Issue 607 | April 2020 ISSN 2206-7345 (print) ISSN 2206-7353 (online) Highgate Highlights VALE | Dr Patricia Kailis AM OBE It is with deep regret Official Newsletter of Highgate RSL Sub-Branch and sadness we Returned & Services League of Australia (WA) advise the passing of www.highgate-rsl.org.au Highgate Affiliate member, Dr Patricia Bugler David Scott is ANZAC of the Year Verne Kailis AM OBE MBBS Melb D.Litt(Hon) W.Aust FTSE FAICD (born 19 August 1933) who died peacefully at home, early on Friday Dr Patricia Kailis 17 April 2020. Patricia was a business woman, geneticist and neurologist noted for her work in genetic counselling for neurological and neuromuscular disorders. She was widow of Michael Kailis, a pioneer of the WA crayfishing, prawning and pearling industries. In 2010, Rocky Bay Inc opened the Patricia Kailis Centre in Cockburn Central. Highgate RSL member, who has sounded The Last Post on his Rocky Bay provides therapy and bugle throughout Western Australia and the world, has been A support for families living with awarded the prestigious ANZAC of the Year Award. disabilities and is dedicated to Dr Retired Army Lance Corporal, David Scott, is one of only five ANZAC Kailis for her support of Rocky Bay of the Year recipients Australia-wide to receive the annual award this over four decades. year that recognises outstanding contribution to the organisation, the The family has requested that in lieu wider Veteran community and to the general public. of flowers, donations be made to the Apart from David’s devotion to duty in the playing of the bugle at Patricia Kailis Fellowship in Rare countless commemorative services and events, he has also been Genetic Disease at the Harry Perkins recognised for his tireless work for the retired and elderly community. Medical Research Institute. Previous WA Governor, Hon Kerry Sanderson AC, has formally www.perkins.org.au. Highgate RSL acknowledged David’s selfless contribution during her time as Governor members convey our deepest and in her current role as Warden of the State War Memorial. sympathy to all her family. David served in the Army Reserve for over 39 years as a Bandsman/ Lance Corporal in the Army Band Perth, retiring in September 2017. His playing prowess has seen him play on ANZAC Day at Gallipoli in Welcome to our 1990, at Fromelles in 2016, at Villers-Bretonneux in 2017, and at Last CONFINED TO BARRACKS Post ceremonies at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Issue of Highgate Highlights A member of Highgate RSL and a Sub Warden of the State War We know you’re probably going Memorial for the past 13 years, David attends an average of 35 stir-crazy, sitting on the floor, throwing commemorative services each year on a voluntary basis. your tennis ball against the wall, Added to this is his playing of the bugle at Veteran funerals, nursing catching it, throwing it again…(just like homes, schools and at AFL ANZAC Day matches. Steve McQueen in The Great Escape , RSLWA State President, Peter Aspinall AM, said David Scott’s and Ginger in Chicken Run ) Haven’t contribution is only matched by his humility and steadfast commitment seen Chicken Run ?! Best animated to honouring the proud history of Australian Veterans and the Australian movie ever for Veterans. Get it now! Defence Force. Congratulations, David, from all at Highgate RSL. So, what have we got for you to do? No Highgate Luncheons during operational pause Well, we’ve got the world’s best Important ANZAC Day events | Saturday 25 April collection of coffee-spiller COVID19 ° 0530 | Dawn Service ABC broadcast from Australian War Memorial jokes and howlers collated in one spot ° 0600 | Personal Dawn Vigil on your driveway, patio or balcony WARNING: Do not hold hot drinks ° 1000 | ANZAC Day commemoration on Capital Radio while reading coffee-spillers See page 2 for great ways to commemorate ANZAC Day, including Plus there are online jigsaws; all the programs on ABC Television and activities for all the family virtual visits to world-class tourist destinations so you Last Post | Lest We Forget don’t have to book a special We remember with deep sadness and affection our esteemed Member deal on the Ruby Princess and Dr Patricia Kailis AM OBE MBBS Melb D.Litt(Hon) W.Aust FTSE FAICD spend your time in even tighter and convey our sincere condolences and sympathy to all her family and friends lockdown; and links to the best museums on the planet. Send your ANZAC DAWN driveway photograph to Highgate Highlights and we’ll publish as many as possible next month. Highgate Highlights | April 2020 | Page 2 Email jpegs and photographer’s name to [email protected], thanks. Commemorating ANZAC Day during COVID19 Lockdown Your unforgettable Australian War Memorial ANZAC Day Services & Events and unmissable ANZAC Day broadcast Broadcasting on ABC TV ANZAC Day Dawn Program The Australian War Memorial will Channel 2 Perth Family members are encouraged to televise a private ANZAC Day (and elsewhere – check details locally) stand in quiet contemplation at the commemorative Service from 0530 0500 Australia Remembers on 25 April 2020. 0530 Dawn Service from the end of their driveways, on porches or balconies, with a lit candle or torch, The traditional Dawn Service, Australian War Memorial Canberra to commemorate the 105th anniver- National Ceremony and Veterans’ 0610 Melbourne Dawn Service sary of the landing of Australian and March will not take place. 0630 Adelaide Dawn Service New Zealand troops at ANZAC 0700 ANZAC morning breakfast The revised ceremony will be held in 1000 WA ANZAC Day Service Cove, Gallipoli in 1915. (Due to the Commemorative Area and Hall COVID19, these dawn commemora- Or perhaps record this for later , of Memory of the Memorial. While while you instead listen to the tions replace the first cancellation of not open to the public, it will be ANZAC Day Services since WWII.) equally special ANZAC Day broad- broadcast live across Australia by cast on Capital Radio 101.7 FM and 0555 Family members assemble in the ABC and streamed online. Capital Digital at 1000-1100, with the driveway with a lit candle or torch Wreaths will be laid by dignitaries WA stories presented by Tony 0600 Ode (a copy of the ode can be representing the Commonwealth, Howes, introduced by Governor viewed here ) people of Australia and New Beazley, with voices of original 0602 Play the Last Post on your Zealand, as well as by senior ANZACs, a King giving hope to the phone or via a Bluetooth speaker representatives of current and nation; and the artistry of WA 0606 One minute's silence former Veterans. performers telling these stories afresh 0607 Play Reveille on your phone or 1130 ANZAC Day reflections via a Bluetooth speaker The televised ceremony will retain traditional elements and provide an 1134 Australia Remembers 0609 Play the Australian National 1200 ABC News on ANZAC Day Anthem on your phone or via a blue- opportunity for Australians to safely pause in their homes, in honour of 1300 ANZAC Day Gallipoli tooth speaker Centenary Commemoration 2015 0612 Play the New Zealand Veterans and the Australian spirit. 1400 ANZAC Day Villers-Bretonneux National Anthem on your phone or The last time smaller or limited Commemoration via a bluetooth speaker capacity ANZAC Day Services were 1500 A Very Short War The Last Post, Reveille and both held was in 1942, due to the threat 1600 The Last Charge National Anthems can be Australia faced during the Second 1630 Landline ANZAC Tribute downloaded from: https:// World War. This was also the first 1700 General programming resumes anzacportal.dva.gov.au/ year a commemorative Service was commemoration/event-planning/ held at the Australian War Memorial, Leading in to ANZAC DAY music and this will continue in 2020. The entire WA community is invited

