Tag: Anzac Centenary
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...
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 soldier...
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...
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 decorated...
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...
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 sail...
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 all to think...
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 and...
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 a farmer...
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Battin the new Victorian Liberal leader
Berwick MP Brad Battin has emerged victorious in the tussle for the Victorian Liberal leadership.
Mr Battin was today (Friday 27 December) elected the Opposition...
