Peninsula Veterans' HUB in Frankston, Victoria | Community organisation

Peninsula Veterans' HUB

Locality: Frankston, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9783 4151

Address: 18-28 Skye Rd 3199 Frankston, VIC, Australia

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

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18.01.2022 Thank You Thank You Thank You and Thank You We have just made it, 2,200 likes, we are so pleased to get to that amount, and we could not have made it without your support Once again thank you all

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12.01.2022 William ROGERSON William Rogerson was born on 19 January 1892 in Fitzroy North, Victoria. His parents were William and Ann Jane (née Bell) Rogerson. He attended Scotch College Melbourne, Victoria, from 1906 to 1909. William was a medical practitioner when he enlisted in April 1915 at Melbourne, Victoria. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment with the rank of Captain. William died on 27 August 1918 at Albert, France. ...He was 26 years of age. Service record William completed a medical course at the University of Melbourne in 1915. He and his brother Edward, as well as fellow Old Scotch Collegian Johnston Hughston, were among a group of 100 Australian doctors, all single and under 40, sent to England in 1915 to help support the New Armies being raised under direction of Lord Kitchener, Secretary for War. All of these Australian doctors, known as ‘Kitchener’s Hundred’, were volunteers for one year’s service with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), and over half of them were new graduates. William was in this latter category. One historian questions whether newly graduated doctors were well suited to the difficulties of conducting sick parades and dealing with the wounded in army units. William was commissioned as a Lieutenant (most medical officers with battalions were captains), and posted to the British 17th Division in France. In April 1916, with his year’s contracted service concluded, he chose to continue in the RAMC. He was promoted to Captain that month. He was transferred in 1917 to the 38th Division, and became Regimental Medical Officer of the 17th Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was Mentioned in Despatches in April 1917. He was transferred to the 60th Division, with which he travelled to Salonica in Greece and then to Palestine. The division fought in the Third Battle of Gaza and participated in the capture of Beersheba and Jerusalem. When in early 1918 the division’s battalions were withdrawn to France, William went with them. He was transferred to the 8th Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was with them when a shellburst killed him near Albert. No epitaph appears to have been inscribed on William’s headstone. William Rogerson is buried in the Becourt Military Cemetery (Grave ii. A. 23), Becordel-Becourt. See more

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08.01.2022 Did you know... that the first Australian Flying Corps (AFC) crews to take part in World War I were part of the Mesopotamian Half Flight? The Mesopotamian Half Flight was formed on 1 April 1915 under the command of Captain Henry Petre. The Half Flight sailed for India then Basra in what was then Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), where it was equipped with aircraft. The unit flew mainly reconnaissance missions. The flight was officially disbanded in October 1916, but its ground crew and some pilots were captured when Kut fell to Ottoman forces. Nine pilots flew with the unit, with two posted missing presumed dead, and six captured. Lest we forget. Lieutenant Harold William Treloar, who was captured and one of only four survivors of a 1,100 km death march into Turkey. He was the brother of John Treloar, the first director of the AWM

07.01.2022 Did you know... that Australian troops were based on Cyprus during World War II? After the disastrous Greek campaign, Allied commanders worried the Germans might use Crete as a springboard for further operations in the Eastern Mediterranean, possibly for an airborne attack on Cyprus or a seaborne invasion of Egypt, in support of Axis forces operating from Libya. So the 7th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment, equipped with Vickers Light Tanks disembarked there on 5 May, rema...ining there until August. From 24 May 1941 to 3 June 1941, a detachment of No. 3 Squadron RAAF was relocated there to provide fighter cover. However, after heavy German paratroops losses during the invasion of Crete, German plans to launch a similar attack against Cyprus were abandoned. The launching of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 made it apparent that the occupation of Crete was a defensive measure to secure the Axis southern flank. Photo Vickers Lights tanks of the 7th Division Cavalry Regiment on Cyprus: See more

03.01.2022 A duck walks into a convenience store and asks the worker: Do you have any grapes? The worker says no, and the duck leaves. The next day, the duck returns and asks: Do you have any grapes? The worker again says no, and the duck leaves. The day after that, the duck walks into the store again and asks: Do you have any grapes? The worker screams at the duck: You’ve come in here the past three days and asked if we have any grapes. I told you no every time as we don’t have ...any grapes! I swear if you come back in here again and ask for grapes, I’ll nail your webbed feet to the floor! The duck leaves. He returns the next day. This time he asks: Do you have any nails? The worker replies: No. And the duck says: Good! Got any grapes? See more