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Battlefield is still revealing its past
By CASEY NEILL A RUSTED and battered piece of metal will take pride of place in the Dandenong RSL. Sub-branch president John Wells said…
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Service in a sea of suffering
A DECORATED World War I nurse is buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery. The final resting place for Mrs Attiwill – known during the war…
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Standing where others fell
COUNCILLOR Angela Long has stood in Turkey where Australian and New Zealand soldiers fell 100 years ago. At her own expense she took part…
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Memories kept in silent sleep
By MAREE ROWE THE first name on the World War I honour board that hangs in Dandenong’s Drum Theatre is that of Albert Edward…
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In the thick of the fighting
By NARELLE COULTER WILLIAM HOLFORD was among the fortunate Anzacs who lived to watch the grisly Gallipoli peninsula fade into the distance as the…
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Duty bound
WOUNDED Gallipoli veteran George Pearson was lauded as a hero when he returned to Dandenong in October 1915. Grainy photographs taken outside the Dandenong…
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Mission to save wounded
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG man Rod Tharle thought his great uncle had died on a World War I battlefield. But just a few years…
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Journal in the trenches
COPIES of the Journal were sent to Gallipoli to keep soliders in touch with news from home. A letter written from Gaba Tepe on…
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Wounded but ready to fight again
By KEITH NOYAHR SERGEANT Edward Barker literally lived to fight another day. Wounded twice in World War I, and undeterred by the battle scars…
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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’…
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Trail hosts signs of war
INTERACTIVE signs will take visitors on a World War I tour across Greater Dandenong. The council will install markers at nine historic locations in…
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More time spent fighting his own side
By CASEY NEILL EDWARD James Regan was court-martialled three times during his World War I service – once after shooting himself in the foot.…
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