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21.01.2022 What a special day we had with these 2 treasures.
20.01.2022 Having a look around the neighbourhood at some of the beautiful driveway tributes. Do you have a photo to add to this very special ANZAC DAY Lest We Forget
19.01.2022 Bruce Robertson...100 years young!
18.01.2022 Today we remember those that lost their lives at The Nek These men a but a few of them - Top Left: 542 Trooper Archibald Herbert Moreton, 8th Light Horse Regi...ment from Geelong, Victoria. A 21 year old farmer prior to enlisting on 11 January 1915, he embarked for overseas with C Squadron from Melbourne on 25 February 1915 aboard HMAT Star of Victoria. After joining the regiment at Gallipoli, he was killed in action at the Nek on 7 August 1915 and is buried in the Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. Top Right: 541 Trooper (Tpr) Edward (Ted) Percival Hendy, 8th Light Horse Regiment, of Geelong, Vic. A farmer before enlisting in January 1915, Tpr Hendy was a member of C Squadron and left Australia for Egypt in February 1915. Arriving on Gallipoli in May 1915, Tpr Hendy was wounded in the right thigh during the charge at The Nek on 7 August 1915. He was evacuated to a hospital ship but died two days later, aged 20, and was buried at sea. According to a letter written to Tpr Hendy's next of kin by a member of his regiment "A finer or more unselfish comrade, or a braver soldier than your late son, Ted, I never wish to meet". Bottom Left: 260 Sergeant (Sgt) Russell William Gibson, B Squadron, 1st Light Horse Regiment, of Hay, NSW. A Clerk prior to enlistment he embarked from Sydney on board HMAT Star of Victoria (A16) on 20 October 1914. Sgt Gibson was killed in action on 7 August 1915, aged 21. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the The lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. Bottom Right: 304 Lance Corporal Arthur Norman Tetley Of King Island, Tas, 8 Light Horse Regiment. He was in the first line in the charge at the Nek on 7 August 1915. He died of wounds aboard a hospital ship on 8 August 1915. 'Lest We Forget'
18.01.2022 Thank you for your service and sacrifice Teddy Sheean. Lest We Forget
16.01.2022 Today marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Australian prisoners of war at Changi. While many Australians know of the heroic deeds of Weary Dunlop, t...he illustrious and indefatigable surgeon who assisted the wounded and dying, less will know of Corporal Rodney Breavington, who was executed on 2 September 1942 at Changi Beach for trying to escape. British and Australian officers witnessed the execution; they later wrote that Corporal Breavington faced death with remarkable fortitude. Read more about Corporal Breavington and the liberation of Changi: https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/changi-liberation Image: Changi, Singapore, 1945. A group of prisoners of war photographed at Changi prisoner of war camp shortly after the surrender of the Japanese. 043596
15.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/100002391016705/posts/3334227723333562/
13.01.2022 Letters from Gallipoli
12.01.2022 Studio portrait of 990 Private (Pte) Alfred Arthur Stanley (right), 6th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse Regiment, of Melbourne, Vic (originally of Hawkes Bay, N...ew Zealand) and probably 975 Pte Nesbitt Henry Lumsden (left), 6th Reinforcements, 8th Light Horse Regiment, of Mortlake, Vic, taken in 1915. The two soldiers are shaking hands and doing the formal Maori greeting known as the hongi: where two people press their faces together, nose to nose. (DA09666, Photographer: Darge Photographic Company) #PhotoOfTheWeek
11.01.2022 Australian Ernest Peacock was one of, if not the first, western journalists to interview Mustapha Kemal after the war when he met him in Istanbul on 14th Decemb...er 1918. Their subject, what else, was Gallipoli. COMMANDER INTERVIEWED In a telegram from Constantinople on December 14, Mr Peacock says: Glad and Charmed were the words with which Mustapha Kemal Pasha, commander of the Turkish Anzac and Suvla armies in 1915, greeted me. It is a most curious atmosphere here an atmosphere of extreme politeness, with the Turkish leaders trying to insinuate cordiality into the everlasting Anglophilsm. I found the sensation of interviewing this cultivated Turk, drinking coffee and smoking fine cigarettes in his luxurious apartments, curious indeed. The Australians are very good fighters, he said, in French. I often spoke to my men about them. They thought them terrible, but brave. Kemal Pasha commanded the Turks in the Anafarta and Anzac regions from the landing until a fortnight before the evacuation, when he became sick. He described the plan of attack as a good and strong idea, but said: It was a mistake to make the naval attack first, then go away, and return. If the landing had been combined with the first naval attack it would have succeeded, and Constantinople would have been captured. We got warning, and prepared strong defences, we knew weeks before that the British intended to make the landing, hence the strength of our defences. I thought the landing at Anzac impossible. AREA HELD WAS TOO LARGE Then? I asked. You made the mistake of trying to hold too large an area, was the reply. If the Australians had occupied a smaller area they would have held it securely, with less loss. I saw the mistake immediately and sent my main|force round the left, driving in the flank, while small holding forces opposed your centre. Here the General sketched the Turkish dispositions on April 25, the day of the landing, showing the movements of the infantry and enveloping flank. We had very heavy losses, he continued, but almost destroyed the attacking force. We:drove it into a tiny area on the coast, where it was under the protection of the warships. It was a very daring adventure, and if more men had been employed at Anzac it would have succeeded. Only the bravest troops could accomplish what was done. We feared failure for some weeks, but then our confidence became absolute, and after the Suvla landing we always had the best of positions. Kemal admitted that the Turks were short of ammunition, but he claimed, that they always had enough to keep going. The supply was always short, but it was never exhausted. He later commanded in the Caucasus and Syria. It was difficult to realise that one was in the presence of the man who fought us so bitterly. He spoke so sincerely of the courage and resourcefulness of the Australians that before departing I found myself saying that if ever, he visited Australia the would find many of his old opponents glad to see him. [1] [1] 'The Herald' (Melbourne, Victoria), 27th December 1918.
