MARCH 2019 ISSUE
ListeningThe POST ANZAC Day 2019: Get Your Comprehensive Events Guide Here
The Poppy Effect: Remembrance Day As It Happened
The Official Journal of The Returned & Services League of Australia WA Branch Incorporated You are invited to 2019 HELP OUR HEROES
Get your dancing shoes on, you’re officially invited to RSLWA’s night of nights - the Help Our Heroes Charity Ball!
This remarkable event is your opportunity to mark your respects to those who served by supporting our fundraising Help Our Heroes campaign. You can also help celebrate the achievements of RSLWA, and dance the night away while catching up with old friends. The event includes top-class food, live entertainment, special guests, a raffle and a live auction. The night will include a focus on the future of RSLWA as it takes the lead on its new venture with Veterans Central in 2020. It will be held at Crown Towers’ Perth Ballroom on Saturday, June 15. Purchase your Charity Ball tickets and secure some great deals on accommodation at Crown Perth.
H Tickets are now available. H Tickets are $185.00 each or $1,800 for a table of 10. H Early bird pricing valid until April 26th 2019. H Special deals and room rates across Crown Towers, Crown Metropol and Crown Promenade are available on our website. Visit www.rslwa.org.au/help-our-heroes-charity-ball or call Wendy Moss for more information on 9287 3799.. CONTACT DIRECTORY Chief Executive Officer John McCourt JP, MBA, FAIM, MPRIA (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Executive Assistant to the State President and Chief Executive Officer Nola Keen (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] HELP OUR Veteran Liaison Manager Samuel Lee (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Veteran Services Manager The crew of HMAS Warramunga stand at attention during the wreath-laying ceremony on Sharon Briggs ANZAC Day. Photo: LSIS Tom Gibson HEROES (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Advocate David Faithfull/Andrew Endrey/Lauren Hawke (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] State Welfare Officer Rosalind Howat Events/News (08) 9287 3799/0417 905 742. [email protected] INSIDE President’s Pen 4 State Membership Officer Andrea Hunt CEO’s Commentary 6 (08) 9287 3705. [email protected] Staff Support Officer ANZAC House Updates 8 Hayley Barclay Features (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] ANZAC Day Services 10-25 Chief Financial Officer Phillippe and his ANZAC Peter McGlade Biscuits 26 The Honourable (08) 9287 3718. [email protected] Kim Beazley AC 32 Financial Services Manager Happy Birthday, Fred 62 Karen Cleverly Remembrance Day 2018 34-49 (08) 9287 3703. [email protected] Property & Corporate Services Officer Remembering the Fallen 52 Matthew Holyday (08) 9287 3714. [email protected] Australia Day Awards 54 Director of Marketing & Development Laura Yau Vale Bill Mitchell 60 (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Community Events & Fundraising Officer WA’s Boy Soldiers 50 Wendy Moss (08) 9287 3701. [email protected] Ghosts of the Masters of War 56 Events Coordinator Maryanne Martino Voice of Fremantle 58 (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Regular Integrated Marketing Officer Boddington’s New Floor 63 Ashayla Ramsay Last Post 65 (08) 9287 3700. [email protected] Digger’s Day Donnybrook 64 Unit and Kindred Listing 66 Communications & Engagement Officer Maxine Brown (08) 9287 3799. [email protected] Archives & Research Officer Helen Starkie (Tue & Wed) (08) 9287 3713. [email protected] Board 2018 Chairman/State President: Mr Peter Aspinall State Vice President: Mrs Donna Prytulak Mr Bill Collidge RFD, Mr Ken Morris, Mr Royce Spencer, Mr Duncan Anderson, Mr Chris Mayfield OAM, Mrs Robyn Steenbach. Trustees Mr. Don Blair OAM RFD Mr. Wayne Tarr RFD ED Mr. Philip Orchard AM, AFNI CMDR RAN (Ret’d)
Cover Photo CONTACT DETAILS Ashlee Graveson, aged 5, wears the medals of her great- The Returned & Services League of Australia WA Branch Incorporated grandfather, Cpl Charles Morris Level 3/66 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000 Green (QX16634), as she plants PO Box 3023, East Perth WA 6892 | T: 08 9287 3799 | F: 08 9287 3732 poppies in his memory. E: [email protected] | W: www.rslwa.org.au | FB: www. facebook.com/rslwa Full Remembrance Day wrap, starting P32. Writing and Advertising Information: [email protected] Image taken by Taylor Edwards Graphic Design: Kore Design | Printer: Vanguard Press Photography. WA Country Callers: 1800 259 799 (Landline only) RSL STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The RSL was founded in 1916 to provide comradeship and support to Australia’s Veterans and their families. That core mission has never changed but has continued to evolve to meet the needs of each generation of servicemen and women. We have a branch network that covers Australia and any Veteran who needs help will get it – every serving ADF member and Veteran will be warmly welcomed at their local RSL Sub-Branch or club. We advocate for the best possible conditions for our serving men and women and for those who have served the nation in the past. We foster respect and thanks from the nation for all those who have made sacrifices in Australia’s name and we will provide a strong voice on issues of national unity and security.
PREVIOUS EDITIONS Copies of The Listening Post published are available on our website: www.rslwa.org.au
PUBLISHING Publishing of The Listening Post: Published three times a year with a readership of over 25,000. To all Sub-Branch Presidents and Secretaries: Send photographs (1Mb plus) and a short article on special activities at your Sub-Branch to The Listening PRESIDENT’S PEN Post. From the State President, Peter Aspinall, AM DEADLINE FOR NEXT EDITION: 31 MAY 2019 The preferred method of receiving submissions is via email. Photographs should be attached separately and a minimum of 1Mb. This is your magazine and contributions and letters are welcome Address to: The Listening Post PO Box 3023 In the lead-up to ANZAC Day, it is timely EAST PERTH WA 6892 Email: [email protected] to reflect on where we have come from Opinions expressed by contributors in articles and reproduced articles are the individuals’ opinions or and where RSLWA is going. the authors of such reproduced articles and are not necessarily those of the RSL. It is about being strong in resolve and steadfast in purpose Reproduction of articles (or extracts) contained in The as we embark on a new era of doing what we have done for Listening Post are welcomed, provided the source is acknowledged. The writers reserve the right to accept, more than 100 years. reject, sub-edit and re-arrange material submitted for publication. As many of you will be aware, RSLWA now finds itself in a
Infringement of Copyright Laws: sound financial position, but it is vitally important that we We cannot accept Newspaper clippings for use this platform to plan well and ensure the organisation publication without express approval from the Newspaper Editor as we may infringe on delivers on the growing needs of Veterans, young and old. Copyright Laws. Over the coming years, the Veteran community in WA will grow. Veterans span the age groups, from just twenty years of age to their fifties, and we have a lot to do embrace this
rslwa.org.au new cohort.
rslwahq A year ago, your Board of Directors made a carefully reasoned decision to progress the development of a new rslwa ANZAC House, which will double as Veteran Central. This is company/returned-and-services- league-of-australia-wa-branch/ a major financial commitment by RSLWA and carries with it a further commitment to progress the development of greater metropolitan and regional Veteran Centres or Hubs.