to lead in to ANZAC Day by: Follow your Dawn Service with a As a nation, we recognise the ° Watching out for community traditional gunfire breakfast of importance of ANZAC Day and on service announcements on tv and bacon, eggs, tomato and sausage, 25 April this year, all Australians are social media with participation by plus maybe a mug of (rum-spiked) encouraged to pause and reflect on some of WA’s most inspiring tea or coffee to toast the Fallen. the Service and sacrifice of the more Veterans, WA Governor Hon Kim than 102,000 Australians who have Beazley AC and State Premier died in wars, conflicts and peace- WA ANZAC Day video Hon Mark McGowan BA LLB MLA. keeping operations. RSLWA Patron and WA Governor ° Encouraging your children to Kim Beazley AC, Premier Mark create craft, or draw pictures about McGowan and several Veterans are ANZAC Day, and post them on the encouraging everyone to mark RSLWA Facebook page and place ANZAC Day. View this RSLWA in their home windows. video at https://bit.ly/2UQNuXd ° Sharing mateship-themed Veteran

video profiles and articles on social ANZAC2020 Live media. This is a link to an ANZAC Day ° Posting ANZAC Day tributes and Dawn Service with Ben Roberts- photos to RSLWA’s Facebook and Smith VC MG as speaker, Russell Instagram pages, including the Crowe reciting the Ode and Jack #rslwamateship and Thompson presenting the introduc- #DrivewayDawnService hashtag tion. Join the group on Facebook on all social posts. and watch from 0530. It will also be ° Donating to the annual ANZAC available throughout the day. Appeal, with funds going toward https://www.facebook.com/groups/ the health, wellbeing and advocacy anzac2020/ of our valued Veterans at rslwa.org.au/donate . Highgate Highlights | April 2020 | Page 3 From our President from Commodore Brett Dowson Pensions Report (RAN) and Clive Robartson By David MacLean WA Korean Memorial (RAAFA), giving Tri-Service A battle half won and Pensions & compensation activities representation to the committee, continued, albeit at a slower pace in progress which held its first meeting in early with Advocates and Delegates As ANZAC Day 2019. Enthusiastic encouragement working from home. All client approaches and we was received from State and interviews were conducted by think about the conflicts Federal Government and Opposition telephone or online. Bill Munro that have involved members, from Ex-Service Australian troops, our Organisations, from other RSL Sub- A much slower pace with minds naturally drift to the two World Branches and the WA Korean consequent lower productivity, but; Wars. A little deeper thinking may community. nevertheless, some welcome determinations and decisions. bring to mind the Boer War, Vietnam Eventually, a letter was received and in more recent times, Iraq and from the Board of RSLWA, confirm- Hospitals & Welfare Afghanistan. ing their support for the memorial, a By Bruce Taylor Australia has also been involved In mandatory prerequisite to any formal I trust all of you are managing to many other wars like Timor Leste, application to the Botanic Gardens cope during this difficult time. I’ve Rwanda, Malaya and of course, the and Parks Authority. spoken to a number of members

Forgotten War, Korea. After months of planning, meetings who are being well looked after by

Australia was one of 21 nations that consultations and site visits, I am friends, family, former shipmates or delighted to report that on Friday 17 Service colleagues. committed troops to the Korean campaign. Over 17,000 Australians April 2020, we were able to deliver a However, I know there may be served in Korea 1950-53. Our losses comprehensive and formal some who are alone and unable to were 340 killed in action, 43 missing submission to the Executive Director readily get assistance. If you know in action 29 prisoners of war, and of BGPA, Alan Barrett. We now of a member in this situation, 1,216 wounded. await their response. please advise me so we can

WA was represented with about Regards - Bill Munro activate a

welfare 1,725 ADF members from all three program for Services. Veteran Access Networks them. Acknowledgement of the Australian still available commitment to the Korean War is commemorated by memorials in Veterans and their families can continue to access DVA services Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne Members celebrating their and on the Gold Coast in online and by telephone throughout COVID19. birthday in April include Queensland. There are also Stephen Chamarette, Ian Petkoff, memorials in Japan at Yokohama, DVA’s Veteran Access Network and Jim Eayrs, Leslie Castle, Veronica and in Busan in South Korea where Veteran Support Officers (VSOs) are Byrnes, Malcolm Weatherhead, Australian Servicemen are buried. two of the most important access Peter Garside, Brian Copping, It is therefore surprising that no points for clients – and while there Robert Pickard, Robert Somerville, memorial exists in WA to may be temporary suspension of Robert Trotter, Ken Barton, Sean commemorate our commitment to face-to-face services, online and Collopy, Roy Stacey, Gerry the war in Korea and in memory of telephone support to the Veteran Warner, Phillip White, Leigh Salter, the Fallen, especially as the remains community and their families will Cecil Walkley and Wayne Tarr continue. of deceased Servicemen were not returned to Australia. Skilled DVA general enquiry staff will Highgate Committee zooms work through your enquiry, and into lockdown meeting It was against this backdrop that In a first-ever, Highgate Committee Highgate RSL was approached to Veterans with more complex needs will have the option to pre-book a met online this month to success- form a committee to see what could fully conduct all the business of the be done to remedy the situation. The telephone appointment with a Veteran Access Network officer. Sub-Branch, using a range of optimum aim and result would be to mobile phones, laptops and desk- have a memorial constructed in For the safety of both the Veteran top computers for Zoom Kings Park, the metropolitan home of community and staff, all face-to-face teleconferencing. the majority of war memorials, but service delivery for DVA business that seemed to be a huge task. at Veteran Access Network offices,

Highgate members on the committee shopfronts and Services Australia were Duncan Warren, Peter Heeney locations have been temporarily (also president of the RAR Association) , suspended until the current COVID19 situation eases. Highgate’s Korean Veterans, Dr James Lee and Jin-Kil Lee, and me. Members of the Veteran community

