Defence Australia | Nursing Officers holding portraits of those killed in the Bangka Island massacre

26/10/2025
16/08/2025

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