4 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au This said, the Board has also of ANZAC Day means it will once new era for the WA Veteran taken prudent steps to invest again take on state and national community. Thanks to the hard a sizeable amount of State- significance. work of State-Branch staff, and Branch capital in order to attract the many volunteers from Sub- ANZAC Day 2019 marks the end suitable returns on investment Branches and elsewhere, I am of the past four years of special to effectively ‘keep the lights confident that we will once again Centenary commemorations on’, helping to meet the ongoing do ourselves proud. operational expenses of running and I would like to take this the organisation year-by-year. opportunity to thank the State Government, through Lotterywest, Alongside this investment for supporting us, and the HELP OUR strategy is the hard work being importance that commemoration put in by the State Fundraising has in validating the commitment HEROES Committee, the Finance and sacrifices made by our men Committee and the Investment and women in uniform. In this edition of The Listening Advisory Group. These entities Post, the CEO outlines The traditional Dawn Service assist the Board in making the efforts being made to will be followed once again by the sometimes hard decisions make RSLWA’s Help Our the March through the streets that must be made if we are Heroes Campaign a great of the Perth CBD, prior to the to provide security for RSLWA success. But for it to be so, I Commemorative Service in the moving forward. respectfully urge all of you to comfort of the Perth Concert Hall. get behind the campaign – ANZAC Day I am encouraged by the increase wherever you are – to make it a standout success. Increasing numbers of in numbers of those who intend Veterans and an ever-growing on marching on ANZAC Day appreciation for the importance – reflecting the dawning of a
RSLWA President Peter Aspinall AM says a few words at the foot of the Cenotaph during the Kings Park Dawn Service. Photo: ABIS Christopher Szumlanski
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 5 CEO REPORT From CEO, John McCourt
RSLWA as the enabler RSLWA is taking an agile and collective approach to Veterans services by forging new and enduring partnerships. We are ‘doing things better together’, with other Ex-Service Organisations (ESOs) and Veteran Service Providers.
The approach we are taking with development of the new ANZAC RSLWA’s point of This is central to the continued House Veteran Central Regional and growing relevance of Hubs and the IT support difference RSLWA within the wider Veteran required is a real game-changer. community, especially at a time Your State-Branch The collective approach by of increased numbers of men RSLWA effectively makes use has had its nose and women of the Australian of our bricks and mortar, and to the grindstone Defence Force transitioning from reach throughout WA, to deliver military to civilian life. moving ahead with what Veterans and their families a ground-breaking While it is very pleasing that need and deserve. By placing approach to serving RSLWA membership is on the Veteran and his/her family at the rise, it’s fundamental we the centre of the service circle, the needs of Veterans continue to assist any Veteran a new way of delivering services and their families. who needs support – and that and support is the way to the includes their family. future.
6 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au What’s different? Today, an Australian Veteran may • Wellbeing & Welfare be any age or gender, and may This is why RSLWA differs to Providing quality services have served in a wide variety what is currently being offered. that meet the needs of of military environments. There Our approach is as simple our serving and ex-serving are more than 25,000 veterans as it is innovative, and that’s Defence Force personnel in Western Australia – many why RSLWA can deliver, by and their families, of them young veterans who championing a Veteran Central including mental health face emerging challenges. An one-stop-shop model. and medical support. estimated 7,000 to 10,000 West Australians have deployed to Australia’s veteran support • Transition overseas conflicts since 1999. environment is crowded and Working with the ADF to only effective if an efficient and accompany and support By any measure, emerging unified approach to supporting serving personnel through statistics send a clear message our heroes is engaged to ensure the transition from military to ESOs to work together. The for the long-term. to civilian life and the facts speak for themselves: challenges of gaining • The suicide rate among ex- To make it simpler, in a employment. sometimes complex service- servicemen between 2002 delivery environment, Veterans • Advocate Services and 2015 was 14% above the will have a streamlined and Providing quality services national average. that meet the advocacy practical way of accessing • One in 20 Australians needs of our serving services through a host of experiencing homelessness and ex-serving Defence ESOs, government, health, have serviced in the Force personnel and their legal, financial and counselling Australian Defence Force. providers through the RSLWA families. Veteran Central approach. • Veteran unemployment is 5 • Commemoration times the national average. • It’s about making life easier Conserving our history for veterans and legacy and, by • The delivery of practical yet • It’s about making life better doing so, recognising innovative ways to improve for their families the critical importance support to Veterans, and the • It’s about focusing on the that commemoration importance of community Veteran and not the systems and remembrance has in and government backing, validating the roles and is fundamental – and that’s In coming months, RSLWA’s sacrifices of those who exactly what RSLWA can, Fundraising Committee will have served and who are and will, deliver by taking this continue its hard work on still serving. ground-breaking collective developing a statewide roll-out approach. of the RSLWA Help Our Heroes Campaign. To this end, it is vital that as many Sub-Branches as possible help to make this campaign a winner – not just for now but to help fund Veteran programs and services into the future.
By supporting the Help Our Heroes Campaign, the Veteran Central approach will be an enduring vehicle for delivering vital services to Veterans. Companion and assistance dogs are valuable in helping contemporary veterans deal with PTSD. Photo: LSIS Tom Gibson
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 7 The decision by RSLWA to progress with the demolition of the 1970s building and ANZAC subsequent development of a new ANZAC House Veteran Central was due to a number of HOUSE: factors but most importantly: • The now demolished ANZAC THE REBUILD House facility was a building in need of urgent repair, renovation BEGINS and upgrade. The cost of this was estimated to be around $1 million. However, an issue of In the early hours of 3 November, a 25-tonne staff and visitor occupational piling rig made its four-hour journey from health and safety remained due to the need to consider the Midland to St Georges Terrace to commence integrity of asbestos material its task of sinking over 300 6-9m piles into the in the premises that could be ground, as a new chapter of ANZAC HOUSE exposed during alteration works. begins. • The cost of major extensions to allow for more space, and to remedy the overcrowding of staff and veteran amenities in line with
8 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au current compliance regulations, ANZAC House Veteran Central will comprise: was estimated to cost in the order • Basement: of $8 million. Car parking; end of journey facilities; storage and all services tanks The initial move to commence the transfer of Land Title was in • Ground: November 2016 under the Barnett Veteran Central reception, Lobby, ESO retail outlet and ‘The Government but a considerable Mess’ – a meeting place for family and friends negotiation period only concluded • Level One: in the latter part of 2018. ANZAC Club Finally, bright and early on • Level Two: Melbourne Cup Day 2018, Ex-Services Organisations and Affiliated Groups Consultation Premier Mark McGowan publically offices and meeting areas handed the Land Title of 28-30 • Level Three: St Georges Terrace to RSLWA RSLWA Administration offices President Peter Aspinall at the soil turning ceremony. Finally, after 45 • Level Four: years, RSLWA had its home soil Ex-Services Organisations and Affiliated Groups Consultation again. offices and meeting areas
The new building has been • Level Five: designed with long-term vision. Conferencing, State Congress and Veteran/Military functions The structure and building • Level Six: envelope is capable of additional RSLWA and Ex-Services Organisations Ceremonial Hall floors if needed in the future. The operations are • Levels Seven and Eight: environmentally and ecologically Plant and equipment sensitive and cost-efficient, Progress on site remains on a program with a completion date for reducing RSLWA’s outgoings to the entire redevelopment in the middle of 2020 almost 50% of current building standards in Perth. At this time the basement is prepared for the base slab to be poured with all the underground drainage and services completed.
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The Returned & Services League of WA greatly appreciates the support of Wesfarmers for publication of these ANZAC Day services. Saluting Contemporary Veterans ANZAC Day, it’s as escape the residual horrors of iconic to Australians modern warfare, which haunt them daily. as billy tea. This is reflected in Ask any Aussie to describe this disproportionately high rates of national day of commemoration, suicide, homelessness, crippling and they’ll usually talk proudly of PTSD and unemployment ageing Diggers from the world suffered by young Aussie vets. wars marching for the fallen. But It’s a brutal truth that RSLWA time shifts rapidly and as the cannot abide, which is why we last of those brave Diggers pass are issuing a call to arms to the from this world, so too has the WA community to rally behind primary focus of RSLWA much our newer veterans and their evolved. families.