The committee was also able to requiring assistance can enlist the support of Fay Duda, access MyService , lodge an online Honorary WA Korean Consul, and enquiry or call 1800 555 254. Highgate Highlights | April 2020 | Page 4

Great Gallipoli Nation Builders By Hon Tim Fischer AC (dec.) A former Army Officer, ex-Federal Nationals Leader, ex-Deputy Prime Minister and ex-Ambassador), Tim Fischer passed away on 22 August 2019, aged 73. He joined the Australian Army in 1966 and served with 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) 1966-69 as a Second Lieutenant. With his battalion, he served in the Vietnam War and was wounded in the Battle of Coral-Balmoral in 1968. 1RAR and the 1st Australian Task Force were awarded a Unit citation for gallantry for their actions at Battle of Coral-Balmoral and Tim Fischer was therefore entitled to wear the citation insignia. Tim was a driving force behind the campaign to have General Sir John Monash posthumously promoted to Field Marshal. I salute a group of 41 Gallipoli Veterans who survived rank to Field Marshal as a salute to all the AIF and World War One and contributed so much, some ranging deservedly a salute to Monash. Ample precedent from Postmaster General H L Anthony to Matron Grace exists and it will not open the floodgates. Margaret Wilson who cared for the wounded on Lemnos At another level, we look to our Parliamentarians to Island, near Gallipoli. Aviation activists Hudson Fysh, lead in a positive way, yes - always with a degree of George Jones, Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm were all partisanship and battles over ideas and policies - but at Gallipoli, plus Lord Richard Casey, S M Bruce and spare us the acid and ego-driven personality politics. Cardinal Gilroy, and many more. We did not go through World War One and later The list of 41 is provided below. They all returned to wars to squander a hard-earned place in the sun. outperform for their beloved country, in salute of the AIF It was make-or-break twice for our nation since 1900, members who never returned, in salute of the democratic thrice, if we count the war on terror. nation state they called home. We must and can do better, a whole lot better; and One hundred-plus years on, the values that emerged we owe it to those who have served, especially the from World War One, democratic nation states rather than all-volunteer AIF and their values to see this is so. despotic evil empires, need nurturing more than ever To end with the words of Sir John Monash: The best before. hope, the only hope for Australia is the ballot box and I am despondent in this regard. We gave Sir John good education. Monash zero, absolutely zero, Australian awards post-11 A key alphabetical list of those who served at November 1918, and we appear to be continuing with this Gallipoli, survived World War One, and then went on to veto, blocking posthumously promoting him one step in contribute greatly to Australia is provided below: Hubert Lawrence Anthony Federal Minister, including Postmaster General Charles Bean Official WW1 Historian, AWM Founding Chairman About Highgate RSL Henry Gordon Bennett 8th Division Commander WW2 - Fall of Singapore Sub-Branch Arthur Blackburn VC Co-founder RSL SA, State MP Formed in 1947, Highgate RSL Sir Thomas Blamey Victorian Police Commissioner, WW2 Leader William Kinsey Bolton RSL Leader, Victorian Senator Sub-Branch has long had Albert Borella V C Dundas Vic activist, Albury community anchor responsibility for managing Stanley Melbourne Bruce PM post WW1, London Agent General in WW 2 commemorative activities at the Lord Richard C asey Last Governor Bengal, Federal Minister and GG State War Memorial.

Sir Arthur Coles Melbourne Lord Mayor, Federal MP, Co-Founder of Coles Our members also form the Sir Harry Chauvel Inspector General of the Army Sir Albert Coates Leading Surgeon Honour Avenue Group that installs William Dunstan VC General Manager H & WT and maintains the commemorative Pompey Elliott Senator who suffered early PTSD and suicided tree plaques in Kings Park that Chaplain Father John Fahey Co-founder and State President WA RSL memorialise West Australians who Harry Foll Senator for Queensland, Federal Minister have fallen in service of their Sir Hudson Fysh Co-founder of QANTAS nation, but are not buried in WA. Sir John Gellibrand Victorian Police Commissioner, Federal MP Cardinal Norman Gilroy Bishop Port Pirie, later Archbishop of Sydney Our newsletter also includes Sir Thomas Glasgow Defence Minister, later High Commissioner to Canada relevant items relating to State and John Hamilton VC Captain WW2 in PNG national RSL administrations; as Neville Howse VC First Australian Boer War VC winner, Federal Minister well as projects and issues from Ion Idriess Leading Book Author including ‘Flynn of the Inland’ the Department of Veteran Affairs; Albert Jacka VC Mayor of St Kilda including comment by the Minister Sir George Jones Head of RAAF in WW2 for Veterans Affairs. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Air Commodore RAAF post WW1 Sir Ray Leane SA Chief Police Commissioner, Police Academy founder Included also are articles on William Kenneth Mackenzie Lawyer and leading Sydney-based legal writer significant historical persons - Sir MacPherson Smith Pioneer aviator, first flight UK-Darwin especially military Sir John Monash SEC Victoria founder, Shrine of Melbourne creator figures, events and Leslie Morshead Led first Nazi defeat at Tobruk in WW2 achievements; Sir Keith Murdoch Gallipoli letter carrier, Herald Weekly Times information from the Henry Murray VC Most decorated WW1 soldier, CO in WW2 Sir Charles Rosenthal NSW State MP and head of Institute of Architects Australian War Sir Granville Ryrie State and Federal MP, later High Commissioner London Memorial in Sir Stanley Savige Co-founder of Legacy Canberra; and of Geoffrey Street MC Federal Defence Minister, Repatriation Minister course, the obliga- Hugo Throssell VC Northam leader, Anti War trail blazer who suicided tory humour Charles Ulm Pioneer Aviator with Kingsford Smith moments to lighten Sir Cyril Brudenell White Chief of General Staff, Chair Federal Public Service Board things up a little. Matron Grace Wilson Matron in Chief on Lemnos (near Gallipoli) WW1

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Operational pause in place until further notice Narrogin dentist accepts WW1 surrender – Not Lawrence of Arabia Collated by Roger Buddrige, Editor

