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Upwey Belgrave RSL

Locality: Upwey, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9754 3665

Address: 1 Mast Gully Road 3158 Upwey, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.upweybelgraversl.org.au

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24.01.2022 OHHHH YEHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The time has finally come! And we couldn’t be happier!... The Eastern Blues Association is back music lovers. We will be starting back up again on Wednesday 6th January at our usual starting time of 8pm at the home of the EBA, the Upwey-Belgrave RSL. Same format, featured artist followed by open blues jam. Lots of great raffle prizes and FREE ENTRY. Limited numbers so make sure you get there early. First in best dressed. Proud to announce our first featured artist for the big re-launch will be the fabulous Aaron Pollock, finalist in the 2019 International Blues Challenge. We will keep all our members and followers updated, time to get your instruments out again and start warming up

23.01.2022 This weekends dessert special at Poppies. Gingerbread and baked New York cheesecake filled mille feuille.

23.01.2022 Hello Friends and Members, Chef Grant here. As many are aware Ive been away ill for a few days. To allay and concerns, no it isnt Covid 19. I have cellulitis in my right leg. Google it if you really want to (but you probably dont really want to), sufficed to say, its painful and annoying that I cant be there spreading my... unique charm. What I really would like to say is a huge thank you to my Kitchen Team, Lee, Misty, Rose, and especially Alan. Im proud, and absolutel...y happy with how you have, and continue to operate. Alan, couldnt be prouder of you mate! Well done in leading the team and pushing on. Congratulations and thank you on your efforts!

22.01.2022 They put in so much work to stitching up this phoney, weak and corrupted National Commissioner for Veteran Suicides. To make it look good, and do nothing. And w...hat a shocking waste. I mean it. What a waste. If they'd put in half as much time and effort into helping veterans instead of just looking like they're helping, they'd have already saved lives. lambienetwork.com.au/vetrc

22.01.2022 Some of this weekends specials.

21.01.2022 We whole heartedly agree.

20.01.2022 #OTD Sergeant Tom Currie ‘Diver’ Derrick, VC, DCM On the 24th of November 1943, Sergeant Tom Derrick performed a heroic assault on a heavily defended Japanes...e position at Sattelberg, New Guinea which would see him awarded the Victoria Cross. During the engagement, he scaled a cliff face whilst under heavy fire and silenced seven machinegun posts, before leading his platoon in a charge that destroyed a further three. Diver saw service in North Africa prior to serving in the Pacific. It was during the First Battle of El Alamein that Tom would be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for singlehandedly destroying three machinegun positions and capturing over 100 prisoners, before destroying two German tanks using sticky bombs which had been launched in a counterattack. He then deployed with the 2/48th to the South West Pacific and participated in the Battle of Lae in the Huon Peninsula Campaign. Following the capture of Lae, the 2/48th was involved in the capture of the town of Sattelburg. During the attack, Tom attacked a Japanese post that had been holding up the advance. Night was about to fall and an Australian withdrawal was imminent if the machinegun post could not be silenced. Advancing on his own, Diver personally destroyed the post with grenades, before ordering his section around the right flank. When his section came under fire from another six positions, he clambered ahead, exposing himself to throw grenade after grenade and giving his men the opportunity to secure the ground. He then returned to his section and then proceeded to deal with another three posts in the area. On four separate occasions he dashed forward and threw grenades at a range of six yards until the positions were silenced. In all, Sergeant Derrick silenced posts during the evening. For his bravery that day, he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He would later commission from the ranks before re-joining his battalion to fight at Tarakan. Derrick was killed in action on the 23rd of May 1945 whilst fighting at Tarakan. --------------------------------------------------------------- If you spot an error, please send me a message. Join our group here: https://business.facebook.com/groups/2626189084317964

19.01.2022 #OTD We Remember Private Eric Gould, KIA Today we pause to remember the life and service of 55890 Private Eric George Gould, who was killed in action whilst s...erving in South Vietnam on the 21st of December 1969 at the age of 22. Eric voluntarily enlisted in the Australian Regular Army and was posted to the 1st Australian Reinforcement Battalion on the 3rd of September 1969. He was subsequently posted to 9RAR then 8RAR in early November. Eric was killed in action during a patrol on the 21st of December. Lest we forget. --------------------------------------------------------------- If you spot an error, please send me a message. Join our group here: https://business.facebook.com/groups/2626189084317964