It’s why we’re drawing your We stand united to attention to the brave young men commemorate those who fell, and women who’ve returned while resolving to support those from conflicts in countries such who have come home. as Afghanistan, Iraq and East Timor. While most made it home, Lest We Forget. there are some who never truly
SUNSET SERVICES This year’s Sunset Service, which will be held the afternoon before ANZAC Day, will acknowledge the commitment, service and sacrifice 1700 hours of our men and women in contemporary conflicts around the world. Wednesday 24 April 2019 Since the first Gulf War in 1990-91, Australia has deployed service personnel to Cambodia, Somalia, Rwanda, Bougainville, East Timor / Timor Leste, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. Australia continues to provide support on numerous Peace-keeping operations, and closer to home, on Border Protection operations.
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DAWN SERVICE 0600 Thursday 25 April 2019 The Dawn Service will commence at the State War Memorial on Fraser Avenue in Kings Park at 0600. RSLWA recommends that participants St John’s Community arrive from 0400 onwards. Please note at 0550, the lights will go out and Transport Service all will be quiet as the Service begins. For those veterans and carers Public Transport between the coach terminus near who are unable to drive or get Wadjuk Way and the Vietnam War public transport to the Dawn Some travel delays may be Memorial at May Drive Parkland Service. This is available to experienced, so please plan your between 0425 and 0900 elderly, people with moderate journey and allow extra time to disabilities and their carers, who get to the Commemoration. It Travel on Transperth services on are able to aid themselves in and is recommended to take public ANZAC Day is complementary for all out of a normal sedan vehicle. transport to ANZAC Day events. current and past serving personnel. Places are extremely limited. Transperth will be running a special For further information on routes To book please call Cheryl and public transport schedules, event train and free shuttle bus Bushe- Jones 9334 1300 services (departing from Perth please visit transperth.wa.gov.au or Busport) to get you to Kings Park in call 13 62 13. Hearing or speech time for the Dawn Service. impaired? Call via NRS 133 677 and ask for 13 62 13. There will be a shuttle service (Route 621) in Kings Park operating
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GUNFIRE BREAKFAST & VEHICLE INFORMATION From 0700 - 0900 Thursday 25 April 2019
Supported by Rotary WA, the Gunfire Breakfast at Government House Gardens is open to all. Bacon and egg rolls with tea and Motorcycles in the Parade coffee will be served. For the first time, members of Military Jeeps & Land Rovers Motorcycle Clubs will conclude For elderly or infirm veterans, an open-air car experience for the Perth ANZAC Day Parade. The the March is available. Please contact Bruce McDougall on contingent of motorcycles will consist 9398 4050 or email [email protected] of members of The Veterans MC, the Patriots MC, The Military Brotherhood Veterans using this service will need to be dropped off at the MC and other ex-serving members. corner of Hay St and Victoria Ave by 0845. Form-up will be at Sherwood Court, Veterans’ Vehicles exiting along Riverside Drive. Parade riders will meet at a location For those who are unable to march, RSLWA offers a driver (to be specified) before riding to the collection service. A driver will pick you up from your home and form-up point. drive you to the March form up area, through the March and then back home after. If you are interested in participating please Please note, people applying for this free service must stay for contact Gary Scott on the Commemorative Service which finishes at noon. 0417 974 994 or at [email protected] For more information and to register please contact Cassandra Brennan 0402 845 459. [email protected]
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PROVISIONAL ORDER OF MARCH Thursday 25 April 2019 Senior Australian Defence Force RAN WWII Heavy Cruisers (HMAS F Presbyterian Ladies College No. 25 City of Perth Squadron Officers Canberra Assoc, HMAS Australia Pipes and Drums Branch Assoc Mounted Police Assoc, HMAS Shropshire Assoc) Royal Australia Regiment RAAF Police Assoc State Presidents’ of RSLWA, HMAS Darwin Banner Association WA Fire & Emergency Naval Assoc and RAAF Assoc RAN Communications Branch 1 RAR Services Concert Band Australian National Flags Assoc 2 RAR No. 3 Telecommunications Assoc New Zealand National Flags “N” Class Destroyers Assoc 2/4 RAR RAAF Ubon Assoc Tribal Class Destroyers Assoc 3 RAR RAAF Vietnam Veterans Assoc DEFENCE FORCES (HMAS Arunta, HMAS 4 RAR No 9 Squadron Assoc CONTINGENT Warramunga, HMAS Bataan) 5 RAR WRAAF Branch Assoc Royal Australian Navy Band 1A C Churchlands Senior High 5/7 RAR Western Australia TRI-SERVICE CONTINGENTS School (Band 1) 6 RAR Royal Australian Navy J Town of Victoria Park Brass RAN Clearance Divers Assoc Australian Army Band Perth Australian Army Band Perth Band Far East Strategic Reserve (Navy) 7 RAR Australian Army Australian Ex-Services Atomic Assoc 8 RAR Trinity College Pipes and Survivors Assoc Vietnam Logistics Support 8/9 RAR Drums and Coastal Scottish Vietnam Veterans Assoc Veterans Assoc (incl HMAS 9 RAR Pipe Band Perth Metro Pipe Band Sydney II) G Royal Australia Navy Band Royal Australian Air Force Honouring Indigenous War Defensively Equipped Merchant Western Australia 1B 7 Wing Air Force Cadet Graves Assoc Ships Assoc Combined Commandos Drum Corps (Band 1) Australian Peacekeeper & Tingira Association Squadron Assoc (incl 2/2 Australian Navy Cadets Peacemaker Veterans’ Assoc Commando Squadron) Australian Army Cadets ARMY SECTION Gulf War/Peacekeepers Assoc Australian Commando 7 Wing Air Force Cadet D Churchlands Senior High Defence Reserves Assoc Assocation Western Australia Drum Corps (Band 2) School (Band 2) National Servicemen’s’ Assoc Royal Western Australian 7 Wing Australian Air Force 6th Aust Division Cavalry Regiment Assoc (incl 16th Btn Cadets Regiment Assoc (WA) COMMONWEALTH & ALLIED Cameron Highlanders) WA Police Pipe Band Royal Australian Armoured Corps FORCES SECTION Australian SAS Assoc WA Police Assoc (WA Branch) K Churchlands Senior High Pilbara Regiment Assoc Police Rangers 1st Armoured Regiment Assoc School (Band 1 & 2) City of Cockburn Pipe Band WA Fire & Emergency 3rd Cavalry Regiment Assoc New Zealand Ex-Service Men and Australian Army Training Team Services Concert Band Royal Australian Armoured Corps Women Vietnam Assoc (AATTV) Department of Fire & Vietnam Veterans Assoc Ex-Royal New Zealand Navy HQ 1 Australian Task Force Emergency Services Royal Australian Artillery Assoc British Ex-Services Assoc Assoc Fire & Emergency Services of WA Royal Green Jackets Assoc 161 (Indep) Recce Flight Assoc Cadet Corps 101 Field Battery Assoc Airborne Forces Assoc of WA Australian Intelligence Corps 102 Field Battery Assoc North American Veterans’ Unit EX-SERVICE CONTINGENT Assoc (WA) 104 Field Battery Assoc Veterans of Foreign Wars A Perth Fortress Salvation Royal Australian Corps of Western Australian Wind Descendants of WWII Chinese Army Band Transport & Royal Australian Symphony Defence Force ADF serving since 1990 Army Service Corps Assoc 2/7th Field Regiment Artillery Greek Australian Ex-Servicemen’s WW1 Banners & Victoria Cross 1 Australian Field Hospital Assoc Assoc Assoc Recipient Banners Field Ambulance Assoc (incl 2/3rd Aust Composite AA Indian Defence Forces Assoc Escorted by Westralian Great War 2/13th) Regiment Assoc 7 Wing Air Force Cadets Drum Living History Assoc H City of Perth Brass Band RAE Ex-Servicemen’s Assoc Corps (Band 1) Legacy Wards Royal Australian Army Ordnance (Engineer Units) Korean Ex-Servicemen Assoc War Widows Guild Corps Assoc Royal Australian Survey Corps Polish Ex-Servicemen 2 Jeeps Royal Australian Electrical & Assoc Rhodesian Services Assoc of WA Mechanical Engineers Assoc 3 Veteran Carrying Cars Royal Australian Signals Assoc Incorporated Royal Australian Army Pay Corps 2/11th AIF Battalion Assoc South African Military Veterans NAVAL SECTION Assoc 2/16th AIF Battalion Assoc Organisation of Aust B Town of Victoria Park Military Police Assoc WA Sikh Band E 51 ACU Swan Regiment L Brass Band Royal Australian Army Nursing Drums & Pipes Sikh Ex-ServicemenTurkish Ex- Naval Assoc of Aust (WA) Corps Assoc 2/28th Battalion & 24th Anti-Tank Servicemen Section State Executive Women’s Royal Australian Army Coy Assoc Vietnamese Ex-Servicemen Naval Association of Australia WA Corps Assoc 2/32nd Battalion Assoc Relatives of Deceased Veterans WRANS-RAN Women’s Officer Training Unit Scheyville 2/43rd Battalion Assoc Scouts Association WA Australian Red Cross Assoc 48th & 2/48th Battalion Assoc Girl Guides Fleet Air Arm Assoc of Aust WA 2/3rd Machine Gunners Battalion 7 Wing Air Force Cadets Drum Division AIR FORCE SECTION Assoc Corps (Band 2) HMAS Perth National Assoc I WA Police Pipe Band 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion End of Marchers HMAS Brisbane Assoc Royal Australian Air Force Assoc Assoc M Veterans Motorcycle Clubs (Form HMAS Hobart Assoc 3 Squadron Assoc 13th Brigade AIF Group (16th up in Sherwood Court) HMAS Sydney Assoc Pathfinders Assoc AIF Battalion Assoc, 11th AIF Perth Metro Pipe Band Bomber Command Veterans Battalion, 28th, 44th Battalion Assocs)
