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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…
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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 an…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.…
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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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