Diggers Military MC Northside

19/01/2026

DIGGERS MILITARY MC
ANZAC DAY OVERNIGHT POKER RUN

📅 Saturday 18 April 2026
📍 Biboohra Servo, QLD
⏰ Rego from 0800

Join us up north for an overnight ANZAC Day Poker Run in support of the veteran community.

This is a proper ride, a proper night, and a proper reason.
Poker run, raffles, ANZAC memorial service, BBQs, and an overnight camp.
🏕 Overnight camping – bring your swags
♠️ Poker run
🎖 ANZAC remembrance
🔥 BBQs & raffles
💚 All funds raised support veterans

Whether you ride in for the day or stay the night, come be part of something that actually matters.

Start: Biboohra Servo, QLD
Finish: You’ll know when you get there
Entry: $30 per rider | $10 per pillion

All back patch clubs, please make contact prior.

More details coming soon.
Lest we forget.

01/12/2025

HMAS Armidale was sunk by Japanese aircraft near Timor on 01 December 1942.

As the Armidale was sinking Ordinary Seaman Edward "Teddy" Sheean, who had been wounded in the initial attack, strapped himself into one of Armidale's 20 mm Oerlikons and opened fire on the aircraft.

Sheean forced one Zero to crash into the sea and damaged at least two others; continuing to fire until he went down with Armidale.

In 2020 following a sustained public campaign to have Ordinary Seaman Sheean’s selfless actions appropriately recognised, an expert panel recommended to the Australian Government that he be considered for the award of a Victoria Cross.

On 12 August 2020 it was announced that HM Queen Elizabeth II had approved a posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Ordinary Seaman Sheean. In doing so, Ordinary Seaman ‘Teddy’ Sheean, became the first member of the Royal Australian Navy to be awarded Australia’s highest honour for valour.

Commissioned on 23 February 2001, the Collins Class submarine HMAS Sheean entered service, named after Teddy Sheean.

Artwork by Dale Marsh - Australian War Memorial ART28160

29/11/2025

29 November 2006

In Memory of Black Hawk A25-221

On this day in 2006, Australian Army Black Hawk A25-221, embarked on HMAS Kanimbla (L 51), was lost during a landing on the aft flight deck while deployed on Operation Quickstep, the ADF mission to evacuate Australians from Fiji during the unfolding coup.

The aircraft went over the side with ten personnel on board.
Nine were initially recovered.
One was lost to the sea until found later.
Out of the ten, two never came home alive.

Captain Mark Bingley, Pilot - 171st Special Operations Aviation Squadron
Trooper Joshua Porter, Passenger - Special Air Service Regiment

Their loss is still felt across Navy, Army, aviation communities and among all who served with Kanimbla and the embarked forces. Many in our own circles carry memories of that night, the ship, the sea and the weight that settled over everyone who was there.

Today we stand with them.
We honour them.
And we remember them.

10/11/2025

On the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour in 1918, the guns fell silent.

Today at the same hour, Australia will pause for one minute of silence.

As we approach that moment, we honour all Australian servicemen, past, present and fallen, who have served our nation in war, conflict and peacekeeping.

We remember those who never returned, those who returned forever changed, and those still wearing the uniform today. Their courage, endurance and sacrifice continue to shape our nation.

As a club built on service, brotherhood and respect, we stand together in remembrance.

At 11:00, wherever you are, stop. Reflect. Remember. Honour their service and the sacrifice of their families.

Lest we forget.

Photo: Australian Diggers celebrate the Armistice in French lines.

09/11/2025

HMAS Sydney (I) – Battle of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 1914

111 years ago, HMAS Sydney (I) destroyed the German raider SMS Emden in Australia’s first naval battle. Four Australians were killed, but their courage and victory defined the spirit of our Navy.

They fought with honour, helped their enemies, and set the standard for generations to come.

Lest we forget. ⚓🇦🇺

23/10/2025

Great run last weekend! Always good to go for a spin with brothers

brothers from Sydney and Diggers Military MC Northside chaters out and about on poker run Saturday

17/08/2025

Today, on Vietnam Veterans’ Day, we stop and pay our respects to the brothers who carried the weight of a nation’s decisions on their shoulders.

Over 60,000 Australians from the Navy, Army, and Air Force served in Vietnam between 1962 and 1973. More than 15,000 of them were Nashos — young blokes ripped from their everyday lives by conscription, thrown into uniform, trained, and sent to fight in a war they didn’t choose. They stood shoulder to shoulder with regulars and served with distinction.

In 1975, when the end came and Saigon was falling, Air Force crews went back in — flying evacuations, pulling people out, helping refugees in the chaos.

523 never came home alive. Around 3,000 came back wounded, broken, or ill. And thousands more carried home scars you couldn’t see — scars that never left them.

To our Vietnam veterans — your service is honoured, your sacrifice is remembered, and your fight is not forgotten.

Lest we forget.