SERVICEMEN'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL NASHONASHO 51 72 NAVY • ARMY • AIRFORCE NEWSNEWS NATIONAL SERVICEMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF AUST (QLD) INC. Issue No 141 August 2020 Feature Stories: President/Treasurer Reports Page 1 2020 Order of Australia Pages 2-6 Last Post Page 8 Directory Front Cover State Management State Management Committee Patron: Committee 2020/21 Councillor Angela Owen Front Row: Tony Stevenson President: Alex Garlin 07 3847 9690 OAM; Angela Owen; Alex 0417 621 411 Vice-President: Garlin; Len Matthews. Tony Stevenson OAM 07 3397 7512 Secretary: Back Row: Tom Andrews Len Matthews 07 3205 8674 OAM; Len Ramsay; John Asst Secretary: Ingrid Lundgren 07 3324 1277 Hardy OAM; Gordon Treasurer: Tunstall; Neal Freier; Neal Freier 07 3348 2080 0427 000 408 Pat Dunne. Asst Treasurer: Pat Dunne 07 3396 8723 Inserts: Ingrid Lundgren Wacol Advisor: and Vince Crowley. Barry Loose 07 3408 6103 Administration Manager: Tony Stevenson OAM 07 3397 7512 Official NSAA Welfare Officer: Merchandise Vacant OFFICIAL NSAA MERCHANDISE Chaplain: Beret $32 Thomas (Tom) Andrews OAM 07 3396 8033 Beret Badge – Pewter $5.50 04 0845 7931 Beret Badge – Silver Six Sided Logo $20 Book – 20 Year History of the NSAA 1987 to 2007 $25 Minute Secretary: Caps Embroidered with Nasho Logo $17.50 Coffee Cup with Nasho Logo $ 9.00 Gordon Tunstall 0412 886 042 Flag – Association Logo White Full Size (6'x3') $220 Flag – Association Logo White small size (hand waver) $12.50 Lapel Badge – Association Blue $5.50 Editor Nasho News: Lapel Badge – Navy, Army or Air Force $6.50 Vince Crowley 07 4779 9460 Lapel Badge – Tri-service $6.50 0428 193 076 Medals Full Size Unmounted Swing Court ADM $18 $22.50 $27.50 Editor Branch News ANSM $18 $22.50 $27.50 John Hardy OAM 07 4095 4154 Duo ADM+ANSM $36 $45 $55 0408 939 910 Miniatures Unmounted Swing Court ADM $12 $16.50 $21 Membership Officer: ANSM $12 $16.50 $21 Duo $24 $40 $45 Ingrid Lundgren 07 3324 1277 Medal Ribbon Bar with ADM+ANSM medal ribbons $15 Miniature Metal Ribbon Bar ADM+ANSM $10 State Office Necktie with Nasho Logo $33.50 Eric Sivell Park, 171 Boundary Road, Camp Hill, Nasho Pocket Patch – Bullion Thread – Red $36 Brisbane 4152 Nasho Pocket Patch – Queensland Red Logo $10 Nasho Port $13.50 Office Hours: 9.00am to 1.00pm Nasho Key Rings Acrylic $4.50 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Nasho Wattle Key Rings $10 Phone (07) 3324 1277 Number plate covers ‘I Am a Nasho’ $22 Shirts – Chambray short or long sleeves S M L XL XXL Email: [email protected] (add $3 for XXXL size) $36 Mail to: National Servicemen's Association Shirts – Polo White or Maroon S M L XL XXL (add $3 for XXXL size) $31 P.O. Box 7014 Holland Park East Qld 4121 Stubby Holder with Nasho Logo $5.50 Web: www.nashoqld.org.au Video – 50 year anniversary celebrations $5 Nominal Roll/Webmaster Video – Last March Out at Wacol $5 Wall Plaque – 6 sided Nasho Logo on Timber $42.50 Alex Garlin 07 3847 9690 [email protected] Pay by Credit Card – add $1.00 National Website: www.nashoaustralia.org.au Postage not included IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER The material contained in this publication is in the nature of general comment only, and neither purports, nor is intended, to be advice on any particular matter. Readers should not act or rely upon any matter or information contained or implied by this publication, without taking appropriate professional advice which relates specifically to their particular circumstances. The publishers and authors expressly disclaim all and any liability to any person whether an Association member or not, who acts or fails to act as a consequence of reliance upon the whole or part of the publication. Views expressed in any Editorial may not necessarily be those views held by the Management Committee. STATE PRESIDENT’S REPORT (Alex Garlin) Oops, I have spoken too soon. The gates are closed again. We are making arrangements for our meetings to be held on the 12th of September 2020. However, we may have to wait until next year. As of the 1st of August, we have six weeks until our AGM meeting and we may still have to postpone them. This is not what I had intended to do as these meetings set out our arrangements for the year. We will confirm whether the meeting is on or off as soon as we can. DO NOT BUY AIRFARES. If we do have to postpone then we may have to consider holding the AGM on line through Zoom or similar. The Association has had an invitation from the State Library for five