Discussing a repeat of the movie ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ with an old friend recently reminded me of an intriguing and surprising talk given some years ago by Highgate RSL member and Vietnam Veteran, Glenn Darlington, when we were both members of the Naval, Military & Air Forces Club of WA. Below, I’ve collated and fleshed out some of Glenn’s research which clearly showed Lawrence was not the first Allied soldier to arrive and did not accept the surrender of Damascus, capital of the 600 years-old in 1918. Instead, it He landed at ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli reached the outskirts of Damascus, was a dentist from Narrogin WA… on 20 May and was twice wounded overlooking the Barada Gorge. The Lawrence of Arabia claimed he was in May and July, missing the charge 5th Indian Cavalry Division and the first to enter Damascus near at The Nek. Promoted Captain and Lawrence’s Arabs were positioned the end of World War 1, and then Major early in 1916, he was further south. With the British still received the surrender from the detached to other units for much of outside Damascus, Lieutenant governor of the capital city of the the Sinai campaign but returned to Colonel Olden then led a 3rd Light 600 years old Ottoman Empire. 10th LHR for the Gaza-Beersheba Horse Brigade vanguard through

However, there is significant operations of 1917, briefly assuming the city's outskirts pursuing evidence to show that not only was command when the two senior retreating Turks. officers were wounded. T E Lawrence not the first of the After a sleepless night, and at 0500 Allied forces to enter Damascus, he In the trans- operations of on 01 October 1918, the 10th Light also did not accept the surrender mid-1918, Major Olden (now second Horse Regiment moved into either, despite his claim to the -in-command) directed two Damascus, arriving in the city contrary. squadrons in a dismounted bayonet square before 0700 and becoming

Incredibly, the surrender of the charge against a Turkish redoubt the first Allied troops formally to capital city of the 600 years-old guarding Es Salt. The action was enter. Investigating a large crowd Ottoman Empire was instead superbly executed and enabled the outside the town hall, the accepted by a dentist from 8th LHR to capture the town. commanders entered the Serai, Katanning, a small town in WA’s Subsequently, Major Olden's where the city administrators were squadrons held a large enemy force meeting. wheatbelt, about 280 kilometres south east of Perth, and who later on the road until ordered to It was an extraordinary scene in the withdraw. served for 20 years on the State Grand Hall of the imposing Serai in Executive of what is now RSLWA. In September 1918 when 10th LHR Damascus when three dusty Light Arthur Charles Niquet Olden (1881- led the Australian Mounted Division Horsemen, with revolvers drawn, 1949), soldier and dentist, was born in 'The Great Ride' to encircle the were confronted by a large in Ballarat, Victoria where he Turkish armies in Sharon and gathering, clad in the glittering garb studied dentistry. In 1904, he was Samaria, he was in command as of eastern officialdom. registered by the Dental Board of temporary Lieutenant Colonel. His Olden demanded protection for his WA and set up practice at Narrogin. cavalry work, like his earlier troops, and in return promised they He joined the West Australian mounted infantry exploits, showed a would not harm the populace. The Mounted Infantry, Australian fine balance of dash and caution. impeccably dressed and decorated Military Forces, as a Second He took the town of Jenin with a Governor Emir Said Abd el Kader Lieutenant in January 1913. splendid charge by a single rose from his high-backed gold and With the outbreak of war in 1914, squadron and in two days, captured plush chair and greeted them: 'In Lieutenant Olden enlisted in the 8,107 prisoners and five field-guns. the name of the City of Damascus, I Australian Imperial Force on 28 He was awarded the Distinguished welcome the first of the British Service Order. October, and in February 1915, Army' . embarked for Egypt with 'C' By the end of 30 September, the Olden formally accepted from Squadron, 10th Light Horse Australian Mounted Division had Governor Said the surrender of the Regiment (LHR). city, receiving a remarkable Highgate Highlights | April 2020 | Page 6 Turkish Hospital - Damascus 1918 Narrogin dentist accepts WW1 Damascus surrender (cont.) Who was Lawrence of Arabia? document which hailed him as 'the during suppression of the Egyptian Colonel Thomas Edward first British officer to enter nationalist rebellion. Lawrence CB DSO (1888 Damascus, in the bravest manner On 23 March, his column of 400 –1935) was a British known of the Saxon race' He left the moved up the Nile to engage a archaeologist, army city two hours before the arrival of large rebel concentration at officer, diplomat and Lawrence of Arabia. Olden was Bedrasheen and, in his words, 'jolly writer. He was renowned subsequently mentioned in soon had them cold' . Some for his role in the Arab dispatches. T E Lawrence 1918 Revolt and the Sinai and Egyptians were killed and part of Olden then left to continue their ride the village burnt. A British court of Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman through town to block the Homs inquiry was mildly critical of him for Empire during WW1. road. This was made difficult by the tacitly approving the incendiarism. Born on 16 August 1888 in Tremadog, exuberant crowds now eager to This was possibly intended as a Carnarvonshire, Wales, Lawrence studied welcome the liberators. They went in safety valve for the dangerous history at Jesus College, Oxford 1907-10, pursuit of the retreating Turks and temper of his men, inflamed by and from 1910-14, he worked as an Germans towards , leaving alleged Egyptian atrocities. archaeologist for the British Museum, chiefly at Carchemish in Ottoman Syria. others to take charge of the city. Relinquishing command of 10th Soon after the outbreak of war, he Barely had they cleared the way, LHR in July, Olden went to the USA volunteered for the British Army and was when Lawrence arrived with a few of where he furthered his dental stationed in Egypt. In 1916, he was sent to the Arabs and a flamboyant entry, studies and commanded a parade Arabia on an intelligence mission and riding wildly through the town. About of 500 Empire Veterans welcoming quickly became involved with the Arab 0830 that same morning, Lieutenant the Prince of Wales to Philadelphia. Revolt as a liaison to the Arab forces, along General Sir Harry Chauvel drove in When he returned to Australia in with other British officers. for a meeting to decide the city’s February 1920 and settled in Perth Promoted to Colonel, he worked closely future. for work on the history of his with Emir Faisal, a leader of the revolt, and Apparently, Lawrence was so regiment, a reporter commented participated, sometimes as leader, in peeved he demanded the Turk’s that 10th LHR had become his military actions against the Ottoman armed surrender again, then semi- 'foremost religion' . In March 1921 forces, including the Siege of Medina, enshrined his version of history in his Olden became Lieutenant Colonel Battle of , Damascus and the Battle autobiography, Seven Pillars of of 10th LHR AMF, and soon of Megiddo. Wisdom , also claiming the afterwards completed his His British honours included Companion Australians were ‘too sure of Westralian Cavalry in the War , one of the Order of the Bath and the themselves to be careful…thin- of the AIF's most sought-after Unit Distinguished Service Order, and France tempered, hollow, instinctive’ . histories. On 20 September 1922, conferred on him Knight of the Legion of

