Teen flees after car chase
By CASEY NEILL
A TEEN is on the run following a pursuit in Dandenong that ended with a police car being rammed.
Greater Dandenong CIU Detective...
New charges for terror accused teen
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
A HAMPTON Park man who had been placed in preventative detention since Saturday’s counter-terrorism raids has been released, re-arrested and charged by...
Wheels roll in to back local manufacturing
By CASEY NEILL
“A GERM of an idea around a dinner table” grew into a traffic-stopping showcase of Dandenong’s manufacturing strength.
Calls to create...
Uniform is badge of honour
By CASEY NEILL
THE World War I uniform in the Dandenong RSL foyer it more than just clothing.
It belonged to Corporal Victor Royston Smith, an...
Onto the pages of history
By NARELLE COULTER
ROUSED from what must have been a fitful sleep at 3am on 25 April 1915, Harold 'Shaver' Tulloch ate breakfast at 4am...
Brothers on the battlefield
By CASEY NEILL
THREE Fleming brothers left Springvale for the foreign battlefields of World War I.
Unlike many who fought during the Great War, William Henry,...
War to end all wars didn’t end madness
By CASEY NEILL
WAR has become a family affair for the Meehans, but Noble Park RSL president John hopes the tradition ends with him.
“I’m very...
Bayonet charge on enemy
By CASEY NEILL
SERGEANT Charles Henry Masters was one of the first men in Dandenong to enlist for World War I.
He was also one of...
Farmer’s blood soaks into foreign field’s soil
By CHRIS KEYS
IF YOUNG Keysborough farmer Eric Martin had time to take any comfort in the moments before his death from wounds sustained on...
Spirits go undampened
By CASEY NEILL
SACRIFICE, mateship and courage were the common themes at Anzac centenary commemorations held in Springvale and Noble Park yesterday (Sunday).
Wet weather forced...
Battle’s school of hard knocks
By NARELLE COULTER
THE ghosts of Lighthorsemen past ride on at Dandenong High School, their memory preserved in the school’s official colours - dark blue,...
The daily grind of battle
By NARELLE COULTER
THE amputation of a thumb failed to hamper Eric Keys’s writing ability as he passed time convalescing in Egypt far from his...