Nashos to speak about their life in the service. Nashos from Navy, Army, Air Force, Vietnam and Officer Training at Scheyville were interviewed. These interviews will be able to be viewed at the State Library on a digital wall frame in the near future, We are still working on the Nasho Nominal Roll. We are in the process of trying to get the Southern States to add their names to the roll. Have you checked if your name is on the roll and if your details are correct? I wish all our members good health and please adhere to the COVID-19 recommendations TREASURER’S REPORT (Neal Freier) COVID-19 has had an impact on everyone including the Nashos. Our AGM was to be held in March and had to be postponed. We have pencilled in 12th September for our AGM but that is not certain at this stage. If the second wave of COVID-19 hits Queensland, then the AGM will have to be postponed again. Once we know we will advise our members. Each year after our AGM I furnish an Annual Information Statement to the ACNC. I have been in contact with the ACNC who understand the situation because of the virus. They are content for me to just complete their Annual Information Statement which I will do. Even though it is not necessary I will also attach a copy of our fully audited financial report. On the subject of finance, I am happy with everything. We are in the process of applying for several grants all of which are necessary to keep us in a sound position. Our patron, Angela Owen, is always on the ball and has identified two recent grants we can apply for. Angela also acquired a near new desk computer which she gave to us. Angela also gave us a carton of hand sanitizer which will be distributed to branches. Well this would be the shortest report I have furnished. Outside of COVID-19 there is no bad news. I hope you all keep in good health and are happy. EDITORIAL (Vince Crowley Editor) The issue this month is ‘typos’ – there are everywhere. There would not be a newspaper in Australia that doesn’t have typos. Don’t we love telling another person about their typos. Recently, at a funeral, the last line of the 23rd Psalm read ‘swell in the house of the Lord’ instead of ‘dwell’. I get pulled up for spelling Whiskey with an ‘e’, but only by Scots. We are not all perfect, so let us get on and enjoy life. The other issue is ‘Texts to the Editors’. In our paper, we have half a page on five days and a whole page on Tuesday. We have about ten regulars who spar with each other, the armchair football coaches, and of course the political combatants. They are a sorry lot and at end of the day achieve very little. PAGE 1 2020 MEDAL OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIA (O.A.M.) AWARDEES This year, six people (that we know of) associated with the Nashos have been recognised by being awarded an OAM. Like many persons who are recognised by various organisation, these persons are surprised by the award and, in turn, acknowledge the people with whom they work. NANCY DAWN BATES OAM Wife of Tony, Member of Hervey Bay Branch Citation: For service to the community of Maryborough Media Note: Fraser Coast Chronicle; Community of Maryborough; five other awards. In August 2014 Tony Bates was asked by his wife Nancy where he wanted to spend the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. He thought for a minute. “Maryborough is the best place to spend it because the first man ashore at Gallipoli came from Maryborough,” he declared, before adding fateful words. “And I don’t know why we don’t make more of it.” Nancy raised the subject of recognition for Duncan Chapman over a coffee the next morning with then Fraser Coast mayor Gerard O’Connell, formed a committee and ran a community campaign to raise funds. A statue of Lt Duncan Chapman was unveiled for the centenary, but by that time Nancy had bigger ideas. She realised how few people understood what happened at Gallipoli and the sequence of events on the Western Front,” she said. “We also had a statue of a man peering at the cliffs of Gallipoli, so we set out the build a stylised sculpture of the Anzac Cove landscape and to tell that story of the original Anzacs in a personal, chronological, multi-layered trail with storyboards, audio effects and sculptures.” Tony, who served in Vietnam with Psychological Operations and is a member of the Hervey Bay Nashos, has sometimes wondered about the four-year interruption of the couple’s travel plans but is happy with the legacy, rated world-class and the best memorial to the original Anzacs outside of Canberra.