The Australian War Memorial has a he married Doris Ruth Padbury at Honour and the Croix de Guerre. copy of Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of St Matthew's Anglican Church, The breadth and variety of his activities Guildford. and associations, and his ability to describe Wisdom (which he later admitted was not always based on fact). In Olden relinquished command of the them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia , a January 1936, Lieutenant General 10th LHR in 1923 and in 1924 went title used for the 1962 film based on his Chauvel wrote a letter to the Director to the Reserve of Officers. wartime activities. of the War Memorial, noting some of Over the next 25 years, he After the war, Lawrence joined the the inaccuracies in the book. One of conducted dental practices in and Foreign Office, working with the British these was Lawrence’s account of the around Perth, successfully government and with Faisal. In 1922, he entry to Damascus. prospected for gold and oil, and retreated from public life and spent the With reference to Lawrence's claim pursued his sporting interests, polo years until 1935 serving as an enlisted that 4,000 Rualla tribesmen had and trotting. man, mostly in the Royal Air Force, with a entered Damascus during the night Arthur Olden was on the State brief period in the Army. of 30 September 1918, he says: If executive of the Returned Sailors' During this time, he published his best- any of Feisal's followers did get in and Soldiers' Imperial League of known work, , an during the night, they were Australia for 20 years and during autobiographical account of his unrecognisable as such to the World War II served briefly in the participation in the . He also enemy or ourselves...I am personally Australian Army Medical Corps translated books into English and wrote of the opinion that the first of the (Dental) as Lieutenant Colonel. , which detailed his time in the Arab forces to enter Damascus were Royal Air Force working as an ordinary those who followed Lawrence in, and He died of hypertensive vascular aircraftman. by that time, an Australian Brigade disease on 05 October 1949 in the Lawrence's public image resulted in part (the 3rd Light Horse Brigade) and at Hollywood Repatriation Hospital, from the sensationalised reporting of the least one regiment of Indian Cavalry Perth, and was cremated in uniform Arab revolt by American journalist Lowell had passed right through the city. at Karrakatta, with his ashes Thomas, as well as from Seven Pillars of scattered at sea. He was survived Succeeding to command of 10th Wisdom . In 1935, aged 46, Lawrence was by his wife, two sons and two fatally injured in a motorcycle accident in LHR in January 1919, Lieutenant daughters. Colonel Olden led 'Olden's Force' Dorset.

Highgate Highlights | April 2020 | Page 7 COVID Coffee-Spillers and Survival Kits - Your sanity help for surviving COVID19 A couple of weeks of isolation with And just like that, having a mask, SURVIVAL KIT the family. What could go wrong? rubber gloves, duct tape, plastic 30 things to do when sheeting and rope in your car boot Kid : Hey, Mum. When is this is okay. CONFINED TO BARRACKS coronavirus thing gonna be over? Sort through your old record, tape Mum : Just shut up and eat your (Months from now) or CD collection (remember toilet paper. Partner : ‘Right. It’s safe to go those?). If anyone in your outside, now.’ household is too young to know I’m trying to explain to my kids how Me : ( Now fluent in six languages, what records are, tell them to someone eating bat soup in China daily phone calls with grandma, google it. led to a toilet paper shortage. black belt, eight hours+ sleep every night, skin looks AMAZING, Style your mantelpiece. You know, Babies born in nine months will be befriended a spunky spider under the one you decorated when you known as coronas. Then one day in the fridge) ‘Are you sure?’ first moved into your home and 2033, we shall witness the rise of the haven’t redone since… quaranteens… Quarantine Day 20: Today, I melted an ice cube with my mind just by Get groovy with old household Every disaster movie starts with the staring at it. It took a lot longer that objects and create a novel display. government ignoring a scientist. I thought it would. If anyone asks what it is, pause, raise an eyebrow, stare at them, If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper Home lockdown is like being on a and inform them. ’It’s clearly art’. for a 14 day quarantine, you cruise ship. You go in as a probably should’ve been seeing a passenger and after endless binge Remove everything from your doctor long before COVID19. eating, come out as cargo. shelves, sort books and mementos into piles to keep, recycle and In eight weeks, 88% of blondes will You can save the entire human donate, then reorder them. disappear from the earth. race by spending the whole day doing absolutely nothing. This Go through your mail and sort out a My husband and I decided we don’t opportunity won’t come again, so system to categorise it. Warning: want to have children. We’ll be don’t mess it up. this might occupy you for the rest of telling them tonight at dinner. the day. My wife said that if I don’t get off Anyone else’s car getting three my computer and help with the For anyone who’s ever said they’d weeks to the litre at the moment? dishes, she’ll slam my head on the love to learn a language or musical keyboard, but I think she’s instrument, put your money where Quarantine has turned us all into oklkjf;lkjdf3kj334l4ieljdklfkjsljfl your mouth is. Apps and online dogs. We roam the house all day kdjeiiijflkjlafjlkjafjalkj tools now mean you can do it from looking for food. We are told ‘no’ if f3879dlkjfldsakj84 the comfort of your own home. we get too close to strangers. And we get really excited about car rides. Turns out my top three hobbies are Dust off that old tablecloth, cook up eating at restaurants, going to non- a feast. Set the table (the old Day 1 of Quarantine: I’m going to essential businesses, and touching fashioned way, thank you very meditate and do weight training. my face. much), television, computers and Day 4 of Quarantine: Just pour the phones off (horror), candles and icecream into the pasta. Veteran : ‘Do you have any soft music on, and invite everyone children?’ under your roof to enjoy it together. Friend : ‘Where’s your husband?’ Her : ‘Yes. I have one that’s just It may be a world-first for some. His wife : ‘In the garden.’ under two.’ Friend : ‘I don’t see him.’ Veteran : ‘I may be an old Veteran, Plant a new-season vegetable His wife : ‘You need to dig a little.’ but I know how many one is.’ garden with autumn and winter staples you cook with every week. The police want you to know that Saw my neighbour, Sally, out early You’ll thank yourself if the running from them is not social this morning scraping the My Kid is supermarket aisles fail to deliver. distancing. a Terrific Student sticker off her SUV window. Guess that first week Create an al fresco nook in a slice I have the most loving wife. Last of home-schooling didn’t go so well. of sunshine. All you’ll need is a night, I woke up while she was place to sit, somewhere to rest your holding a pillow tightly over my face To all those grandparents missing feet and a table for a cup of tea or to protect me from COVID19. their grandkids right now. When coffee. this is over, you can have them for The drop in petrol price during the a month. Renew the handles on your kitchen lockdown is like a bald man winning cupboards. What a difference that a hairbrush. makes!