11.01.2022 A 9th Light Horse trooper sitting down to lunch with his best mate.
11.01.2022 101 years old, Sergeant Bert Le-Merton has walked over 107km to raise over $86,000 so far for veteran support charity Soldier On. What an absolute legend! I sp...oke to Bert earlier this week to congratulate him on his amazing efforts and also to wish him a happy 102nd birthday for next Wednesday. Bert, who lives in Western Sydney, served for Australia in North Africa and the Pacific during the Second World War. He wanted to help the younger generation of veterans because he’d seen how some of them had struggled to adapt back to life after service. On Victory in Pacific Day in August this year he set himself the challenge of walking the length of the Kokoda Track (96km) to raise money for Soldier On. He did this by walking around the block every day with his walker. Initially he hoped to raise $10,000 but he quickly smashed that target. How good would it be if he could smash his next target of raising $102,000 before his 102nd birthday on Wednesday. He’s had to pause his walking for a bit while he recovers from a leg injury but hopes to be back at it again soon and we wish him a speedy recovery. If you’d like to donate to help Bert reach his target and support our veterans visit: https://fundraise.soldieron.org.au/marchonwithbert
10.01.2022 I found this incredible photograph over a year ago. It was taken in 1918 by Captain Frank Hurley, a well-known official Australian war photographer and captione...d "An Australian Light Horseman collecting anemones near Belah in Palestine". In 2007, the soldier was identified as being Trooper George "Pop" Redding, 8th Light Horse Regiment. Trooper Redding enlisted from Benalla, Victoria, on the 28th of August 1915, stating his age to be 44. He was in fact 57 making him nearly 61 at the time of this photograph and one of the oldest enlisted men in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). I found a death notice in 'The Age' newspaper (Melbourne) dated Saturday the 10th of August, 1935. Redding On the 6th August, at Beulah (suddenly). George (Dad), beloved husband of the late Isabella, and son of the Thomas and Ellen Redding, Samaria, late 8th Light Horse Regiment, AIF, aged, 78. Lest We Forget. Information and photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM P03631.046.
09.01.2022 On Victory in the Pacific Day, 15 August 1945, spontaneous rejoicing broke out with celebrations in cities across the nation. Scenes of jubilation contrasted ...with somber reflection and thanksgiving as many experienced conflicting emotions: relief that the war was finally over, grief for those who were lost, and apprehension for the future. Victory in the Pacific! photographic exhibition is on display at the Memorial until 7 September 2020. Learn more: http://ow.ly/w3pR50AWZui Pic: Five newly liberated Australian prisoners of war in Singapore, September 1945. Most families of prisoners of the Japanese knew very little about the fate of their loved ones, some of whom had been in captivity for three and a half years. Photo: Z. Oliver AWM P01182.005
09.01.2022 Happy Anniversary
08.01.2022 Lieutenant Hugo Throssell was awarded the Victoria Cross for action at Hill 60, Gallipoli #onthisday in 1915, when he and his men became involved in a fierce bo...mb fight. Throssell was wounded twice but even with his face covered in blood he refused medical help, continuing to shout encouragement to his men. His was the first Victoria Cross awarded to a Western Australian in the war, and the only one to an Australian light horseman. Learn more about Throssell: http://ow.ly/RIFb50B37Fg Image: Hugo recovering from wounds received at Gallipoli. P00516.003
08.01.2022 #Onthisday in 1943 the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the south Queensland coast. Only 64 of the 333 on boa...rd survived. The survivors spent 35 hours on rafts before being rescued. Sister Ellen Savage was the only one of twelve nursing sisters on board to survive. Despite her own injuries she gave great help to the other survivors and was awarded the George Medal for her actions. Learn more: http://ow.ly/4fJa50zCbH5 Poster: ‘Work, save, fight and so avenge the nurses!’. ARTV09088.
