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Dimboola RSL

Locality: Dimboola, Victoria

Address: 113 Lloyd Street 3414 Dimboola, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.rslvic.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Good news alert from RSL Queensland! After 36 years, Vietnam veteran Athol Miller has been reunited with his service medals. When Athol’s house was broken into... and the medals stolen, he didn’t expect to see them again. Earlier this year, the medals were found in a suitcase of donated items at a thrift store. The medals were handed to the Gympie RSL and traced back to Athol. [Image description: Blackbutt RSL Sub Branch President Walter Jacobson and members of the Sub Branch presented Athol with his long-lost medals.]

25.01.2022 A LIFETIME WITH HIM !!!! Willemien Rieken was only 9 years old when she first began laying flowers on the grave of Trooper William Edmond, a British hero ...who fought and died to liberate her Dutch village. From that day, and for 75 years, this amazing woman looked after his grave and kept his memory alive. During WWII, William served with the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron, and took part in the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands. Sadly, on September 17, 1944, he was shot in the back by a German sniper and fell to the ground. One of his comrades, Sgt David Christie, rushed to his aid, but nothing could be done to save William. Seconds before dying, he said to David: "Tell my wife I love her". This British hero was then buried, among his brothers in arms, at the Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. This week, the woman who spent 75 years looking after his grave passed away, at the age of 85. May Trooper William Edmond and Mrs Willemien Rieken both rest in eternal peace. See more

25.01.2022 All seven of Mary and Henry Hutchins sons would enlist to fight in the Second World War - four would never come home to Australia, dying while prisoners of the ...Japanese. After seeing their elder brothers sign up the youngest two Eric and Fred, along with their remaining older brother David, joined up in July 1941. On 29 January 1942 they found themselves as part of the small ‘Gull Force’ on the island of Ambon when a large Japanese force invaded. After being overrun Eric, the baby of the family, would become one of 300 men who were summarily executed by their captors. David and Fred held on in POW camps, through over three years of brutality, forced labour, sickness and starvation until July 1945 when first Fred succumb to malaria and brutality before David died of disease less than three weeks before Japan would surrender. All three died not knowing that their brother Alan had also died a prisoner in New Britain. Learn more, here: http://ow.ly/n9Dq50AV9hr #LegacyOfLiberation #VJDay75 #WW2

24.01.2022 Amazing man,Incredible service to our Nation

24.01.2022 Another great story .

23.01.2022 Stories from the past

23.01.2022 The photograph was taken in December 1916, of an artillery horse used for transporting ammunition to the guns and its unidentified Australian driver on a duckbo...ard track between Mametz and Montauban, on the Western Front. The military used horses in WW1 mainly for logistical support; they were better than mechanized vehicles at traveling through deep mud and over rough terrain. Horses were used for reconnaissance and for carrying messengers well as for pulling artillery, ambulances, and supply wagons. The presence of horses often increased morale among the soldiers at the front. The value of horses and the increasing difficulty of replacing them were such that by 1917, some troops were told that the loss of a horse was of greater tactical concern than the loss of a human soldier. By the end of the war, even the well-supplied US Army was short of horses. Lest We Forget. Photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM E00002. Most of the information came from Wikipedia.

21.01.2022 The 23rd September 1942 was the turning point in the Owen Stanley Kokoda Track Campaign. Australian troops of the 25th Brigade comprising the 2/25th, 2/31st an...d 2/33rd Battalions - and the 16th Brigade - comprising the 2/1st, 2/2nd and 2/3rd Battalions, along with the 3rd Battalion and men from medical and supply units, from the Australian 7th Division began to edge forward from Imita Ridge. The Japanese withdrew from Ioribaiwa the next day. During the next six weeks of their retreat the Japanese fought delaying actions every bit as determined as those of the Australians. We also remember the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel native carriers of Papua New Guinea, who helped secure an Australian victory by forming a human supply chain along the Kokoda Track, moving food, ammunition and wounded soldiers to and from the front line. Approximately 625 Australians were killed along the Kokoda Trail and over 1,600 were wounded. Casualties due to sickness exceeded 4,000. See more