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More COVID Coffee-Spillers and Survival Kits - Your COVID19 sanity help SURVIVAL KIT (cont.) If they shut schools for much longer, Day 2 without sports on television: 30 things to do when mothers are going to find a solution Found a young lady sitting on my CONFINED TO BARRACKS for the virus way before the lounge yesterday. Apparently she’s scientists. my wife. She seems nice. Reconsider your outdoor lighting. Do you need more? Is the Glad I didn’t waste my money buying Pathologist in Coroner’s court : wiring dodgy? Do the bulbs even a calendar planner for 2020. ‘Yes, I can confirm he died as a work? Bruises on your shins may result of COVID19. However, I hold the answer. Home schooling update : My child should add that he had the cleanest just said, ‘I hope I don’t have the hands and bum I’ve ever seen.’ Sweep your entrance, clear the same teacher next year’. cobwebs and style it up the way Mexico is considering closing the you would your interior. It will make No hair salons, no nail salons, no border to stop Americans bringing arriving home a dream when you tanning beds. Some of you guys are corona virus into its country. finally manage to get out of the going to meet your girlfriends for the place. first time. A friend in California was unsuccessfully trying to get a test Grab pen and paper and walk Day 7 of home school biology : I’m for coronavirus: around your house making a list of testing on my child whether or not Health Department : Have you all the places you wish you had chloroform has a smell. been in a country experiencing an power points installed. Tally them outbreak of coronavirus in the past up, find an electrician and get in Cops are now demanding that holed- two weeks? touch for a quote. up wrongdoers come out with their Friend : Yes, the USA. hands washed. Stop your furniture and art from Our five-year old seems to have fading, and increase house cooling/ It’s like being 17 again: Petrol is become the local virus warden. heating, by organising a window cheap and I’m grounded. Over the fence to our neighbour: specialist to apply film to west- ‘Jean. You need to go inside.’ faced glazing. ‘Honey, before this quarantine is ‘Okay. I will in a minute.’ over, many of you are going to be ‘You’re old and there’s a virus.’ Clean your curtains or blinds. If begging Jolene to take your man.’ ‘I’m not that old, thank you.’ they’re beyond the point of return, it ‘How old are you, Jean?’ might be time to order some new Are we expecting car insurance ‘I’m 68.’ ones. refunds as we can’t go anywhere? ‘That is nearly 70, Jean.’ Haven’t sorted through your bath Just saw a burglar kicking his own Airlines in Australia towels in the last 10 years? There’s door in. I said, ‘What are you doing?’ $26 to put your bag on our plane no time like the present. He said, ‘Working from home’. $15 for a snack Sorry, you want your legs to fit? Rifle through your accessories Parents are starting to discover the $25 drawer and give it the de-cluttering teacher is not the problem. Ha Ha. You have to fork out an it deserves. Accessories drawer? extra $13 to choose the seat you You know, the one that won’t ‘Can’t we go to a restaurant? I’m already paid for close… sick of eating groceries.’ Oh, no. Someone please help us. We’re out of money. Set up composting. They’re not as When they come out with a corona smelly as you think and at the very virus vaccine, I don’t want to see any If you feel sick, please don’t waste least it will earn you bragging of you antivaxxers getting one. Don’t the few COVID19 tests they have. rights. be a hyprocrite! There are still a LOT of celebrities with no symptoms who haven’t Pull out the board games. We’re What’s the difference between been tested yet. The rest of us never too old.

Vegas and Wuhan? What need to STAY HOME and WASH OUR HANDS. Snuggle the dog, or get someone in happens in Vegas stays in your household to do so. Fido will Vegas. Any job interview I have from here thank you. on, when they ask if I have any questions for them, it will be: ‘How Dress up your garden for dusk with did your office respond to protect paper lanterns filled with sand and the jobs, health and safety of your tealight candles. Just because. employees during the coronavirus?’ Have breakfast by candlelight with your loved ones. It will delight you all and make your day.

Highgate Highlights | April 2020 | Page 9 Lots more COVID Coffee-Spillers and Survival Kits- Your COVID19 sanity help SURVIVAL KIT I’ve eaten 14 meals and taken six Quarantine Day 5 : Went to this We acknowledge Legacy WA naps and it’s still today. Are you restaurant called The Kitchen . You as source kidding me? have to gather all the ingredients Did you know these things had and make your own meal. I have no names? My daughter and her hubby have idea why this place is still in been taking country dance lessons. business. The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella Shoved the car outside. Hung Christmas lights in the garage. My body has absorbed so much The way it smells after the rain is Turned on the music and went on a soap and disinfectant lately that called petrichor date, dancing in the garage. They when I wee, it cleans the toilet The plastic or metallic coating at bowl. said nobody bumped into them the the end of your shoelaces is called whole night. Had a wonderful time! an aglet Day 5 of Homeschooling : One of If you’re sitting in public and a these little monsters called in a Stomach rumbling is called a stranger takes the seat next to you, bomb threat. wamble just stare straight ahead and say, The cry of a new-born baby is ‘Did you bring the money?’ Classified Ad : Single man with called a vagitus toilet paper seeks woman with Her : What surprises you most about hand sanitiser for good, clean fun. The prongs on a fork are called tines the coronavirus? Him : It’s done what no woman has Day 6 of Homeschooling : My The sheen or light that you see ever been able to accomplish: child just said ‘I hope I don't have when you close your eyes and Cancel all sports. Shut down all the same teacher next year’. I'm press your hands on them is called pubs. Keep men at home. offended. phosphenes

The day after tomorrow is called Better six feet apart than six feet I told my wife to embrace her overmorrow mistakes. She hugged me. under…. Your tiny toe or finger is called a Half of us are going to come out of Sitting on the couch, my husband minimus this quarantine as amazing cooks. sweetly whispered, ‘The best part The wired cage that holds the cork The other half will come out with a about all of this is that I get to in a bottle of champagne is called drinking problem, or divorced. spend more time with you’. As I an agraffe lovingly looked over at him, I I used to spin that toilet paper like I realised he was talking to the dog, The 'na na na' and 'la la la', which was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn not me. don’t really have any meaning in it like I'm cracking a safe. the lyrics of any song, are called vocables Day Seven at home and the dog I need to practice social-distancing is looking at me, like : ‘See? This When you combine an exclamation from the refrigerator. is why I chew the furniture’. mark with a question mark (like this ?!), it is referred to as an Still haven't decided where to go for Day Nine of the quarantine , my interrobang wife took up gardening, but won’t the ANZAC Day Weekend Holiday. The space between your nostrils is tell me what she’s going to plant. The Living Room or The Bedroom? called the columella nasi