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PARADE MAP HAY ST MALL 0900 Thursday 25 April 2019 The parade will start from the corner of Barrack MURRAY ST Street and St Georges Terrace, dispersing on L I F C Langley Park, where there will be a sausage K H E B 1A sizzle provided by the Salvation Army. HAY ST J G D A Form Up 1B 2 VICTORIA • Participants/Marches – Corner of Barrack S UARE St and St Georges Terrace dispersing on M Langley Park. WILLIAM ST AVE PIER ST 3 CATHEDRAL • Jeeps and Land Rovers – Hay St HOWARD ST (between Pier St and Irwin St) dispersing outside of the Perth Concert Hall. THE STIRLING COUNCIL IRWIN ST ESPLANADE SHERWOOD CT GARDENS HOUSE ST GEORGES TERRACE HAY ST • Veteran’s Vehicles - Corner of Barrack St and St Georges Terrace dispersing behind GOVERNMENT HOUSE SALUTING DAIS Perth Concert Hall. GEOFFREY BOLTON AVE G n re SUPREME COURT Bre t OF WESTERN 7 m 9 m JEEP PARK VICTORIA AVE Any vehicles attending the parade must stay AUSTRALIA until the completion of the Commemorative BARRACK ST Service at noon. ELI ABETH ADELAIDE PERTH TERRACE UAY CONCERT HALL Commemor t ve LEGEND SUPREME Serv e 11 00 m COURT HOSPITAL Route Motorbikes GARDENS VEHICLES PARK
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Toilets LANGLEY PARK Disabled Toilets Tables & Chairs
Lost Persons Sausage Sizzle
Lost & Found Form Up Area (Please refer to Order of March)
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ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATIVE SERVICE 1100 Thursday 25 April 2019 For the second year, the 2019 2. By walking westward along The program will include the ANZAC Day Commemorative Terrace Road, then up onto Salvation Army Perth Fortress Service will be held at Perth steps leading to the venue. Band and the ANZAC Day Choir, Concert Hall. The service will Walk towards the Government brought together from the Perth start at 1100 and be broadcast House Garden side and enter Modern School Chamber Choirs live by the ABC. Access to the through external venue doors. and Perth Modern School Alumni venue, from Langley Park, can be Singers. approached in two ways: 3. For those patrons in wheelchairs and with This is a free community event, 1. Walking up Victoria Avenue mobility aids, access is but tickets are essential. before turning left onto St best approached via the St If you are interested in getting a George’s Terrace. From The George’s Terrace forecourt ticket, visit our website at Duxton Hotel, walk across to ramp-way and in through www.rslwa.org.au, contact the Concert Hall forecourt and external venue doors. The [email protected], through the external venue Concert Hall lift takes patrons or phone 9287 3799. doors. to any of the Concert Hall foyer levels. ANZAC DAY EVENTS: METROPOLITAN AREA ASCOT Bassendean War Memorial, BELMONT April 14th Guildford Road, Bassendean. April 25 1400: City of Belmont ANZAC Contact: Ashley Vince 0530: City of Belmont War Service, 22 Leake Street, Ascot. M: 0428 788 703 Memorial. Faulkner Park, Contact: Yvonne Richardson [email protected] Cloverdale. On Completion T: 0417 174 637 Gunfire Breakfast available at [email protected] BAYSWATER 22 Leake St, Ascot for $5. April Contact: Yvonne Richardson BALLAJURA 0600: Dawn Service to be held M: 0417 174 637 April 25 at Halliday Park, Coode St, [email protected] 0600: Dawn Service, Ballajura Bayswater. Community Peace Park, Illawarra Contact: Ashley Vince BELLEVUE Crescent South, Ballajura. M: 0428 788 703 April 25 Contact: Michael Clarke 1210: March assemble at T: (08) 9206 5402 BEDFORD - MORLEY Helen Street Hall. M: 0421 056 533 April 21 1215: March off. [email protected] 1400: ANZAC Service, 1230: ANZAC Day Service, Rodney Cocbertson Remembrance Park, corner of Bellevue RSL Hall, 2 Purton T: (08) 9249 8992 Beaufort Street and Salisbury Place, Bellevue. On completion Street. On completion, light lunch is provided and liquid BASSENDEAN entertainment and refreshments, refreshments are available. April 25 Bedford RSL Sub-Branch Hall, Two-up is played outdoors. 1030: Gather & form up behind 182 Grand Promenade, Bedford. Parking is available adjacent to Bassendean Hotel for March. Street parking only. and opposite the RSL 1045: Parade steps off. Sub-Branch and in the car park 1100: Memorial Service,
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: METROPOLITAN AREA opposite the Midland Workshops COCKBURN DAWESVILLE Peace Memorial. April 11 April 25 Contact: Roy Jewell 0945: 1,500 students assemble 0600: Dawn Service, Dawesville M: 0409 294 213 in Coleville Crescent and War Memorial, Estuary Drive. [email protected] proceed into Spearwood 0700: Gunfire Breakfast, Avenue, Spearwood to the RSL Port Bouvard Recreation and BICTON-PALMYRA Memorial Park and Field of Sporting Club, 1 Thisbe Drive. April 25 Poppies. RSL Members that are Dawn Service parking at 0600: Dawn Service, Bicton- capable are invited to march Dawesville boat ramp and Palmyra RSL Sub-Branch, 30B alongside the students to the along Estuary Road. Wheelchair Foss Street, Bicton. Memorial Park. accessible Memorial and toilets. 0700: Gunfire Breakfast, 1030: Service commences. Gunfire Breakfast parking at Port Bicton-Palmyra RSL Sub-Branch, There is a small car park in Bouvard Recreation & Sporting 30B Foss Street, Bicton. Spearwood Avenue and there Club, also Estuary Road car 1230: Finger food provided. is plenty of parking available park, adjacent PBR & SC. 1400-1800: Live entertainment, in Sussex Street, Spearwood – Contact: Fred Abbott Band - “Twice Shy”. near the Memorial Park. M: 0447 720 076 Parking opposite the Sub-Branch [email protected] April 25 behind McDonald’s. The Sub- 0530: Dawn Service. City of Branch is wheelchair friendly. Cockburn War Memorial, corner GOSNELLS Contact: Kevin Hastie April 25 of Rockingham Road and T: (08) 9339 6401 0600: Assemble at Coles car Carrington Street, Hamilton Hill. [email protected] park, Gosnells City Centre. Members and guests are invited 0630: March off to Gosnells to the “Gunfire” Breakfast at the CANNINGTON Civic. Centre Memorial. Sub-branch after the Service. April 25 0700: Service commences. 0950: ANZAC Parade assembles 0600: Dawn Service. RSL Rose 0800: Gunfire Breakfast. in the RSL car park, 73 Frederick Garden Memorial. Parking available at Coles. Road, Hamilton Hill. 0630-0730: Gun Fire Breakfast. Contact: Fred Batt 1030: ANZAC Day Gold Coin Donation. M: 0419 040 820 Commemoration Service 0730: Muster for March. T: (08) 9398 1661 commences at the City of 0745: The local Community [email protected] Cockburn War Memorial. Road Honorary March and Ceremony closures around the Memorial at the Memorial, in the Civic will be in place from 0500-0700 GREENMOUNT Centre Park on Carden Street, April 24 and again between 0950 to behind the City of Canning 1715: Sunset Service and 1130. offices, Albany Hwy, Cannington. Wreath Laying, Blackboy There is parking available at Members and guests will return Hill Commemorative Site, various points near the War to the Sub-Branch. Greenmount. Memorial and the Memorial Hall, 0900: Bar will open. Parking available at Greenmount ensure that you are parked prior 1000: Morning tea. Primary School car park. Event is to the road closures. There is 1100: Two-Up. wheelchair friendly. parking available in the park area 1300: Lunch available for a gold at the corner of Hamilton Road coin donation. and Rockingham Road. After the Parking at the rear of the Sub- Services parking is available at Branch. The area is secure and the Sub-Branch. is wheelchair friendly.