19.01.2022 As veterans, as friends, as family, we are immensely proud of the more than 26,000 Australian Defence Force men and women who served in Afghanistan with great h...onour since 2001. We are proud of all those that have worn the uniform of this great nation. We are humbled by men and women who carried out acts of great bravery, risking their own lives to make Afghanistan a better place. We salute those who put themselves in harms way to build and secure the essential infrastructure, the hospitals, roads, and schools that have allowed millions of Afghan men, women and children to gain education, healthcare and freedom. We especially remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice to make Afghanistan, and the world a better place. We thank all those who served honourably and did their duty. Those people should be and are proud of their service, and justifiably so. The Brereton report is going to be confronting reading. But we must confront it, whilst recognising the nuance and context that is critical to understanding it. It is important to remember that the allegations are not against the more than 26,000 who served in Afghanistan, but instead against a tiny minority amongst them. And that they are allegations at this stage. We believe in the legal principles that underpin the very fabric of Australian society; due process and a fair legal system must be applied. Overwhelmingly, those who served in Afghanistan did so with outstanding courage and distinction on behalf of Australia. We are proud of them, and condemn anything that may compromise or bring dishonour on that which is good, righteous and proper. Importantly, we should be aware that these allegations were reported by soldiers that believed what they witnessed was wrong. These soldiers demonstrated moral courage in reporting this many years ago. We are proud of them also. Australian soldiers standing up for what they believe is right is something we all should be proud of. If it is demonstrated that Army command failed to act on these allegations at the time, then those responsible need to be held accountable. The senior officers must be held accountable if in fact we have command failures. If you need help and support, or just a chat, Hawthorn RSL Sub Branch, along with countless other Sub Branches and support services around the country, are there for you. We are about to enter what may well be a dark time, but we shall do so united and together. Be proud if you served. Do not let the actions of a tiny minority take away from what you achieved in Afghanistan. Reach out if you need help. You all did remarkable things. (Photo credit: AWM)

18.01.2022 Reopening 3rd of June (meals only at this stage). Bookings essential. 9754-3665. Note: Strictly no walk-ins

18.01.2022 For those playing at home... Chefs back on deck! Just in time for lockdown!For those playing at home... Chefs back on deck! Just in time for lockdown!

18.01.2022 A Salute to Sergeant William Kibby, Hero of the Second Battle of El Alamein William Kibby arrived in Australia from Britain with his parents in 1914. He was a... 37-year-old family man when he enlisted in 1940. He embarked with the 2/48th Battalion from Adelaide, bound for the Middle East. Following an accident which resulted in a leg injury, he rejoined his battalion before the battle of El Alamein. Sergeant Kibby was posthumously honored with the Victoria Cross for his actions over several days. Taking over after his platoon commander was killed, he was ordered to attack strong enemy positions. He personally assaulted an enemy post, firing his Thompson sub-machine gun, stopping three of the enemy and capturing 12 others. On other occasions he showed great leadership, directing fire and encouraging his men. He was fatally wounded by machine-gun fire on the night of October 31, 1942. His work was said to have been "an inspiration to all". A quiet and sincere man, Kibby often told friends that all he wanted was to return to his wife and two daughters and his garden in Glenelg, SA. #ww2uncovered #WWII #ww2 #WorldWarII #greatestgeneration #worldwar2 #Hero #ww2history #wwiihistory #worldwartwo #ww2veteran #ww2vet #lestweforget #worldwar2history #WWIIveteran #WWIIVet #remember #ANZAC #ANZACspirit #anzacs #neverforgotten #neverforget #Salute #SaluteToService #australia #victoriacross Original description and photo sourced by: www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10676875

18.01.2022 #vetsweforget #dvadontcareifyoudie #morrisonbsmarketing #dontenlistuntilitsfixed https://www.change.org/.../a-royal-commission-into-the...

