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. 1 l ('r <J POSTAGE SURFACE PAID MAIL AUSTRALIA AUTUMN, 1993 Registered by Australia Post Publication No. WAS 1158 Lest We Forget Craterland- Ypres, 1911 By Fred Leist AWM 41 5 Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs . Ccln We help you? · You·could be eligible for benefits if • you are a veteran • a widow, wife or dependent child of a veteran, or • your spouse, parent or guardian is, or was, a veteran, or member of the Australian Defence or Peacekeeping forces. • you have completed qualifying peacetime service in the case of Defence Service Homes benefits. Veterans' benefits include: • Pensions and allowances • Health-care benefits • Counselling services • Pharmaceutical benefits • Defence Service Homes - housing loan subsidy - homeowners' insurance • Funeral benefits • Commemoration ' . FIND OUT WHETHER YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFIT.S BY CONT A.CTING THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS ON . 425 8222 .. .. ''-, Country Callers Free Line: 008 113304 · Remember .... "We're only a 'phone call away" Veterans' Affairs Cares Contents Page LISTENINe POST ' Publishers Pre';ldcnt's M essage 3 . ' Returned & Services League W.A. Branch (Incorporated) Anuc House G.P.O. Box C128, Pr1111 1: Life 50 Plus 7 28 St Georges Terrace Perth. W .A. 6001 Perth, W.A. 6000 • Tel: 325 9799 AssL'mbly Are,ls AnzJc Dlly 1993 9 Operation · R i Pl<•LJ 15 South West PJcif1c A r cJ (Cone!.) 27 ... , El AIJme111 - 50111 Ann1versJr y 31 A Lonely Walk on Gall1polli 45 Editorial Ou1nn s Jnd Courtney's 53 Editor/Chairman: Mrs Pat Balfe Defcnc1 ls~ues 57 Deputy: Mr John S~rridge Veterans· Affairs 58 Committee: Mrs B. Clintoo, Mrs J. Dowson, Reun1ons 59 Messrs P. Hester, T. Uoyd, R. Mercer, P. White (Co-opted) Messrs E. Hinchliffe, L.J. Owens Sub Brdncll News 61 Book Rev1cws 66 Sub-Editor Wome11 s Auxiliary 71 Mrs Pat Elphinstone Lost Trails 71 •• Advertisers Westralian Publishers, • • 263 Stirling Highway, Claremont, W.A. 6010 Tel: 383 4966 . 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ReprodiiCiion of anides (or ex1pal) conl&ioed in Lislmina Post is welcomed p<'Ovided !be 1011roe is acknowledged ~lsten~ Po8t- Autumn 1113-hge1 ···RSL TRAVE-L Join your fellow RSL members 01;1 these fantastic P&O Fairstar Cruises CORAL SEA:CIRCL~ CRUISE DAY DATE ITINERARY DAY DATE ITINERARY 1 THU 02 SEP Departs Perth at 4.00pm arrive 1 FRI 12 NOV Departs Perth at 4.00pm arrive in Sydney at 10.05pm in Sydney at 10.05pm Accommodation: Ollms Hotel Accommodation: Ollms Hotel 2 FRI 03 SEP MornJng sightseeing tour of 2 SAT 13 NOV Morning sightseeing tour of Sydney with transfer to wharf to Sydney with transfer to wharf to embark the Falrstar embark the Falrstar Dep-art Sydney 5.00pm Depart Sydney 5.00pm 3 SAT 04 SEP At sea 3 SUN 14 NOV At sea 4 SUN 05 SEP At sea 4 MON 15 NOV At sea 5 MON06 SEP Boulari-Havannah Passage - cruising 5 . TUE 16 NOV . Milford Sound, New Zealand 6 TUE 07 SEP Vila. Vanuatu 9.00am to 6.00pm cruising 7 WED 08 SEP Champagne Bay 8.00am to 6pm · 6 WED 17 NOV At sea 8 THU 09 SEP At sea 7 THU 18 NOV Dunedin, New Zealand 8.00am to 9 FRI 10 SEP Honiara. Solomon Islands 5.00pm 7.00am to 5.00pm ·, 8 FRI 19 NOV Chrlstchurch, New Zealand W SAT 11 SEP At sea 8.00am to 5.00pm 11 SUN 12 SEP Samarai Is., Papua New Guinea 9 SAT 20 . NOV Welllngton, New Zealand 8.00am 7.00am to 4.00pm to 6.00pm visit the local RSL Club 12 MON 13 SEP Pt. Moresby, Papua New Guinea ami meet members . 