Gallipoli and Beyond 2015

01/10/2017

Please note that this is our last FB post for a long time. We have completed our WW1 remembrance program and now want to thank all our supporters, participants and friends. City of Boroondara and the Federal Government's ANZAC Commemorative grant also made it all possible. For any further information, please go to https://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/about-council/history-and-demographics/local-history/first-world-war-and-gallipoli

23/04/2017

Kew RSL march for Anzac Day.

18/04/2017

Our Gallipoli Oak growing well in Surrey Gardens, Victoria. See you at those gardens for the ANZAC day dawn service this year.

13/04/2017

One of our members, Sue Barnett, has been honoured by having her photograph displayed at Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre. In the photo, Sue is holding the to***co tin her Grandfather brought in France where he served as an ambulance bearer during WW1.

10/03/2017

Local war memorial to the fallen in both wars. Do you know where this one is?

08/02/2017

Building works completed in 1915. How much building work was conducted in Boroondara during WWI?

22/01/2017

WW1 memorial at Walhalla, Victoria. Note the service numbers next to the names.

12/08/2016

On the 101st Anniversary of the Battle of Lone Pine, this tree in Wattle Park, Burwood Victoria brings it all closer to home.

31/07/2016

See what Adelaide is doing to commemorate the centenary of the Great War https://flandersfieldspoppytrail.com

A series of cultural events and exhibitions to commemorate Australians, French and Belgians; allies during WW1

19/07/2016

Today marks the Centenary of the Battle of Fromelles (19–20 July 1916). It was a British military operation on the Western Front during World War I and one of the deadliest and most gruesome in Australia's military history with 5,500 Australian casualties on the first day. Australian WWI correspondent Charles Bean famously reported the Pozieres ridge was "more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place on Earth". "The men were simply turned in there as into some ghastly giant mincing machine," he later wrote.

09/07/2016

Part of the beautiful Springthorpe Memorial in Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, Victoria. Dr John Springthorpe studied 'shell shock' (or what we now refer to as 'post traumatic stress disorder') in soldiers during WWI.

03/05/2016

Look where ""5000 poppies"" went to! (as seen in the all the Herald Sun Tuesday 5th April 2016).