17.01.2022 Bluelion Supplies, one of the suppliers of the RSL has stepped up now as one of our supporters of veterans in need with this great donation of much needed household supplies. Huge thank you to Leigh and the team! Youre awesome! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1565623850126149/?ref=share

16.01.2022 Upwey Belgrave RSL, still open for Take Away and Home Delivery.

16.01.2022 It’s one of the most iconic images of the war in the Pacific, but George Silk’s photograph of a blinded Australian soldier being led by a barefoot Papuan on Chr...istmas Day 1942 was captured by chance. "It’s so powerful because it’s got that humanitarian element to it It’s a photograph during wartime, but not of the conflict; it’s of someone helping out someone else who is in need. said Dr Lachlan Grant, a senior historian at the Australian War Memorial. It was mid-afternoon and New Zealand photographer George Silk was walking along the track towards the beachhead battles when he saw the column of wounded men coming towards him. He stepped to the side, quietly took a photograph of Whittington and Oimbari, and the procession moved along. Silk wasn’t going to disturb them, but at the last minute ran back to get the wounded soldier’s name. Learn more about one of the most iconic images of Australia in the Second World War: http://ow.ly/xSBL50CMGoY Photographer: George Silk. 014028

15.01.2022 Our core mission is to make sure our Returned Service Personal and there families have any support they need. We are a traditional RSL. Veterans our RSL is here for you. Just contact us. Our welfare group consists of may Veterans. Anthony Stewart - Leigh Baker - Brian Neale - Ross Burch, just to name a few,even our magnificent chef Grant has experience in Social Work. Just contact us. CHEERS

15.01.2022 Phyllis Latour (99) - the only surviving female Special Operations Executive from WW2. She parachuted into Normandy on May 1, 1944, to operate as part of the S...cientist circuit. Fluent in French, Phyllis posed as a teenage girl whose family had moved to the region to escape the Allied bombing. She rode bicycles around the area, selling soap and chatting with German soldiers. When she obtained any military intelligence, she encoded it for transmitting by knitting codes hidden on a piece of silk that she used to tie up her hair; she would translate them using Morse code equipment. At one point, she was brought in for questioning, but the German authorities did not think to examine her hair tie, and she was released. See more

14.01.2022 This week in 1915, David Stirling, founder of the SAS was born. Stirling was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in recognition of gallant and distinguished... service in the Middle East on 24 February 1942. He was also made an OBE in 1946 and appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1990 New Year Honours for services to the military. See more

14.01.2022 RIP mate. Lest we forget.

13.01.2022 Hey members and friends, please remember to support local independent small businesses. Were all doing it hard. We all need the community. Were all in this together.

13.01.2022 Keep a look out on the community notice boards for our ads like them to give them a boost. There has been a theme for a few weeks now of puns regarding our wonderful General Manager Beth. She has been a great sport in this!

13.01.2022 One of our regular acts - despite being impacted themselves, are giving something back to those less fortunate.

12.01.2022 #OTD Operation SANTA FE On the 26th of October 1967, 2 and 7RAR participated in Op SANTA FE in the May Tao Secret Zone as part of a coordinated US and Austral...ian effort to find the Vietcong’s 5th Division in Vietham. Operation SANTA FE was a gruelling three week long operation through inhospitable country some 23km away from the Task Force Base at Nui Dat and aimed to destroy the 5th Division’s base and reopen and secure a 60km stretch of highway that had been closed by VC activity since 1962. Throughout the Operation, the Australians blocked the zone whilst the Americans conducted a sweep of the area. It became clear that the VC 5th Division was not in the zone and that they had withdrawn to a nearby province. Image: Soldiers of 7RAR being picked up by a 9SQN chopper during Operation SANTA FE --------------------------------------------------------------- If you spot an error, please send me a message. Join our group here: https://business.facebook.com/groups/2626189084317964

11.01.2022 New episode of Collected In 1945, a young Indigenous Australian solider recently released from a German prisoner-of-war camp sat to have his portrait painted by... war artist, Stella Bowen. It was nearly 70 years before his identity was discovered. In Episode 24 of Collected, Louise Maher explores the work of the ‘ghost-hunters’ behind the Memorial’s Indigenous Defence List which acknowledges and honours the service of Indigenous Australian defence personnel. Listen here: https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/podcasts/collected Image: Private, Gowrie House. Artist: Stella Bowen. ART26277

11.01.2022 We will be open for delivery or take away for Lunch and dinner this Sunday, to help all the Dads celebrate Fathers Day! Buy Dad a Growler too, to wash down his disappointment at his new pair of socks and jocks All meals will come with a complementary slice of Birthday Cake too (while it lasts), to celebrate Chefs birthday. Help Chef pretend he has friends!

