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Issue 591 | December 2018 ISSN 2206-7345 (print) ISSN 2206-7353 (online) Highgate Highlights YOUR 2018-19 COMMITTEE President Official newsletter of Highgate RSL Sub-Branch Geoff Hourn | 0414 063 707 [email protected] Returned & Services League of Australia (WA) www.highgate-rsl.org.au Senior Vice President John Cleary | 0417 955 864 From our President [email protected] he Centenary of Armistice is over and the centennial Junior Vice President & Editor commemorations fall silent. Continuing, however, is the legacy of Roger Buddrige | 0408 900 126 [email protected] T that wonderful, strong, generation that helped save the world and forge a new country. Treasurer Bill Munro | 0411 750 775 Befittingly, as an RSL Sub-Branch that was begun by World War I [email protected] veterans just a few years after the Armistice, Highgate continues to Secretary commemorate that legacy day by day in Kings Park, through the Sub Greg Wilson Wardens of the State War Memorial and the Honour Avenue Group. 0412 095 201 | 9448 8213 In addition to commemorating that World War I legacy in this centenary Box 65 Hillarys 6923 [email protected] year, Highgate has also helped to propagate that legacy by successfully completing the Remembrance Walk in Kings Park. Warden & Immediate Past President Steve Chamarette We have also provided public access to a Virtual Memorial for Western 0409 257 469 | 9242 1865 Australia. [email protected] Both projects help immortalise the legacy of our forebears, for families Pensions & Veterans Affairs and students and the six million annual visitors to Kings Park. Our aim David MacLean | 0418 917 982 [email protected] was to perpetuate and not only commemorate. (continued on page 2) Deputy Warden State War Memorial Geoff Simpson Our Christmas Luncheon is on Monday 17 December 0408 925 432 | 6380 1014 at the Karrakatta Club in Sherwood Court Perth [email protected] The Karrakatta Club is located at the bottom of Sherwood Court, on the corner of The Membership Officer Esplanade in the Perth CBD. (Sherwood Court runs south off St Georges Terrace, Howard Montagu directly opposite London Court) . 0417 956 621 [email protected] Monthly luncheon bookings Our monthly luncheon meetings are $40 per person (plus $5 per raffle ticket if wanted) Hospitals & Welfare Bruce Taylor and held at the Karrakatta Club on the third Monday of each month. For catering 0408 955 219 reasons, your booking must be made no later than 1700 on the Wednesday prior to the [email protected] luncheon, please. Honour Avenue Representative Three ways to book - Choose the best for you & Poppy Day Organiser 1. Via the Highgate RSL website at http://highgate-rsl.org.au Click on Next Luncheon . Mike Harness Then click on Luncheon Booking or Apology and you ʼll be transferred to our new 0419 091 708 booking sheet page. Electronic funds transfer details are also on the page. [email protected] Or... Web Manager Ian Petkoff 2. Go direct to the luncheon booking sheet by pasting this link into your browser: 0490 242 676 https://goo.gl/forms/vNHgoyZm1AnWA4No2 [email protected] Via the electronic booking sheet, you can add guests, food intolerances, purchase General Committee raffle tickets, check friends; and also register a non-attendance apology. (If you book Richard Adams your luncheon via our website or direct, you will receive an email a couple of minutes 0411 737 723 | 9325 6387 later confirming your booking. [email protected] Or... Margot Harness 9349 2847 3. Via Committee Member: If you do not have internet access, please call Margot [email protected] Harness on 9349 2847, or any Committee member, and they will help you book in. Leon Griffiths Important dates & events | please diarise now 0439 033 399 | 9332 9039 [email protected] ° 1100 | Mon 17 Dec | Committee Meeting - Karrakatta Club ° 1130 for 1215 | Mon 17 Dec | Christmas Luncheon Allan Downs ° 0427 932 166 1100 | Mon 21 Jan | Committee Meeting - Karrakatta Club [email protected] ° 1130 for 1215 | Mon 21 Jan | Monthly Luncheon Front Desk Peter Garside | 0413 441 855 Last Post | Lest We Forget [email protected] We remember with deep sadness and affection our departed Members and convey sincere condolences and sympathy to their family and friends Owen Page | 0431 956 261 [email protected] Highgate Highlights | December 2018 | Page 2 Poppy Day benefits From our President (continued from page 1) RSL Welfare Funds I think it is fair to say Remembrance Day Service at the On Friday 09 Nov, Highgate that our endeavours State War Memorial and Poppy Day members again sold poppies in Perth have been more than Appeal. for the RSL welfare funds and we are fruitful. grateful to Mike Harness and all who We turn now to 2019. In doing so, helped. The public generously It was appropriate the Highgate can be satisfied our 2018 donated with a remarkable collection Remembrance Walk Centenary of Armistice endeavours total of $12,548 - up $1,400 from last and the Virtual Memorial were meaningful and lasting. year. The money will be used were launched by the I wish you all a merry Christmas and exclusively for the RSLWA Aged Governor of WA at our Geoff Hourn a happy new year. Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen’s Relief Centenary of Armistice Trust Fund, and the Highgate RSL Luncheon on Remembrance Day. Best wishes - Geoff Hourn Sub-Branch Veterans’ Welfare Fund. In his Centenary of Armistice Address, the Governor recounted Our January guest speaker | Terri-Anne Simmonds the national cost and huge personal sacrifice of almost every family in Australian War Memorial - Places of Pride register Australia at the time. A great follow-on to Highgate Places of Thank you to Steve Chamarette who RSL’s accomplishment in Pride reminds directed the Remembrance Walk establishing the Remembrance Australians that, Project. Walk and the Virtual Memorial irrespective of during 2018, is the Australian War distance, the Thank you also to Ian Petkoff, who Memorial’s Places of Pride stories told at the directed the Virtual Memorial Project. Project. Australian War And thank you to the others who And as guest speaker at our monthly Memorial are contributed many hours of luncheon meeting on 21 January, those of our concentrated effort to assist them Project Manager Terri-Anne communities throughout the year. Simmonds from the AWM will tell us across the length and breadth of the country. Our thanks also go to Leon Griffiths all about the project, which aims to and the Highgate members who gather information on the 6,000+ war Memorial Director Dr Brendan organised and set up the Centenary memorials around Australia. Nelson said it was part of the of Armistice Luncheon. The Places of Pride website is the AWM’s job to create a record of these memorials. It was a great success. National Register of War Memorials Contributing to that success was the that will record the locations and “Our responsibility now is to build a Australian Army Cadet Unit’s 51 images of every publicly accessible national archive, a photographic Swan Regiment Drums and Pipes memorial in Australia, from repository, of all of those places that under the leadership of Music cenotaphs, honour boards, and were conceived and built with love Director, Captain Peter Jones church shrines to memorial halls, and memory at the end of the First pools, bowling clubs and tree-lined World War. OAM. They were fabulous. remembrance ways. “Through Places of Pride we aim to Somewhat subsumed by the centenary, this year, were our efforts Since the Boer War, war memorials connect all Australians, united by selling poppies for Remembrance have been erected across Australia pride and loss, with each of these Day. by local communities, families, and memorials from the Boer War friends to honour those who served through to Afghanistan,” said Dr Thank you to Mike Harness for yet and those who died, allowing our Nelson. again organising and coordinating nation to remember lives lost. “We invite all Australians to take our poppy sales. To continue that community pride part in this initiative and contribute We are entirely dependent for our today, the AWM has developed this images of their community’s Welfare funds on poppy sales and important online initiative, which memorials. This is a challenge to Mike’s efforts are very much encourages users to add images, every RSL, local government appreciated. videos, and information relating to authority, schools, community Thank you also to those who sold these memorials, to be shared in groups and local MPs to get a the poppies. It was a great effort. perpetuity. photograph taken and upload it. Warm congratulations are also due This newsletter is printed “The more the better. We hope to to the RSLWA staff for their hard have a large digital wall display in work in putting together the as a service to the the Australian War Memorial Centenary of Armistice Veterans Community where visitors will be able to view commemoration. and interact with memorials from by the Office of the the communities that make up the The 62,000 poppies and the coordi- Federal Member for Perth fabric of this nation – all connected nated buglers in the CBD were by memory, grief, and love.” superb, as was the very well-run Highgate Highlights | December 2018 | Page 3 Centenary of Armistice | 11 November 2018 Speech from Wreath Laying Ceremony | State War Memorial By Hon Kim Beazley AC | Governor of Western Australia acknowledge the traditional stronger than - an additional 300,000 in today’s owners of the land on which we 200-300.