Every few days, try on your jeans In case you lost track, today is 97th The armhole in clothes, where the just to make sure they fit. Pyjamas April 2020. sleeves are sewn, is called the will have you believe all's well in the armscye kingdom. Does anyone know if we can take The condition of finding it difficult to showers yet, or should we just keep get out of the bed in the morning is Home schooling is going well. Two washing our hands? called dysania students suspended for fighting and one teacher fired for drinking on the 2019 : Stay away from negative Unreadable handwriting is called griffonage job. people. 2020 : Stay away from positive people. The dot over an ‘I’ or a ‘j’ is called a I never thought the comment ‘I tittle wouldn’t touch him/her with a six foot The world has turned upside down. That utterly sick feeling you get Old folks are sneaking out of the pole’ would become a national after eating or drinking too much is house, and their kids are yelling at policy, but here we are! called crapulence them to stay indoors! This morning, I saw a neighbor The metallic device used to talking to her cat. It was obvious she You think it’s bad now? In 20 years, measure your feet at the shoeshop thought her cat understood her. I our country will be run by people is called a Bannock device came into my house and told my homeschooled by day drinkers… dog. We laughed and laughed.

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And the last COVID19 joke is: When you do squats, are your knees SURVIVAL KIT Great learning ways to pass time When this is over…which meeting supposed to sound like a goat (Hold down ‘CTRL’ key on your do I attend first…Weight Watchers or chewing on an aluminum can stuffed computer, hover the mouse cursor Alcoholics Anonymous? with celery? over the link of your choice until

you see the little ‘hand’ emblem. I don’t mean to interrupt people. I just Horror upon horror Then click to be taken to the site) randomly remember things and get These are Non-COVID19 really excited. Free online jigsaws jokes. Yes, they still exist These are great fun When I ask for directions, please https://www.thejigsawpuzzles.com/ If one door closes and another door don’t use words like ‘east’. https://www.jigsawplanet.com/ opens, you are probably in prison. Don’t bother walking a mile in my World Museums To me, Drink Responsibly means shoes. That would be boring. Spend Anne Franke Museum Amsterdam don’t spill it. 30 seconds in my head. That’ll freak Netherlands https:// you right out. www.annefrank.org/en/museum/ When I say, ‘The other day’, I could web-and-digital/ be referring to any time between That moment when you walk into a British Museum London https:// yesterday and 15 years ago. spider web suddenly turns you into a britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/ karate master. Guggenheim Bilbao Spain https:// Interviewer : ‘So, tell me about www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en yourself.’ Sometimes, someone unexpected Hermitage Museum St Petersburg Me : ‘I’d rather not. I actually want comes into your life out nowhere, Russia https://www.youtube.com/ this job.’ makes your heart race, and changes watch? you forever. We call those people v=49YeFsx1rIw&feature=youtu.be Cop : ‘Please step out of the car.’ cops. Louvre Museum Paris https:// Me : ‘I’m too drunk. You get in.” www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne The older I get, the earlier it gets late. MASP Sao Paolo Brazil https:// I remember being able to get up masp.org.br/en without making sound effects. Very well-dressed elderly Veteran Met Museum New York https:// goes into the bar at a five-star hotel www.metmuseum.org/art/online- I had my patience tested. I’m and sits two stools down from an features/met-360-project negative. elegantly-attired, attractive equally- Musée d’Orsay Paris https:// elderly lady, and says to her: ‘Hello. m.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html If you lose a sock in the dryer, it My name’s Reg. Do I come here very Musei Vaticani Vatican City http:// comes back as a Tupperware lid that often?’ www.museivaticani.va/content/ doesn’t fit any of your containers. museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/ A woman has a problem with her tour-virtuali-elenco.html When you ask me what I’m doing wardrobe door. Every time a bus Museum of London Docklands today, and I say, ‘Nothing’, it does passes, the door falls off. She calls a https:// not mean I am free. It means I am repairman who sees the door does www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ doing nothing. actually fall off. He steps into the about-us/business-Services/venue- wardrobe and closes the door to see hire/museum-london-docklands/ Age 60 might be the new 40, but if he can detect inside what happens virtual-tour 9:00 is the new midnight. when a bus passes. At this point, the National Gallery of Arts Washington woman’s husband arrives home, DC https://www.nga.gov/ I finally got eight hours of sleep. It hears her talking to someone, rushes National Gallery London https:// took me three days, but whatever. upstairs, opens the wardrobe door, www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/ and yells, “What are you doing in virtual-tours I run like the winded. there?” The repairman meekly National Museum of US Air Forces replies, “Believe it or not, I’m waiting https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ I hate it when a couple argues in for a bus…” Natural History Museum London public and I missed the beginning, https://artsandculture.google.com/ and don’t know whose side I’m on. . streetview/the-natural-history- museum-hintze-hall/ When someone asks what I did over yQHjHCmSOMKyhQ the weekend, I squint and ask, ‘Why, Palestine Museum https:// what did you hear?’ www.palmuseum.org/ehxibitions/ ‘It’s virtual-exhibitions I don’t remember much from last mustard Picasso Museum Barcelona http:// night, but the fact that I needed gas, mate, www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/ sunglasses to open the fridge this not museum/presentation.html morning tells me it was awesome. COVID19.’