19.01.2022 #OTD: Largest prison escape of WWII On the 5th of August 1944, Australia witnessed the Cowra Breakout when 1,104 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape f...rom a POW camp near Cowra in New South Wales. It was the largest prison escape of WWII, and also one of the bloodiest resulting in 4 Australian and 231 Japanese soldiers killed. During WWII Cowra was the town nearest to No. 12 POW Compound, a camp where 4,000 Axis military personnel and civilians were detained throughout WWII. By August 1944, there were 2,223 Japanese POWs in Australia, as well as 14,720 Italian POWs and 1,585 Germans. At about 0200 on the 5th of August, a Japanese bugle sounded and three mobs of prisoners shouting ‘Banzai!’ began attempting to break through the wire and set a number of camp buildings alight. Within minutes of the bugle sounding, Privates Ben Hardy and Ralph Jones manned a machinegun and began firing on the escaping prisoners. Before being overwhelmed, Private Hardy was able to remove and throw away the gun’s bolt, rendering it useless and preventing the prisoners from using the guns against the guards. For their bravery, both men wold be posthumously awarded the George Cross. Some 359 POWs escaped, whilst a number of others attempted or committed suicide or were killed by their countrymen. Some who did escape chose to commit suicide to avoided recapture. All survivors were captured within 10 days of the breakout. Australia maintained No. 12 POW Compound until the last Japanese and Italian prisoners were repatriated in 1947. Cowra maintains a significant Japanese war cemetery, the only such cemetery in Australia. In addition, a commemorative Japanese garden was later built nearby to memorialise these events. Let us hope that we never have to experience such an event again. --------------------------------------------------------------- If you spot an error, please send me a message. Join our group here: https://business.facebook.com/groups/2626189084317964

18.01.2022 This is one of the saddest stories .

17.01.2022 In May 1962 the Australian government announced that a team of combat experts would be created to train and advise the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The men ...were chosen for their skills and experience in jungle warfare and counter-insurgency, having served in other south-east Asian and Pacific conflicts. After field training at Canungra in Queensland, the 30-man Australian Army Training Team arrived in Vietnam #onthisday in August 1962, becoming the first Australian Army personnel deployed to the Vietnam War. Though the unit was small and its operations fragmented, over the next ten years 1,000 men served in the AATTV, known as "The Team" and the unit became the most highly-decorated and the longest-serving Australian unit in Vietnam, there until the end of the war. Appropriately, the unit’s motto is persevere. The AATTV plaque at Anzac Square commemorates their service and those lives lost.

14.01.2022 A truly beautiful story of human compassion at its finest

14.01.2022 Claude Stanley Choules (3 March 1901 5 May 2011) was an English-born military serviceman from Perth, Western Australia, who at the time of his death was the o...ldest combat veteran of WW1, having served with the Royal Navy from 1915 until 1926. After having emigrated to Australia he served with the Royal Australian Navy, from 1926 until 1956, as a Chief Petty Officer and was a naturalised Australian citizen. In December 2011, the landing ship HMAS Choules was named after him, only the second Royal Australian Navy vessel named after a sailor. Claude Choules was able to leave school when he turned 14, at which point he attempted to enlist in the army as a bugler boy but was rejected as he was too young. His father then arranged for him to train to join the navy instead, and in April 1915, at age 14, he joined the nautical training ship TS Mercury. On the 20th of October 1917, Claude Choules joined the battleship Revenge, which was the flagship of the First Battle Squadron and stationed at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. While serving aboard it, he saw action against a German zeppelin, and witnessed the surrender of the German Imperial Navy at the Firth of Forth in 1918, ten days after the Armistice, as well as witnessing the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. In 1926, along with 11 other Royal Navy senior sailors, Claude Choules travelled to Australia on loan as an instructor at Flinders Naval Depot. He decided to transfer permanently to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) after sampling and agreeing with the Australian way of life. During WW2 Claude Choules was the acting Torpedo Officer at HMAS Leeuwin, the naval base at Fremantle, Western Australia, and also served as the Chief Demolition Officer on the western side of the Australian continent. He was tasked with sabotaging Fremantle harbours and related oil storage tanks in the event of a Japanese invasion. He was also responsible for dealing with the first German mine to wash up on Australian soil during the war, near Esperance, Western Australia. Claude Choules and his wife Ethel were married for 76 years, until her death at age 98. He died on the 5th of May 2011. He was survived by three children, 11 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. He was given a naval funeral in Fremantle, Western Australia on the 20th of May 2011. Lest We Forget. Information and photograph came from Wikipedia.