10.01.2022 #OTD - 1st Australian serving in an Australian unit killed in WWI Today we pause to remember the life and service of Able Seaman John Courtney, who was killed i...n action on the 11th of September 1914 whilst serving with the Australian Naval and Military Expedition Force (ANMFE). He is believed to be the first Australian killed in WWI who was serving with an Australian unit the first Australian killed in WWI, Lieutenant William Chisholm, was serving with an English unit at the time. Courtney was killed at 11am on the 11th of September 1914 when his scouting party was attacked by Germans on the island of New Guinea. He was part of a raiding team which was trying to destroy the German wireless station. As the party rounded a bend in the track, shots rang out and Courtney was struck and killed instantly. Today we pause to remember not only the service of Able Seaman Courtney, but also the other 60,000 Australians who paid the ultimate price in WWI. Lest we forget. --------------------------------------------------------------- If you spot an error, please send me a message. Join our group here: https://business.facebook.com/groups/2626189084317964

10.01.2022 Let's see if this can make it to some of the senior members of the ADF for abit of a wake up call. Worth the read. ___ An excerpt from The Crossroad Mark Donald...son VC........... The 2011 trip was the most successful, at that time, of any SAS squadron, if measured by the number of senior enemy leaders taken out. Without suffering one casualty, we had killed eighty or ninety enemy fighters, among them twenty-three or twenty-four commanders, each running substantial networks. It was a brutal business, but any feelings of compassion towards the dead were suppressed by our knowledge of what they’d been doing and would have kept doing if left unchecked. We’d set them back by months, if not longer. The next squadron would tell us there was nothing going on in that western area of Uruzgan for their entire trip. But there are always swings and roundabouts when you’re fighting anything less than a total war. The Q&As and other interrogatories about how we’d operated were putting a dent in morale. Some time after that big fight, I was training with Devil. A senior officer was asking me why, that day, so many people had had to die. I had a simple answer. ‘Sir, they were trying to kill us.’ I explained in detail about being in that house, at close quarters, with those guns firing at us out of rooms. I explained what Devil had done, and how I’d shot the man who was fighting with Devil while trying to get his gun aimed at me. The officer said, ‘Did you try to detain him?’ I was dumbfounded. The question showed a complete lack of understanding. We were in a war situation, not a policing situation. There’s often a lot of exaggerated talk about ‘Kill or be killed’, but this time, that was what it was. If I, or others that day, had not killed, then we wouldn’t be here today and my children would not have a dad.

08.01.2022 A Salute to Colonel Ruby Bradley. The Angel in Fatigues Colonel Ruby Bradley entered the United States Army Nurse Corps as a surgical nurse in 1934. She was s...erving at Camp John Hay in the Philippines when she was captured by the Japanese army three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese aircraft struck Camp John Hay. After the attack, the survivors attempted to flee to Manila through the mountains. Bradley and another Army nurse, Lt. Beatrice Chambers, walked more than 18 miles to a logging camp in Lasud, where they cared for civilian refugees, many of them women and children. On December 28, Bradley and Chambers were captured and became the first Army nurse POWs of the war. For the first few months of her captivity, Bradley was held in an internment camp at Camp John Hay. A group of more than 500 men, women and children was crowded into one building. After about six weeks, the internees received Japanese permission to establish a small camp hospital. It soon became an obstetrical ward and nursery, where Bradley and Chambers helped to deliver 13 babies. In September, Bradley was transferred to the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, where she joined other U.S. Army and Navy nurse captives. In 1943, she was moved to the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila. It was there that she and several other imprisoned nurses earned the title "Angels in Fatigues" from fellow captives. Suffering from starvation, she used the room in her uniform for smuggling surgical equipment into the prisoner-of-war camp. At the camp she assisted in 230 operations and helped to deliver 13 children. After the war Ruby continued a military career serving in the Korean War. She passed in 2002 at the age of 94. Lest We Forget. #ww2uncovered #WWIIVet #nurse #WVProud #GreatestGeneration #usarmy #usarmynurse #worldwar2history #pow #WorldWarII #ww2vet #ww2veteran #Salute #ww2 #lestweforget #worldwar2 #WWII #armynurse #heroines #armyofficer #armyveteran #ww2history #westvirginia #KoreanWar #WV #wvnurse #wvhistory Original description and photo sourced by workingnurse.com and US Army Historical Archive

07.01.2022 c. June 1966. A member of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) sits silhouetted in the doorway of a Buddhist temple 20 kilometres north west of B...ien Hoa. Children can be seen nearby, one of whom appears to be waving to the serviceman. (Photographer: Timothy John Page. P04959.057) #PhotoOfTheWeek

06.01.2022 Slight change to our trading hours, the kitchen will be closed from 8pm. This is to make sure that our drivers are not out and about too late after curfew... which is a sentence I would not have thought Id have said to or about anyone but my kids... Keep safe, keep well!

