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25.01.2022 -WE NEED YOUR HELP- Swan Hill Rural City Council has advertised that they are going to move a War Memorial dedicated to the Hutchins family, a family in which only 3 out of 7 returned home from World War 2. We need all the help we can get. Please show the Swan Hill City Council that moving the Plaque is the wrong decision by signing our petition and contacting the Council at:... https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-/takeaction/212/084/496/ www.swanhill.vic.gov.au/yoursay or [email protected] Thank you all very much. Updates will be coming soon.
24.01.2022 Today is World Mental Health Day, which is a day for mental health education, awareness and advocacy. We want to take this day to remind veterans and their fam...ilies that Soldier On offers a range of FREE psychology services available in Canberra and Sydney, and soon to be in Melbourne, Currumbin and Perth, including individual and relationship counselling. We are here to provide you with mental health support if you are impacted from trauma and stress-related issues, depression, anxiety or social alienation as a result of your service in the Defence Force. We recognise, honour, and support those Australians who have been psychologically wounded from their service to Australia. We also provide relationship counselling to help couples work through issues, as well as counselling to family members of veterans, including spouses, parents, brothers, sisters and children, who also might be impacted by their loved one's service. To access services, or to make an enquiry, please email us on [email protected] or phone one of our Psychologists on (02) 6188 6143 in Canberra or (02) 6188 6150 in Sydney. Please share this post and spread the word that Soldier On provides free psychology services to veterans and their families. #HelpThemSoldierOn Image: Australian War Memorial
22.01.2022 Private VX41293 - Alan Leslie Hutchins, (Darky) 2/22nd Battalion - D Company Served on the Island of New Britain defending the township of Rabaul. In January 1942, after 3 weeks of heavy air bombardment, Rabaul was attacked by the Japanese from the sea. Overwhelming odds soon broke the Australian's defence. It is estimated that against the original garrison of 1500, the Japanese landed 17,000 men in the immediate vicinity of Rabaul. Though forced to withdraw, the garrison l...eft between 3000 and 4000 Japanese dead on the shores of the bay and harbour. The Australian's were ordered "every man for himself". Most split into small groups, and while some managed to escape, most were killed or captured. Alan died on the 31st of March 1942, when he was believed to have been shot by a Japanese patrol, while trying to evade captivity. His body was never recovered. Alan was 24 yrs of age. He left behind wife Edna and 2 children. See more
21.01.2022 Today marks the 7th anniversary of Corporal Matthew Hopkins. Corporal Hopkins was serving with the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF) in Afghanistan when he was killed. MRTF were conducting a patrol near Kakarak when he and his team were engaged by a group of around 20 Taliban on Monday 16 March, 2009. Twenty-one-year-old Corporal Hopkins was a valued member of the Darwin-based 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. A minute silence is not enough,... Lest We Forget.
20.01.2022 MUM'S 7 WENT TO WAR, ONLY 3 CAME HOME During World War II, seven of the Hutchins brothers enlisted to fight and protect the country they loved. Four of the brothers died tragically under barbaric Japanese imprisonment, or trying to escape it. The surviving three brothers, who returned to Australia at the end of the War, carried physical and psychological scars from their experiences. Lest We Forget.... www.sevensoldiersons.com.au https://www.facebook.com/Seven-Soldier-Sons-287390191345976/
19.01.2022 On May 30th, 2013, Paul Liversidge presents his great-grandmother's seven-star Female Relatives Badge and four-star Mothers and Widows Badge to the Australian War Memorial for donation. Along with the donations were the dog tags worn by his grandfather, Mike (Malcolm) Hutchins, who survived the war. Mary Hutchins and her husband, Henry, did not know what had happened to their four missing sons for years. They lived in the hope that by some miracle they might come home. Hope d...ied forever in a single week in February 1946 when four telegrams, each confirming their worst fears, arrived. Three came on the same day. http://www.canberratimes.com.au//one-familys-sacrifice-nev https://www.awm.gov.au///mother-and-her-seven-soldier-sons
17.01.2022 Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Ambon island, one of the worst death camps of the second world war. Three Hutchins brothers served on Ambon Island, David (33), Eric (18) and Fred (24). The men of Gull Force had the highest death rate per capita of any Australian prisoners of war, said military historian Tom Lewis, and one of the worst atrocities committed during the war in the Pacific was at the Laha airstrip on Ambon, where the Japanese executed the me...n of B and C companies of the second 21st infantry battalion. 3/4 of the men on Ambon lost their lives to the war machine known as the Japanese Imperial Forces. The three Hutchins brothers suffered immensely during their imprisonment on the island, enduring physical and psychological abuse, lack of food and water, and ultimately their demise. Please share with you friends and family the story of the Hutchins family and the men who lost their lives on Ambon island. A minute silence is not enough Lest We Forget. David Hutchins: http://www.sevensoldiersons.com.au/page_12.html Fred Hutchins: http://www.sevensoldiersons.com.au/page_6.html Eric Hutchins: http://www.sevensoldiersons.com.au/page_8.html
17.01.2022 The Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, established in 1945, is located near the site of the former Bita Paka wireless station south of the city of Rabaul, New Britain, in Papua New Guinea. The cemetery is home to over 420 WW1 and WW2 soldiers. Private VX41293 - Alan Leslie Hutchins, (Darky) 2/22nd Battalion - D Company Served on the Island of New Britain defending the township of Rabaul. It is estimated that against the original garrison of 1500, the Japanese landed 17,000 men... in the immediate vicinity of Rabaul. The Australian's were ordered "every man for himself". Most split into small groups, and while some managed to escape, most were killed or captured. Alan died on the 31st of March 1942, when he was believed to have been shot by a Japanese patrol, while trying to evade captivity. His body was never discovered. Alan was 24 years if age, and left behind 2 children and his wife Edna. A minute silence is not enough, Lest We Forget. Photo: Mark Donaldson VC
16.01.2022 Paul Liversidge, the founder of the Seven Soldiers Sons carrying the photo of the Hutchins family on Anzac Day 2010. A roll he had great pride doing each year. Lest We Forget.