14.01.2022 Another courageous war story

14.01.2022 Something a little different .

13.01.2022 A courageous story

13.01.2022 Lest We Forget

13.01.2022 For your interest

12.01.2022 A remarkable and courageous story ,which happened 78 years ago today .

11.01.2022 COURAGEOUS . LEST WE FORGET

09.01.2022 Today we remember the 2,000 Australian men who lost their lives 105 years ago in the four day Battle of Lone Pine. Their courage and sacrifice lives on in memo...rial gardens, schools and civic spaces around Australia, thanks to Lance Corporal Benjamin Charles Smith. LCPL Smith collected several pine cones from the branches used to cover the Turkish trenches and sent them home to his mother in remembrance of his brother Mark, who had died in the fighting on 6 August. From one of these cones two seedlings were raised, with one being planted in Inverell and one on the ground of the Australian War Memorial. To learn more about the Lone Pine seedlings visit - https://www.awm.gov.au/shop/lone-pine-seedlings #LestWeForget : Jorge Láscar/Flickr

08.01.2022 Such brave ladies .

08.01.2022 A must read LEST WE FORGET

08.01.2022 80 years ago. The few who stood against Nazi tyranny in the Battle of Britain.

06.01.2022 A story of great bravery

06.01.2022 Another tragic story

06.01.2022 We must never forget

05.01.2022 Another tragic story

05.01.2022 The sounding of the Last Post at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial has been undertaken by the Last Post Ieper Association eve...ry evening, aside from during the Second World War, since 1928. On Sunday 20 September the ceremony was held for the 31,900th time. A reminder that a reduced capacity remains in place with only 200 people allowed to attend the ceremony, the wearing of facemasks is compulsory and social distancing measures will be in place. #WeAreCWGC #WW1

05.01.2022 Wonderful Women

05.01.2022 Another story of the past .

05.01.2022 When the Second World War began John Oakeshott decided to put his medical training to use by joining the 10th Australian General Hospital. He was sent to Singap...ore in 1941 where he would become a prisoner of war. In 1945 he was among the last 38 prisoners left alive at Ranau at the end of July. After a guard warned one of the POWs that the intention was to kill them, this prisoner offered John the chance to join their small escape group, but he chose to stay with the sick and dying men. He and 14 others were shot by Japanese guards on 27 August 1945, 12 days after Japan had surrendered. His family had heard nothing since late 1942. Two months after celebrating the end of the war in hope of John’s return, the grim telegram arrived. Today, he is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Labuan War Cemetery in a grave with four of the men he chose not to leave. Learn more, here: http://ow.ly/mdqT50AYiuE #LegacyOfLiberation #VJDay75 #WW2

04.01.2022 Interesting story

04.01.2022 Great photos about our sad past

03.01.2022 The Dimboola RSL would be very interested in your comments regarding the stories that we put up on our page .Take care friends Cheers Rhonda

02.01.2022 R.I.P. Sarbi, Australia's most decorated war dog. Lest We Forget