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This pensioner combined coffee-spiller More World Museums Rijksmuseum Amsterdam with survival kit - True story Netherlands https:// artsandculture.google.com/partner/ Rafale-B fighter aircraft with damaged cockpit rijksmuseum Royal Academy of Arts London https://britishart.yale.edu/ Salvatore Dali Museum Figueres Spain https://www.salvador- dali.org/en/museums/dali-theatre- museum-in-figueres/visita-virtual/# Tate Britain London https:// www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/ display/walk-through-british-art The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles United States https:// artsandculture.google.com/partner/ n elderly and reluctant French When he levelled off, this subjected the-j-paul-getty-museum A pensioner was ejected from a his passenger to a negative load The Museum of Flight https:// French Air Force fighter during a factor of about -0.6G. museumofflight.org/Explore-The- retirement day pressie – and Loose in his straps and floating up, Museum/Virtual-Museum-Online narrowly missed taking the pilot not really wanting to be there and The National Museum of with him. totally unused to being flung around Computing on Bletchley Park The unnamed 64-year-old was like a rag doll, the hapless https://britishart.yale.edu/ ejected from the two-seat Rafale-B pensioner grabbed something to Uffizi Gallery Florence Italy https:// figher aircraft at 2,500 feet, after hang on to for dear life. artsandculture.google.com/partner/ uffizi-gallery grabbing his ejection seat lever to However, he picked the worst- US Holocaust Museum https:// steady himself. possible handhold: the trigger www.ushmm.org/information/ As a defence contractor employee, handle for the ejection seat. exhibitions/online-exhibitions his bosses asked the French Air After the customary loud bang and Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam Force to let him have a joyride in the whoosh, he ceased to be part of Netherlands https:// back seat of one of its Dassault the jet's payload, with the force of artsandculture.google.com/partner/ Rafale fighter jets as a surprise the ejection tearing his unsecured van-gogh-museum retirement gift, despite his never helmet and mask from his face. Virginia Living Museum https:// expressing a desire for a flight. The Rafale-B's ejection system is thevlm.org/visit/about-us/COVID19- The flight was a routine military meant to fire both seats if one of update/natural-education/ training sortie for three Rafales, the crew pulls the handle. Women's History Museum Virginia carried out in perfect weather. USA https:// A very confused pilot, however, The pensioner underwent a quick www.womenshistory.org/womens- was still sitting in his newly canopy- history/online-exhibits medical examination from a doctor free Rafale wondering what the hell before being shown by the pilot how Yale Centre For British Art https:// had just happened. ‘Sacre bleu!’ britishart.yale.edu/ to put on his safety gear. He returned to base, conscious all Unfortunately, no one checked him the time that his own seat could fire And because you’re planning after he clambered into the cockpit, at any moment without warning. that recovery holiday... resulting in his helmet visor Fortunately, it didn't go off. Buckingham Palace London https:// remaining up, his anti-g pants not www.royal.uk/virtual-tours- Both the pilot, his reluctant (and being worn properly, his helmet and buckingham-palace probably now aviation-phobic) oxygen mask were both unattached, Colosseum Rome https:// passenger and the aircraft all and his seat straps were not tight tinyurl.com/thrprzf enough. landed safely.

Machu Picchu https:// Things got worse when the pilot took The passenger said he had no www.youvisit.com/tour/ off from France's Saint-Dizier knowledge of the aeronautical machupicchu?pl=f Robinson Air Base. environment and its forces, having Northern Lights https://explore.org/ never flown in a military aircraft. livecams/aurora-borealis-northern- Rather than the gentle 10°-15° lights/northern-lights-cam ascent which airline passengers In similar news, a French Air Force Pyramids https:// experience, the fighter jet climbed at general is being investigated for www.tripsavvy.com/virtual-field-trip- 47°, generating a load factor of +4G using a Dassault Alpha light attack pyramids-1259200 – four times the normal force of jet aircraft 10 times to fly to his Stonehenge https://tinyurl.com/ gravity. Provence chateau on weekends. wz3xgz7 (30 mins by jet (at A$10,000 each way compared to six hours by car)

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Senior Vice President #1 ANZAC Tile/Wafer recipe Deputy Warden State War Memorial The Army Biscuit, also known as an using a rolling pin and two 8mm Geoff Simpson ANZAC Wafer or ANZAC Tile, is a thick guides (wooden slats are ideal), 0408 925 432 | 6380 1014 [email protected] long-life, hard tack biscuit eaten as a the dough being rolled down between substitute for bread. However, unlike the two guides until the rolling pin Vice President & bread, the biscuits are very, very rests on the guides during each Editor - Highgate Highlights hard. Some soldiers preferred to traverse. Cut dough sheets into Roger Buddrige | 0408 900 126 grind them up and eat as porridge. 90mm squares, preferably using with [email protected] [email protected] the edge of a steel rule rather than 200gm/1.5cups/300mls flour slicing with a knife. 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Place flour, sugar and twist slightly, and then withdraw. 0490 257 469 | 9242 1865 [email protected] milk powder in a large bowl and Repeat at the next position. Each blend with finger tips. Form into pile biscuit should have five vertical and Pensions & Veterans Affairs Advocate and scoop out a hole in the centre. five horizontal rows of docker holes, David MacLean | 0418 917 982 [email protected] Add all of the water in which the salt 25 holes in all. Place on a lightly has been dissolved. Thoroughly greased steel baking sheet, with the Membership Officer work the flour from inside the well biscuits about 6mm apart, and form a Howard Montagu | 0417 956 621 [email protected] into the water until the whole is a wall around the load with scrap mass of lumps of flour and water. dough to avoid burning the edges of Hospitals & Welfare Officer When dough is formed, transfer to a the biscuits. Bake at 200 degrees Bruce Taylor | 0408 955 219 [email protected] table top. Tear apart, rub into balls centigrade for 30-40 minutes on a and throw together, and repeat until low shelf in the oven. Take care not Honour Avenues Representative well mixed and a hard dough. to burn them. To achieve a suitable & Poppy Day Organiser Rest the dough for half an hour. hardness, store in an air-tight Mike Harness | 0419 091 708 [email protected] Then roll the dough in 8mm sheets container. Web Manager #2 1926 ANZAC biscuit recipe #3 1933 ANZAC biscuit recipe Ian Petkoff | 0490 242 676 [email protected] NSW Country Women's Association 2 cups rolled oats General Committee 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup each of rolled oats, sugar Margot Harness | 9349 2847 1 cup plain flour and coconut [email protected] 1/2 cup melted butter 1 tablespoon syrup 3/4 cup flour Leon Griffiths | 0439 033 399 1 tbls golden syrup [email protected] 2 tbls boiling water 2 tablespoons butter 1 tsp bicarbonate soda (add a little 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda Allan Downs | 0427 932 166 [email protected] more water if mixture is too dry). (dissolved in 2 tbls boiling water) Greg Smith | 0458 204 538 [email protected] Combine dry ingredients. Mix golden Melt butter. Add syrup to dissolved syrup, boiling water and bicarbonate soda and water. Combine with Front Desk of soda until they froth. Add melted melted butter. Mix dry ingredients Bob Campbell | 9279 3502 butter. Combine butter mixture and and stir in liquid. Place small balls on Helen Birch | [email protected] dry ingredients. Drop teaspoons of a buttered tray and bake in moderate Joke contributors include Bill Munro, Greg mixture onto floured tray, allowing oven. Lift out carefully with a knife as Wilson, Geoff Simpson, Howard Montagu, room for spreading. Bake in a slow they are soft till cold. Allan Downs, Steve Chamarette, Bruce oven. Taylor and Highgate friend, Penny U. Disclaimer Highgate Highlights source material is edited to remove inappropriate content, and clarify, This newsletter is printed as a shorten or standardise where needed. Although normal tests for accuracy are undertaken, you should not rely on any of this material without carrying out your own validity checks. Opinions are not service to the Veterans Community necessarily those of RSL Highgate Sub-Branch or RSLWA. by the Office of the Newsletter contributions are always welcome. Please send to [email protected] Federal Member for Perth