Mud and Blood – WWI play by Meg McNena directed by Alice Bishop – Special Performance
Mud and Blood, Meg McNena's compelling 80-minute, six-actor play, is about distinguished Australian general, Harold 'Pompey' Elliott, who led the Essendon Rifles and took most of them to WWI. The […]
The mothers who mourned during the First World War
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaProfessor Joy Damousi presents this lecture. A group who are often forgotten in our commemorations of war, mothers gave their sons in large numbers during the Great War. A group […]
Victorian Collections Training Workshop – Echuca Neighbourhood House
Echuca Neighbourhood House 261 High St, Echuca, AustraliaVictorian Collections is a new free, easy to use, online cataloguing system that is available to collecting organisations throughout Victoria, including RSLs and military heritage groups. Over the coming months […]
An Australian foreign policy? Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19
The question of whether an Australian foreign policy existed during the First World War arises because there was no Department of Foreign Affairs at that time. Through ‚ÄòAustralia in War […]
“Welcome Luncheon” for the port visit of HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Warramunga .
Mercure Melbourne Treasury Gardens Hotel 13 Spring Street, Melbourne, AustraliaThe Victoria Division Navy League of Australia is to hold a ‚ÄúWelcome Luncheon‚Äù on Monday 5th November for the port visit of HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Warramunga . Time:¬† 12 […]
The Other ANZACS
By the end of The Great War, forty five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who […]
Melbourne Arms & Military Fair
Melbourne Showgrounds Epsom Road, Ascot Vale, AustraliaDate: 7 & 8 JulyVenue: Expo Hall - Building 03 Opening Times: Sat 9:00am - 5:00pm Sun, 9:00am - 3:00pm Tickets: Adults $12, Seniors $10. Available at the door ATM […]
Kokoda, Milne Bay, Beachheads: Australians in Papua, July 1942 – January 1943
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaBetween July 1942 and January 1943, Australia fought three costly campaigns against Japanese forces in Papua, New Guinea: at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads. The Kokoda Track, winding through […]
Red Zone Baghdad: My War in Iraq
The Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaColonel Marcus Fielding will provide a unique and fascinating insight into the significant contribution by the Australian soldiers embedded in¬†various Coalition headquarters. In telling his own story, Fielding provides interesting […]
Australia’s Gifted Lost Generation of World War I
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, AustraliaPresented by Dr Ross McMullin Ross McMullin‚Äôs latest book, Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia‚Äôs Lost Generation, contains extended biographies of ten extraordinary but long forgotten men whose loss was […]
War in the Air. Sir Ross Smith, No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps
AIGS Library 1/41 Railway Road, Blackburn, VIC, AustraliaPresentation by Rob SteinbergVisitor donation appreciated - $3. Includes refreshments (tea/coffee/bisuits). Contact Noel Clark nhclark@ozemail.com.au War in the Air. Sir Ross Smith, No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps ‚Äì Rob […]
Between Fact and Fiction, History and Mythology: the Writing of a Gallipoli Story
Monash University Museum of Art 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, AustraliaJoin one of the world's leading Gallipoli scholars Bruce Scates for a discussion of his ‚Äòimagined history‚Äô of the Anzac Landing and beyond. This talk will explore the research underpinning […]