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: METROPOLITAN AREA April 25 1200: Refreshments at RSL Hall, Contact: Jason Hiscock 0600: Dawn Service & Canning Road, Kalamunda. M: 0407 932 390 Wreath Laying, Blackboy Hill [email protected] April 25 Commemorative Site. 0545: Assemble at Kostera Oval On completion light Memorial. MANDURAH refreshments available. April 25 0600: Dawn Service. 0555: Call to Order. 0630: Gunfire Breakfast, 0600: Dawn Service, Mandurah GUILDFORD Agricultural Hall in Kostera Oval. April 25 War Memorial, 11 Leighton Disabled parking in Kostera 0900: A Service will be held at Place, Halls Head. Oval or Kalamunda RSL at Stirling Square, Guildford 0645: Gunfire Breakfast at City front and rear. General parking Contact: Ashley Vince of Mandurah Sub-Branch, 20-22 at Kalamunda RSL, Kostera M: 0428 788 703 Rouse Road Greenfields. Oval, Kalamunda Senior High [email protected] 0930: Parade forms up at the School, Kalamunda shopping corner of Pinjarra Road and precinct and street parking Leslie Street JOONDALUP allowed except on Canning Rd April 25 1030: Parade steps off. near Kostera Oval. Canning 0545: Dawn Service, Joondalup 1100: Main Service, Mandurah Rd will be blocked off between Memorial, Central Park, War Memorial, 11 Leighton Kalamunda Senior High School Joondalup. Place, Halls Head. On and Recreation Rd. 0630: Morning Tea. completion Veterans and Contact: Chris Hannah Street parking is available in members of the public are M: 0401 146 807 addition to Lakeside Joondalup invited back to the City of [email protected] shopping centre nearby. The Mandurah RSL for Fellowship venue is wheelchair accessible KWINANA and Two-Up. The City of and seating will be available for Mandurah RSL is located at April 25 incapacitated. 20-22 Rouse Road Greenfields. 0530: Gather for Dawn Service Contact: Bruce McDonald Parking is available on Hall at Kwinana War Memorial Park, M: 0417 986 006 Park, adjacent to the Mandurah Pace Road, Medina. joondalupcityrslsecretary@ War Memorial and off Leighton 0600: Dawn Service begins. gmail.com Street. Access parking is 0630: Gunfire Breakfast at available for those with ACROD Medina Hall. stickers. Members of the KALAMUNDA 1030: March from Hoyle Road, April 20 Mandurah SES will be directing Medina. 1030: Assemble at the rear of parking. If parking at the RSL is 1100: ANZAC Day Service, War Thai on the Hill, Kalamunda. full then parking will be available Memorial, Pace Road, Medina. 1100: March on Railway Rd into across the road at Gilberts Fresh On completion light lunch will Haynes St then left into Canning Food. be available at the Kwinana Rd to the War Memorial in Contact: Teresa Williams Sub-Branch hall at 27 Pace Rd, Kostera Oval. T: (08) 9581 4781 Medina. 1130: Service held at Memorial [email protected] Parking available at Medina shop in Kostera Oval. precinct and Senior Citizens car park Harlow Road. Disabled parking at rear of the monument on Pace Road.
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: METROPOLITAN AREA MIDLAND MOUNT LAWLEY NORTH BEACH April 25 April 25 April 25 0830: ANZAC Day memorial 0615: Assemble, Lawley 0530: Assemble at the Memorial, service, Midland Railway Masonic Village, 55 Alexander Charles Riley Reserve, North Workshops Peace Memorial. Drive, Menora. Beach for the Dawn Service. On completion morning tea 0630: Commencement of On completion Gunfire Breakfast available. Service. at North Beach Bowling Club, 7 0730: Free Sausage Sizzle, near Kitchener Street, North Beach. MT HAWTHORN Mt Lawley Cenotaph. Parking at Charles Riley Oval April 25 0745: Assemble, Mt Lawley and North Beach Primary 1000: Assemble at the corner Cenotaph, corner of Clifton School. The Memorial precinct is of Flinders St and Scarborough Street & Queens Crescent. wheelchair friendly. Beach Rd. 0800: Commencement of Contact: Trevor McEntyre 1030: ANZAC Day March, Axford Service. M: 0447 730 911 Park, 129 Scarborough Beach 0845: Sit-down Gunfire [email protected] Road, Mt Hawthorn. Breakfast, Mt Lawley Bowling 1105: ANZAC Day Club, Cnr Storthes & Rookwood OCEAN REEF Commemorative Service. Street, Mt Lawley. April 25 The venue is wheelchair friendly Roads closed from 7.30am. 0545: Dawn Service, Ocean with only local street parking Clifton Crescent is closed at Reef Sports Club, Harbour available. both Glenroyd Street and Lawley Quays, Ocean Reef. Contact: David Millar Crescent. Queens Crescent 0630: Gunfire Breakfast T: (08) 9243 4491 closure is from Storthes Street continues until bar closing. [email protected] and Vale Street. 0730: Two up. Contact: Oliver Lovelle JP 0900: Pop-up bar opens. M: 0409 898 806 Plenty of parking is available [email protected] at the Ocean Reef Marina. Limited ACROD Parking is available within the Ocean Reef Sea Sports Club car park. The venue is wheelchair accessible and seating will be available for incapacitated. Contact: Bruce McDonald M: 0417 986 006 joondalupcityrslsecretary@ gmail.com
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: METROPOLITAN AREA QUINNS ROCKS SCARBOROUGH Contact: John Lochore April 25 April 24 M: 0424 553 041 0545: Arrival, Quinns Rocks 1800: Vigil, by 1 Wembley [email protected] Sports & Social Club, Tapping Downs Scout Group at Cr Way, Quinns Rocks. Shearn Crescent and Millcrest SOUTH PERTH 0600: Dawn Service. St, Doubleview. April 25 0700: Gunfire Breakfast. 0700: ANZAC Day Service, April 25 Parking available at Quinns South Perth Memorial Gardens, 0600: Vigil, by 1 Wembley Rocks Sports & Social Club, Corner of South Terrace & Downs Scout Group concludes. Tapping Way, Quinns Rocks and Sandgate Street, South Perth. Participants retire. at Gumblossom Community On completion morning tea will 1500: Slow March of Scout Centre, Gumblossom Way, be available after the service in Catafalque Party to Memorial, Quinns Rocks. the Council Hall. Scarborough RSL Sub-Branch Contact: Elaine Ballard Parking is available on the oval Memorial Garden, Shearn M: 0426 717 427 in Sandgate Street next to the Crescent & Millcrest Street, [email protected] Council offices. Wheelchair Doubleview. Commemorative access available. Service will then take place. Contact: Kerry Fisher ROCKINGHAM On completion afternoon tea at April 25 T: (08) 9355 0134 adjacent Bowling Club Hall. 0545: Dawn Service at [email protected] Substantial parking in grounds of Cenotaph, Flinders Lane. Bowling Club and Bennett Park 1000: March/Form up in front SUBIACO next door. More street parking of Churchill Park, Rockingham April 25 around Bennett Park on all four Beach Road. 0800: Assemble outside sides. 1030: March step off. Subiaco Post Office (Rokeby Contact: Malcolm F. Till 1100: Main service at Cenotaph, Road). T: (08) 9341 5416 Village Green. Street Parking available and [email protected] Parking access to Flinders Lane, wheelchair friendly. Rockingham Beach Road, Kent SHENTON PARK Street and Rail Terrace will close April 25 from 0900 until 1200, therefore, 0645: Parade assembles at the limited parking available on the corner of King St and Onslow foreshore. Rd, Shenton Park. Catch 555 Bus from Railway 0700: Service held outside Station or Shopping Centre to the Shenton Park Community Foreshore area. Centre, 240 Onslow Rd, Shenton Contact: Ian Brook Park. On completion morning tea M: 0437 109 632 served in the Centre following [email protected] the service. Parking is available on the surrounding streets although a road closure will be in place around the Community Centre prior to and following the service. Wheelchair access is available.