08.01.2022 I know I have shared this before! but for me it's one of the most important pieces I have written! Lest We Forget
07.01.2022 An incredible WW2 hero. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (30 August 1912 7 August 2011) - 'The White Mouse'. Nancy Wake, a prominent figure in the French Resi...stance during WW2, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on the 30th of August 1912. Her family moved to Sydney, where she grew up, when she was just 20 months old. She ran away from home at the age of 16 and found work as a nurse, but a windfall enabled her to leave Australia for Europe in 1932. She settled in Paris, working for the Hearst group of newspapers as a journalist. As the 1930s progressed, the rise of German Fascism formed the basis of many of Nancy Wake's stories. In 1935 she visited Vienna and Berlin where the overt and violent anti-Semitism formed in her a desire to oppose Nazism. In November 1939 she married Henri Fiocca, a wealthy industrialist, in Marseilles. Six months later Germany invaded France. Nancy Wake and Fiocca joined the fledgling Resistance after France's surrender in 1940. Her growing involvement in the Resistance saw Nancy Wake and her husband assisting in the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees from France into neutral Spain. Fearful of being captured she too fled Marseilles and, after several thwarted attempts and a brief period in prison, Nancy Wake escaped across the Pyrenees. In June 1943 she reached England where she began working in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). After a period of training, Nancy Wake returned to France in April 1944 to help organise the Resistance before D-Day. Working in the Auvergne region, she was engaged in organising parachute drops of arms and equipment, and after D-Day, was involved in combat with bodies of German troops sent to destroy the Maquis. Upon liberation, she learned that her husband, Henri, had been killed by the Gestapo in August 1943. In September 1944 she left the Resistance and went to SOE Headquarters in Paris, and then to London in mid-October. After the war she was decorated by Britain, France and the United States but, being unable to adapt to life in post-war Europe, she returned to Australia in January 1949 aged 37. Shortly afterwards she ran for the Liberal Party against Labor's 'Doc' Evatt and, having been narrowly defeated, made a second attempt in 1951, again unsuccessfully. Nancy Wake returned to England, and in 1957, married John Forward, an RAF officer. The couple returned to Australia in 1959. A third attempt to enter politics also failed and she and her husband ultimately retired to Port Macquarie where they lived until his death in 1997. In December 2001 she left Australia for England where she lived out her remaining years. Nancy Wake received the George Medal, 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, British War Medal 1939-45, French Officer of the Legion of Honour, French Croix de Guerre with Star and two Palms, US Medal for Freedom with Palm and French Medaille de la Resistance for her courageous endeavours. Lest We Forget. Information and photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM P00885.001.
05.01.2022 We Will Remember Them, Lest We Forget
04.01.2022 Derek Holyoake was just 16 when his father sent him to join the navy in 1940, telling him that he’d be safe there during the war. I had no option. In those day...s, we did what we were told, and it was just as well. He joined the army and sold the house, so I didn’t have a home to go to, so when I finished my recruit training and was posted to HMAS Hobart on the 20th of January 1941, that was my home, and my shipmates were my family. Read more about Derek and his Naval experiences during the war: http://ow.ly/A9hp50zwXvD Photo: Studio portrait of 24474 Seaman Derek Arthur Holyoake who served during the Second World War. AWM2017.520.1.2405
03.01.2022 #MuseumAtHome Just months before he sailed for Gallipoli a young Australian soldier on leave in Egypt recorded a letter to send home. This unique artefact is t...he oldest known recording of an ordinary solider at war. In Episode 17 of the Collected Podcast, Louise Maher hears the story of the Lanser disc and other recorded letters and messages which enabled families on the home front to hear the voices of their loved ones serving overseas. Listen to Collected and other War Memorial podcast, research a family member, explore our interactive digital experiences, and watch videos about the amazing objects in our collection. https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/museumathome
03.01.2022 The Sandakan death march which saw the loss of nearlt 2500 Australian and British POW's Lest We Forget
01.01.2022 A brave digger who lost his life fighting for his country and our freedom. Lest We Forget.
