Tag: Anzac Centenary
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 as...
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 in...
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 Alexander.
Private...
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 British...
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 Town...
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 ago he...
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 the...
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 of the...
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' grandmother...
Boys booted up to serve
By JARROD POTTER
BROTHERS in arms until the very end, a well-loved and greatly-mourned Dandenong Football Club tandem gave their lives in the service of...
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 Dandenong,...
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.
He was...
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GSEM thinktank for jobs growth
Government, industry, education and community leaders from the South East gathered for a jobs and skills summit at Bunjil Place on 3 May.
Advocacy group...