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: REGIONAL AREA ALBANY 1130: Refreshments available Contact: Colin Hales April 24 at the Golf Club, St Georges St, M: 0417 18 0720 1400: St John’s Church service Bakers Hill. [email protected] followed by wreath laying, Ode, Parking available near the shops Last Post, silence and Rouse, close to Hooper Park. BROOKTON Kapyong Day Service WWI Contact: Lin Booth April 25 Memorial, York Street, Albany. M: 0428 612 480 0545: Dawn Service, Memorial ANZAC Day – April 25 [email protected] Park, Brookton Highway, 0315: Dawn Service, Mt Brookton. Please bring a torch Clarence, Video link to Albany BOULDER to read the programme. On Entertainment Centre (AEC). April 25 completion Gunfire Breakfast, Free shuttle bus service to Mt 0600: Dawn Service, Loopline Brookton RSL Sub-Branch, Clarence. Note: No private Park, Boulder. Robinson Road, Brookton. vehicles or pedestrians. 0700: Gunfire Breakfast, Boulder 1015: Form up, Brookton Fire 0530: Dawn service Ex-Servicemen’s Club, 87 Piesse Station. commences. Shuttle buses Street, Boulder. 1030: Commemorative return to AEC and Middleton 0900: ANZAC March through Service, Memorial Park, Beach. Burt Street to Loopline Park. Brookton Highway, Brookton. 0630: Gunfire Breakfast, AEC, Assemble at Ex Serviceman’s On completion morning tea at gold coin donation. Club. Brookton Fire Station. 0930: March assemble, Cnr York 0930: Service at Loopline Park. 1230: Diggers Cup at the Street and Gray Street West. Parking available at Ex Brookton Country Club. 1000: March commences, South Serviceman’s Club carpark. Burt All events are wheelchair down York Street to ANZAC Street or Loopline Park all have accessible. Peace Park. available parking. Contact: Carina Whittington 1030: Memorial Service, ANZAC M: 0448 663 730 Peace Park. BOYUP BROOK [email protected] ACROD parking available April 25 adjacent to A¬NZAC Peace 0530: Dawn Service, Boyup BUNBURY Park, marshals will direct public Brook War Memorial, Abel April 25 parking which is available in Street. On completion Gunfire 0430: Tea, Coffee and ANZAC car parks on Eastern side of Breakfast, Boyup Brook Town Biscuits, Bunbury RSL Sub- AEC. No seating available at Mt Hall, Boyup Brook. Branch, 19 Spencer Street, Clarence Dawn service. 1015: March, assemble outside Bunbury. Contact: President, Geoff old Commonwealth Bank, 0545: Assemble, RSL Sub- McNeill Abel Street. Branch. M: 0427 417 662 1040: March to Memorial. 0550: March to Memorial, War [email protected] 1045: Memorial Service Memorial, ANZAC Park, Stirling commences. Street. BAKERS HILL On completion morning tea, 0600: Wreath laying and Service, April 25 Boyup Brook Town Hall, Boyup War Memorial, ANZAC Park, 1030: Assemble, Hooper Park, Brook. Stirling Street. Great Eastern Highway, Parking is available at Council 0630: March back to RSL Hall Bakers Hill. car park located at the back of for refreshments and sausage 1045: Commencement of the Town Hall - Cowley Street, sizzle. ANZAC Ceremony. plus the corner of Able Street & Inglis Street.
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: REGIONAL AREA Parking at the rear of the Refreshments served back at 1030: Morning Tea for the Public Bunbury RSL Sub-Branch and RSL Hall (all invited). in the Village Hall. Coles Bunbury Centrepoint. 1200: Family and Two-Up at Street Parking available on 0830: Wreath laying and Service, Sub-Branch Garden area. Thomas Street and Memorial Rathmines War Memorial, Alongside Memorial Park and Avenue. Wheelchair access to Austral Parade, Bunbury. across at the Old Information Village Green and War Memorial. 1030: March fall in, Bunbury RSL building next to Senior Citizens Toilet facilities available on Sub-Branch, 19 Spencer Street, building. Wheelchair friendly. Village Green and close to War Bunbury. Following the service, parking Memorial. 1045: March to Graham Bricknell is available in the Sub-Branch Contact: Ian Johnstone Music Shell, Blair Street, parking area (limited) plus M: 0413 746 405 Bunbury. parking across the road from the [email protected] 1100: Wreath laying and Service. RSL Hall. 1200: March back to RSL Hall. COLLIE-CARDIFF 1230: Light snacks and a social CAPEL April 25 afternoon. Admission charge April 25 0540: Dawn Service, Soldiers at the door, Bunbury RSL Sub- 0600: Dawn Service, Peppermint Memorial Park, Corner of Steere Branch, 19 Spencer Street, Grove Beach foreshore. and Johnson Streets, Collie. Bunbury. 0700: Gunfire Breakfast, 1030: Form up at Coles carpark Parking at the rear of the Peppermint Grove Community for March. Bunbury RSL Sub-Branch and Centre. 1100: Main Service, Soldiers Coles Bunbury Centrepoint. 1030: March form up, Forrest Memorial Park, Corner of Steere Contact: John Gelmi Road Capel, at Post Office. and Johnson Streets, Collie. On T: (08) 9721 3277 1045: Step off. completion Fellowship, Collie M: 0478 120 848 1100: Service, RSL Hall, 7 RSL Sub-Branch, Cnr Throssell [email protected] Forrest Road Capel. & Lefroy Streets, Collie. 1200: Refreshments at RSL Hall. Contact: Graham Old BUSSELTON Contact: Lyn McMahon M: 0429 406 353 April 25 M: 0427 777 701 [email protected] 0545: Dawn Service, Busselton [email protected] Memorial, Queen and Albert CUNDERDIN Streets, Busselton. CHIDLOW April 25 On completion Gunfire Breakfast April 25 1100: Service commences at at RSL Hall, 10 Rosemary Drive. 0800: Gunfire Breakfast, Village Cunderdin War Memorial, Main 0845: Form up for march bottom Green, Thomas Street, Chidlow. Street. of Queen St. 0915: ANZAC Day March Contact: Christine Fulwood 0900: Parade step off for march – Memorial Avenue to War M: 0417 175 266 through Main St of Busselton. Memorial on the Village Green. [email protected] 0915: Service starts at the 0930: ANZAC DAY Service at Busselton War Memorial. 1100: the War Memorial on the Village Green.
