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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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Brother and sister at the front
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS A SISTER followed her brother into wartime duty soon after he was wounded on a French battlefield during World War I.…
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Parking meters may damage business
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS TRADERS could be “up in arms” over the proposed introduction of on-street parking meters in central Springvale, according to a business group…
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Car park to open despite terror concerns
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS and CASEY NEILL DANDENONG Civic Centre’s basement car park will reopen to the public despite concerns that it could me a terror…
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Journal staff go off to war
THE Journal farewelled several members of staff as they signed up to the fight in Europe and Turkey during World War I. On 1…
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