11.01.2022 "I was prepared to serve, I was prepared to be wounded, I was prepared to die. However: When I came home,... I was not prepared to be forgotten!" See more
10.01.2022 This post is dedicated to the memory of Private Nathan Bewes, who tragically lost his life 5 years ago last week on the 9th of July, 2010. Bewes was then taking part in Operation Slipper and was on his second deployment in Afghanistan (Mar Oct 2008, Jan Jul 2010). Nathan sadly lost his life when he had struck an I.E.D (Improvised Explosive Device) whist serving with the 1st Mentoring Task Force.... "Nathan was a loyal friend and always cared for his mates. He just loved to look after people." - The Bewes Family. The price of war is not measured in dollars, but lives. Lest We Forget
09.01.2022 www.sevensoldiersons.com.au On the 5th of December 2007, the spirits of four lost digger brothers, marched back home to Swan Hill in Victoria. There at the Riv...erside Gardens to greet the Hutchins boys, more than 60 years after they waved goodbye, were their frail sisters Myrtle and Mary. No Australian family suffered more than the Hutchins family. Seven brothers fought overseas in World War Two. Four of the brothers, Alan, Eric, David and Fred would never see home again. The memorial erected, would see that their memory was set in stone, and their sacrifice would never be forgotten. See more
09.01.2022 Today marks the 70th Anniversary of the Victory in the Pacific, the day Australia and allied troops defeated the seemingly unstoppable enemy the Japanese Empire. Nearly 1 million Australians one seventh of Australia's 1945 population helped with the war effort, with about 500,000 serving overseas. Included in the serving members were the Hutchins brothers, whom all joined to help the war effort, despite knowing the risks involved. Only 3 of the 7 boys returned home. Have ...all of these brave men and woman in your thoughts on this monumental day. A minute silence is not enough Lest We Forget
07.01.2022 From an Article in the Herald Sun 2007 Band of Brothers Seven went to war only three came home Every birthday as aging friends and family gather, Mary Cobur...n nee Hutchins shares the occasion with a young man in uniform who disappeared from her life but not her dreams more than 60 years ago. As Mary can’t help dream at night of her twin brother Fred, so her sister Myrtle thinks of their other brothers who went off to war all seven of them with only the two girls left to ache over the devastation to their family. Birthdays before World War 2 on the Hutchins’ fruit block at Woorinen North, near Swan Hill, The brothers got out their mouth organs to join dad Henry on accordion for a singalong of favorites the men used to practice in their family band at the old soldiers hall. See more
07.01.2022 The bases of our current society has been formed by those brave enough to defend our country. Lest We Forget
06.01.2022 Today we gather not to celebrate or glorify war but to remember those who have served our country during conflict and crisis. To these brave souls we owe our lives. "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning ... We will remember them." Lest we forget. www.sevensoldiersons.com.au
06.01.2022 "For those who fell there is no hell- Not for the brave who died." -Robert Leckie... Lest We Forget.
03.01.2022 Rest in piece every one of these young diggers. All 41 of them have made the ultimate sacrifice whilst serving in the Afghanistan war, 2001 - 2014. The true cost of war is not measured in dollars or years, but lives. Take a good look at these faces, please have them and their families in you thoughts this ANZAC Day. Lest We Forget.
03.01.2022 Today we gather not to celebrate or glorify war, but rather to remember those who have served our country during conflict and crisis. To these brave souls we owe our lives. "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning ... We will remember them." Lest we forget. www.sevensoldiersons.com.au
01.01.2022 On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month we will remember them. "For those who fell there is no hell- Not for the brave who died."... Lest We Forget.