9.00am to 4.00pm 10 SUN 21 NOV At-"sea 13 TUE 14 SEP At sea 11 MON 22 NOV Auckland, New Zealand 8.00 am 14 WED 15 SEP Townsville 7.00am to 8.00pm to 8.oopm 15 THU 16 SEP Whltsunday islands 7.00am to 12 TUE 23 NOV Bay oflslands, New Zealand 6.00pm 8.00am to 5.00pm 16 FRI 17 SEP At sea 12 WED24 NOV At .sea 17 SAT 18 SEP At sea 14. THU 25 NOV At sea 18 SUN 19 SEP Arrive Sydney 7.00am depart 15 FRI 26 NOV At sea Sydney at 11.50pm arrive Perth 16 SAT 27 NOV Arrive Sydney at 7.00am depart at 2.40pm Sydney 11.50am arrive Perth 2.40pm Save 1 00/o on selected cabins Whatever your idea of a true hoUday may be - you will have a great RSL travel represented by time on a Falrstar Cruise. There's resting. relulng and the meeting TRAVEL of new &lends as well as the ez:plorlng and cUsc:overlng of some of the WEST- . > most J>eautifullslands in th ~ world. Combb)e this with fiDe food and SGIO Building, endless entertainment and you can be uiured of a wonderful hoUday... 170 St Goerge's Tee., Per.th you will even be escorted from P~rth by a Jiomlnated omclai RSL escort - WA -6000 nothing has been forgotten! ' Phone 321 4757 P-oe 2 - Listening Post,..... Autumn 1913 President's Me.ssage?. DOUYWOOD·DOSPITAL The.' federal governnie!'1t i$ ·exploring private sect9r qptions for Hollywood Repatriation General Hospital in order to improve healt~-ca t e arrangem~nts to meet th~ changing needs of veterans and war widows in WA. · The timetable for the tender process, together with continuing consultations with the H~alth Department of WA, the ex-service community and staff associations, was announced on.8 February by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Mr Ben. Humphreys. He said his department would immediately begin advertising for preliminary STATE PRESIDENT proposals from p~rties interested in providing J.P. Hall, AM, BEM, JP. services at the 332-bed acute-care teaching hospital. SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT L.C. Keynes, BA. A succes::,iul outcome will see the introduction of the Repatriation Private Patient Scheme (RPPS). JUNIOR VICE PRESIDENT that will benefit 30,000 veterans and war widows P.C. Firkins, OAM. · entitled to repatriation health care in WA. STATE SECRETARY O.H. Gibbs, AFC, JP . COMMITTEE WAR VE.rERAN'S' DOME J.R. Babbage, Mrs H.P. Balfe, BEe, ~rs B. Clinton, JIAIO)URAJI . A.A. Oacre, OBE, MBE, Mrs O.J. Oowson, MBE, M.C. Hall, JP, P.W. Hester, J.L. Holman, The accommodation for 55 veterans i n hostel care Mrs A Keynes Or A.J. King, BSc; MBBS, FCCP, at the Mandurah complex is nearing completion, F.RACMA,' FACRM, Z. Kwiecinski, ~Ec, and it is anticipated that the handover will take place T.K. Lloyd, JP, R.O. Mercer, AM, RFO, EO, . shortly. · . --: K.J. Morrison, K. Murphy, The Board of the War Veterans' Home advise that, W.J. Surridge, F. Verqi, P. White, DCM. upon.completion the project will have a deficit of REGIONAL COUNTRY VICE PRESIDENTS $400,000. However, wi'h your support and that of Messrs R. Barber (Coolgardie Sub-Braneh} the sub-branches.• we hope to. be able to raise this P.J. Blenkinsopp (Port Hedland ~ub a Branch) amount during '1'993: Your support is greatly C. Mills (Bunbury Sub-Branch) .appreciated. Dqnations are to be sent to War S.G. Robinson (Merredin Sub-Branch) Veterans' Home, 51 Alexander Drive, Mount Lawley A.J. Spendlove (Geraldton Sub-Branch) 6050; all dooati_ons over $2 are tax deductible. R.E. Stanley (Aibany Sub-Branch) TRUSTEES . Messrs K. Broadhurst, FRAIA. ARABA, BACK o!V nm JOB A~. P. Pearson, CMG, OBE, JP, R.N. Stone, JP. I am pleased that Len Key.nes, our senior Vice LISTENING POST COMM~T.J:'EE President, is now fully recovered and back working Mrs H.P. Balfe, Mrs B. Chnton, with.me once again. I greatly appreciate-as I know Mrs D.J. oowson, Mr P.W. Hester, all members .do- his support and assistance. With Mr T.K. Lloyd, . younger leaders. like Len ·(a Vietnam veteran}; the Messrs R. Mercer, W.J. Surridge, P.. White, · ~eague can look forward to the .future ' with CO-OPTED·MEMBERS ·ebnfidence. · Messrs E. Hinchliffe, L.J. Owens J.P.' HALL.. ........,g Po.t-Autumn .1113-..... 3 ... Now ... e Life Insurance • RSL Members·Under the Age ~f 50 Have Been Waiting For. 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