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: REGIONAL AREA DONNYBROOK On completion Gunfire 1200: The Sub-Branch will be April 25 Breakfast, Kalgoorlie Ex- open for Two-Up. 0600: Dawn Service, War Servicemen’s Club, Dugan The location of the memorial Memorial, APEX Park, South Street. is next to the Kambalda Club, West Highway, followed by 1045: Fall in opposite (sometimes referred to as the Gunfire Breakfast at the Soldiers St Barbara’s Square for bowling club). The front of the Memorial Hall, Bentley Street. Commemorative March along Club is located on Larkin Street, 0915: Main Service, form up, Hannan and Wilson Streets to which has parking available, at Ayers Gardens, South West War Memorial. and the rear of the Club can be Highway. 1130: Commemorative Service, accessed from New Clayton 0930: March to RSL Memorial at Kalgoorlie War Memorial (next Street. There is parking available Park. to Railway Station). at the rear of the Club. Contact: Ric Evans On completion refreshments, Contact: Allan Lindup M: 0427 319 788 Kalgoorlie Ex-Servicemen’s Club, M: 0402 812 222 [email protected] Dugan Street. [email protected] Limited parking at Kalgoorlie ESPERANCE War Memorial. Parking in streets MANJIMUP April 25 nearby. April 25 0530: Dawn Service Assemble, Contact: Robyn Steenbach 0600: Dawn Service, War Esperance Post Office. M: 0410 549 946 Memorial, Giblett Street, 0550: Dawn Service step-off. [email protected] Manjimup. 0600: Dawn Service, Memorial 0700: Gunfire Breakfast at the Park, Dempster St. KAMBALDA Sub-Branch Hall, 10 Brockman 1030: Main Service Assemble, April 25 St. Haslams Carpark. 0545: Assemble for Dawn 1045: March to memorial begins 1045: Main Service step-off. Service. at the Memorial Gates junction 1100: Main Service, Memorial 0600: Dawn Service begins. of Brockman and Moore Streets. Park, Dempster St. There will be a wreath laying, 1045: Morning Memorial Service, Parking along the street. Please an address by the Sub-Branch War Memorial, Giblett Street, avoid parking on Dempster ST president, followed by a flag Manjimup. between Andrew St and James ceremony. On completion, 1200: Gather at RSL Hall for St. Wheelchair Friendly Gunfire Breakfast. drinks. Contact: Shelly Giles 1030: People will assemble at 1330: Two up. M: 0419 380 095 the old fire station for a march to Parking in Giblett and Brockman esperancersl.secretary@gmail. the memorial. Streets. Sites are wheelchair com 1100: Commemorative Service friendly. with wreath laying, an address Contact: Edward (Ted) Middleton KALGOORLIE by the Sub-Branch president, M: 0429 401 016 April 25 flag ceremony and then a short [email protected] 0600: Dawn Service, Kalgoorlie march past to conclude. War Memorial (next to Railway Station).
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: REGIONAL AREA NANNUP NORTHAM NORTHAMPTON April 25 April 24 April 25 0550: Assemble at War 1800: Sunset Service at Northam 0555: March off. Memorial, Warren Road. Memorial Hall, Fitzgerald St. 0600: Dawn Service. On 0600: Dawn Service, Nannup Completion breakfast available. April 25 War Memorial. 1100: Main Commemorative 0600: Dawn Service, Northam 0645: Gunfire Breakfast, RSL Service. On completion light Memorial Hall. Hall. luncheon and raffles. 0630: Gunfire Breakfast, 1050: Assemble for main march 1200: Two-Up at Miners Arms Northam Memorial Hall. adjacent to Anglican Church. Hotel 1020: March form up off Grey St. 1100: Main service, War Parking both in the main street 1100: Service at Northam Memorial. and IGA carpark. Memorial Hall. 1145: Refreshments, RSL Hall. Contact: Margaret Meagher 1130: Light refreshments. Parking available at Grange M: 0429 667 778 Heaps of parking. Wheelchair Road opposite Bridge Café, [email protected] friendly. Forrest Street West and between Contact: Luis Lim Warren Road and Jephson M: 0437 780 992 Street, Jephson Street behind [email protected] Nannup Real Estate and Cross Street opposite RSL Hall. Wheelchair friendly. Contact: Charlie Ferguson M: 0498 007 828 charles.ferguson7@bigpond. com
NARROGIN April 25 0530: Assemble for Dawn Service, Memorial Park, Williams Road, Narrogin. 0550: Dawn Service commences. 0940: Assemble for March at Egerton St. 1000: ANZAC Service. Parking is available on the north side of Williams Road and in Fortune Street. Memorial Park is wheelchair-friendly. Contact: Lorraine Larment T: (08) 9881 25533 [email protected]
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ANZAC DAY EVENTS: REGIONAL AREA PINJARRA THREE SPRINGS WALPOLE April 25 April 25 April 25 0530: Dawn Service, Pinjarra 0730: Assemble at Carnamah 1050: March participants gather War Memorial, Pinjarra Road. War Memorial, McPherson Street at the Walpole Recreation Centre 0605: Gunfire Breakfast at for the Dawn Service. car park. Pinjarra RSL Sub-Branch, 1889 1030: Assemble at Shire 1100: Service commences at the Pinjarra Road, Pinjarra. Chambers for the march to Jack Walpole Memorial, next to the 1045: ANZAC Day March, from Thorpe Gardens, Three Springs. Community Hall. On completion George Street to Pinjarra War Roadside parking and light refreshments available at Memorial, Pinjarra Road. wheelchair friendly at both the Community Hall after the 1100: ANZAC Day Service, venues. Service. Pinjarra War Memorial, Pinjarra Contact: Ray Morgan Parking is readily available Road. T: (08) 9954 1014 nearby. Parking available at Pinjarra RSL [email protected] Contact: Kevin Pierce Sub-Branch. M: 0429 964 560 Contact: Sue O’Donnell WAGIN [email protected] [email protected] April 25 0615: Dawn Service, Wagin War WONGAN HILLS QUAIRADING Memorial. April 25 April 25 1040: Assemble, car park 0530: Dawn Service begins at 1100: Service at Shire Memorial, opposite Wagin RSL. 5.45am sharp, Wongan Hills War Main Street, Quairading. 1050: March to Memorial. Memorial, Wongan Hills Civic Ample Parking at Memorial and 1100: Service commences. Centre, Parker Place. Followed Main Street. 1200: Light lunch and by a Gunfire Breakfast, Civic Contact: Eugene Stone refreshments at the local pool. Centre. M: 0429 645 121 Plenty of parking. Parking available in the Civic [email protected] Contact: Greg Brockway Centre precinct. M: 0417 965 573 [email protected] WYNDHAM April 25 0510: Dawn Service at Bastion Five Rivers Lookout, Wyndham, followed by Gunfire Breakfast. Contact: Dick Daniels M: 0439 038 550 [email protected]
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 25 To those from Australia and New PHILLIPE AND HIS Zealand, ANZAC Day represents the sacrifices of the brave men and women who came before us. It is a ANZAC day of respect, commemoration and BISCUITS time to consider the ordeals that those in the Armed Forces By Hayley Barclay face.