05.01.2022 This year marks the 80th anniversary of the battle of Bardia, which took place from 3 to 5 January 1941. It was the first battle fought by Australian troops in ...the Second World War. Read article: https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/battle-of-bardia Image: Members of the 19th Australian Infantry Brigade after the Battle of Bardia. 041691

04.01.2022 Hey Folk, give a little love, get a little love! But seriously everyone, many out there are hurting in a range of ways, emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially. If you can help in a little way, itll go a long way to making someone feel a bit better. A small act of kindness can have an immense impact! Dont forget the free bread either! Saturday and Tuesday Mornings.

03.01.2022 Writing on 7th September 1915 aboard the troopship Ivernia at Lemnos, Pte. Edwin Louis Roesler, 27th Battalion Australian Infantry, penned what he thought mig...ht be his last letter. You see I am on the way now to the firing line. We embarked on September 3 and reached here today, having to steer a zigzag course through the Aegean to avoid enemy submarines, a few of which are still roaming round. On the 9th I celebrate my twentieth birthday, and I expect to spend it "where the whips are cracking," and hope the Turks will not give me a piece or two of lead as a birthday present. I hope instead that my rifle and bayonet will account for as many Turks as I have spent years, with one or two thrown in. Well, although so near to it I have no fear, fully believing I am doing my duty to God, King, and country. I will leave myself in the Makers hands, and now as this may be my last (although I hope not) letter, I will say good-bye, and many thanks for the lovely send-off you and the people of Springton gave me. [1] [1] Daily Herald (Adelaide, South Australia), 5th November 1915. Image: IWM Q 13483.

03.01.2022 This is Able Seawoman Grace Whittle of the Women's Royal Naval Service, taken in May 1941 a few days before the German battleship Bismarck sunk the Royal Navy's... flagship HMS Hood with the loss of 3,000 sailors. A few days later she intercepted a radio message from a German U Boat Commander which after being decoded enabled the Admiralty to locate Bismarck and sink her. She received a commendation from Winston Churchill and was later posted to Bletchley Park for the rest of the war. With thanks to Nicholas Ford for the story and photograph, Grace was his mother. #WRNS #Navy #Wrens #WWII #womenatwar #Bletchley #codebreaker

03.01.2022 Hey, also, if you liked the ginger cookies we were giving out recently, we now have them for sale, 5 for $2. In further news, we are selling Growlers! Fill em up with our tap beers! Perfect for an iso night at home...

03.01.2022 A brave ally Simone Segouin, mostly known by her codename, Nicole Minet, was only 18 years old when the Germans invaded. Her first act of rebellion was to stea...l a bicycle from a German military administration, and to slice the tires of all the other bikes and motorcycles so they could not pursue her. She found a pocket of the Resistance and joined the fight, using the stolen bike to deliver messages between Resistance groups. She was an extremely fast learner and quickly became an expert at tactics and explosives. She led teams of Resistance fighters to capture German troops, set traps, and sabotage German equipment. As the war dragged on, her deeds escalated to derailing German trains, blocking roads, blowing up bridges and helping to create a German-free path to help the Allied forces retake France from the inside. She was never caught. Segouin was present at the liberation of Chartres on August 23, 1944, and then the liberation of Paris two days later. She was promoted to lieutenant and awarded several medals, including the Croix de Guerre. After the war, she studied medicine and became a pediatric nurse. She is still going strong, and this October (2021) she will turn 96. Thank you for your service See more

02.01.2022 At the Eleventh hour On the Eleventh day Of the Eleventh month WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Lest we forget

02.01.2022 Remember during November. As we honour those who fell for our Nation this month, let us not forget those veterans who are struggling with post-service lives. Lest we forget.

01.01.2022 Today we farewell a dearly loved & greatly respected member and friend - John Van Hoorn. You have left us, but your legacies remain. Lest We Forget