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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rise of natural leader
By CASEY NEILL LIEUTENANT Raymond Alva Jeffers rose from humble beginnings on a farm in Cora Lynn to become a highly-decorated World War I…
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Life scarred by war horrors
Journal columnist Jack Johnson is the son of a World War I veteran. In this special commemorative edition Jack writes “with love to our…
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Battlefield aggression led to critical success
MOST visitors to Springvale Botanical Cemetery would walk past Robert Cuthbert Grieve’s grave without a second glance. But the World War I veteran was…
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Historic dawn rises
WITH war still raging in Europe, the Dandenong community gathered at the town’s state primary school on 25 April 1916 to commemorate the first…
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Diary of dispatches
LANCE Corporal William John Meehan kept a detailed diary throughout World War I. His first entry was on 19 September 1916 as he set…
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Fortitude shows the Anzac spirit is in us all
John Wells Dandenong Cranbourne RSL president The Anzacs are still here. The centenary of the landings at Gallipoli is a great opportunity for us…
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Greatest bravery laid to rest
EIGHT Victoria Cross recipients have been laid to rest in the Springvale Botanical Cemetery – probably more than any other cemetery in Australia. Historian…
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