Rosewood RSL in Rosewood, Queensland | Non-profit organisation

Rosewood RSL

Locality: Rosewood, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 3040 1336

Address: ANZAC Park 1 Mill Street 4340 Rosewood, QLD, Australia

Website: https://rosewoodrsl.org

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25.01.2022 VALE HAROLD MARTIN One of Australia’s last Thai-Burma Railway survivors died yesterday afternoon in Albany at the age of 103. For what he went through and the l...egacy he honoured, Harold Martin was a giant in a city inextricably linked with the history of Australia’s wartime sacrifice. Mr Martin endured two years of slave labour on what came to be known as the Death Railway before he was put on a ship bound for Japanese coal mines. That ship was hit by US torpedoes, leaving him and hundreds of other skeletal prisoners of war treading water in the South China Sea. He and 72 fellow Allied soldiers were picked up by the crew of the USS Pampanito after almost four days spent clinging to makeshift life rafts. In the past decade, Mr Martin made several trips back to Thailand and Myanmar. He recited the Ode at the Hellfire Pass dawn service last year. In April last year, before that final return to the railway, he told friends it would be fitting in a sense if he died in Thailand. I honestly think his opinion is, ‘Well, I’d be here with all the others who didn’t make it back’, friend Morris Blake told the Advertiser last year. More than 2700 Australians died working on the Thai-Burma Railway. Lest we forget.

22.01.2022 #Onthisday in 1968 HMAS Sydney leaves Brisbane on its tenth voyage to Vietnam. The 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on board. Read more: http://ow.ly/i...Hue50zEGEJ Photo: Private Len Christopher, was among 500 officers and men of 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (4RAR), who embarked on HMAS Sydney in Brisbane to begin a twelve month tour of duty in Vietnam with the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF).

20.01.2022 The fight for a Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide needs your help...

17.01.2022 Julie-Ann Finney will be on Brisbane ABC radio today at 5.05pm (QLD time), with Steve Austin, to discuss the need for a full Royal Commission into veteran suic...ide. A successful motion by Senator Jacqui Lambie rejecting the government's proposed Independent Commissioner and an event being run by Julie-Anne on 27 June will be amongst the subjects discussed. Please share widely and tune in online wherever you are. https://www.abc.net.au/radio/brisbane/live/

08.01.2022 Today for #InternationalNursesDay, we’re sharing another story of Australian nurses who served during wartime. Sister Vivian Bullwinkel served with the Australi...an General Hospital in Singapore during World War Two, where she was forced to evacuate due to the threat of enemy invasion. To escape the island, Vivian and 65 other nurses boarded the SS Vyner Brooke, however the ship was sunk by enemy aircraft two days later. A group of 22 nurses made it to shore at Radji Beach on Banka Island (other groups landed on other beaches). On Radji Beach, Japanese troops arrived and ordered the nurses to walk into the sea. The Japanese then opened fire. Vivian was to be the only survivor of the massacre. She was shot above the hip, then fell into the water where she pretended to be dead until she could hide in the nearby jungle. She hid for roughly 12 days, before surrendering and becoming a prisoner of war for over three years. Vivian went on to have a distinguished career as an ambassador for nursing and veterans associations. She passed away in 2000 at the age of 85. Thank you for your service Vivian.

03.01.2022 The Shrine of Remembrance is sacred, it is not a place of protest. It is RSL Victoria’s position that Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance is a sacred place, of cr...itical importance to the current and ex-service members of our community, for commemorating service and for the remembrance of those who have died performing their patriotic duty. Under no circumstances, ever, should the Shrine be a place of protest.