26 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au So now I bid the question: what “So I plunged into the history the Battle of Loos en Gohelle; does ANZAC Day mean to those of the ANZACs and it became unfortunately none of them were who aren’t from Australia or New a drug,” he told me. Philippe’s commemorated. The English, Zealand? I always pondered on obsession with learning more Scottish, Canadian and Irish this idea. Does a day that is of and more about the ANZACs were all recognised – but not the such importance to me have any led to him becoming the Diggers. meaning to those who weren’t ambassador for the French leg brought up to recognise it? This of the ‘Fallen Diggers,’ a team Philippe seeks to change this question was answered when I dedicated to finding those lost and is now always present at learned of a French gentleman on the battlefields. the various commemoration who truly understands the ceremonies. On ANZAC Day, significance of the day. Philippe’s dive into history led Philippe goes to the dawn to the discovery that Australians service at Villers-Bretonneux as Phillipe Clerbout is a sweet and fought in two of the villages well at the afternoon service at gracious 55 year-old who has a close to him – Fromelles and Bullecourt. He attends these love for history. He is passionate Bullecourt, as well as the city services with a freshly baked about returning military of Loos en Gohelle where 3 batch of ANZAC biscuits, identification plates that are ATC fought. He also found that offering them to Australians found on the beaches or in the Australians had fought in the present. fields of France to their families. villages of Givenchy La Bassée It was through this passion that and Cuinchy, the latter being “I use a traditional recipe to he found the identification plate the birthplace of Philippe. It’s make my biscuits; but my secret of Private Cyril Michael McCarthy not just the proximity to these is to make the biscuits with a of the 33rd Battalion about four battles that fascinated Philippe lot of love.” He offers these years ago. He returned the plate however, it was the stories of the delicious treats to the Aussies to the grandson of Private Cyril soldiers and their values that so as his way of thanking them for McCarthy. resonated with his own. being there.
Many of the 3ATC soldiers So if you ever find yourself in came from Western Australia France for ANZAC Day, keep an and many of them were lost in eye out for dear Phillipe and his delicious ANZAC biscuits.
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 27 ANZAC Day By HS Kilpatrick, 1956
Forty one years ago today in Adelaide hospital I lay, on my back, on the first great ANZAC Day. What did I care for the bursting shell, or the foremen’s guns with the roar of hell? With an aching body in pain I lay, just forty one years ago today.
Forty one years ago today, the skies were to me both dull and grey and I thought of the battles far away. Which soon in a land the sun shines red on, would merge me in throes of Armageddon: my militant mind cast care away, just forty one years ago today.
Forty one years ago today but soon where the mighty mammals play, ablaze with the ancient heroes zeal, to put in the tumult steel to steel, how little I knew what the years would say just forty one years ago today.
Just forty one years ago today but I saw at last the land so red, where the crimson poppies glory shed, and the pure white marguerites like snow set the fields alight with a dazzling glow, t’was floral beauty and bright array. Just forty one years ago today.
Just forty one years ago today, but since that Adelaide bed I’ve seen, both storm and calm and all between, marching through mud and blood and snow, I grappled death as a slimy foe, but I’m not the same as I was I know. Just forty one years ago today.
28 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au THE LAST ANZAC DAY SERVICE ON THE AUSTRALIAN MAINLAND
By Anne Chapple, Secretary of Friends of ANZAC Cottage
The reverence and One of these people is Michael Smith, the guest speaker at the respect for those who to 6pm on the day. A popular Friends of ANZAC Cottage’s annual activity on the day, a gave their lives during Sunset Service at the Cottage free wreath making workshop on ANZAC Day. Michael, who wars and conflicts for children that commences served in both the Eastern States has not in any way at 4pm, allows the younger and on deployment to East Timor generation to participate in a diminished. Through as an ARA Parachute Rigger, has meaningful way to the Sunset our observation of developed an interesting initiative Service, when they lay their which will not only assist veterans anniversaries of carefully created wreaths at the but also play an important role in battles and events flagpole during the service. protecting native fauna. over recent years, it’s As John F Kennedy, Former This program involves taking arguably grown. President of the United States, small groups of ex-servicemen said, ”Children are the living and women to South Africa What has changed is the growing messages we send into a time where they work with a not- awareness of the challenges and we will not see.” It is crucial that for-profit organisation called issues faced by those who have we ensure that they are provided International Coalition of Rhino survived these experiences. with the knowledge and beliefs Protection to assist in the training They have returned home to that they can carry into the future. face a rapidly changing world of local park rangers to protect and, in some cases, a difficult native fauna. This work, in saving The Sunset Service, the last transition from life in the services and protecting the endangered ANZAC service conducted on the to ‘civvy’ life. iconic wild animals, not only Australian mainland, commences assists in developing skills and at 5:15pm and the public is The growth in organisations knowledge but offers a special welcome to attend, to lay a and individuals, often with a ‘healing’ experience for those wreath and encouraged to bring background in the services struggling with mental issues. their own chair if required. themselves who are working to address these issues and The Friends of ANZAC Cottage This event is sponsored by provide a range of experiences to offers a number of varied assist those who are struggling, experiences on ANZAC Day, is most welcome. with the Cottage open from 3pm
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 29 THEATRE REVIEW
MIMMA A musical of war & friendship
The struggle against Nazism by Sarah in Lorenzo’s in the Second World War is nightclub are infused the backdrop for the musical, with swinging wartime MIMMA, premiering at the Regal jazz rhythms, full of Theatre, April 9-21. poignancy and the incorrigible optimism We follow a young Italian which fortified Britons journalist who must flee Turin against the Luftwaffe. to stay at her Uncle Lorenzo’s nightclub in London. As Mimma Mimma is played forms a friendship with jazz- by soprano Mirusia, singer Sarah, we experience the whose exquisite voice atmosphere of foreboding which has graced Andre gripped London in the period Rieu’s concerts between the Munich Crisis and for ten years. She Mussolini’s declaration of war. is supported by We also follow the tribulations some of Australia’s of Mimma’s family, who engage foremost opera in anti-fascist journalism as the singers, Suzanne
Blackshirts’ tactics become Kompass, Jason Soprano Mirusia more oppressive. War pervades Barry-Smith and Brendan every aspect of life in both cities, Hanson. Holly Meegan plays Inspired by true stories of the and a dramatic turn of events Mimma’s vivacious Soho Italian Resistance, the fortitude brings Hitler’s U-boat war into friend, with the support of a of Londoners in the months the lives of civilians. cast blending experience and preceding the Blitz and the Battle youthful exuberance, directed by Ron Siemiginowski’s music and of Britain, and the role played by Adam Mitchell. Sean O’Boyle’s orchestration entertainers in the fight against beautifully evoke the historical Designer Bryan Woltjen’s tyranny, MIMMA celebrates settings of Giles Watson’s genius for evocative costuming the bond of friendship and the libretto. The Italian scenes and staging brings authentic triumph of the human spirit over include songs inspired by representations of wartime cities brutality. rhumba and the operatic arias of to the Perth stage. Puccini, whilst the songs sung
30 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 31 ADDRESS BY WA GOVERNOR KIM BEAZLEY AT THE REMEMBRANCE DAY 2018 WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY
All of us here are performing a sacred duty. Our forbears promised our servicemen and women, particularly those who perished, they would never be forgotten. We uphold that promise today.
I was in Albany earlier this week November 11, 100 years ago, where more than 2000 kids the guns went silent. The 10 marched down York Street for minutes before, they were In many ways, we just made the Cross and Bell Ceremony anything but. Americans for it. We have never been as for the Combined Schools example, on one part of the influential on the world stage as Centenary Commemoration of front fired off all their remaining we were in 1918. Under General Armistice. The Premier told me ammunition. A British machine Monash, the Australian Army that 104 years ago, his Great gunner at 2 minutes to 11 fired a Corp developed new ways of Uncle marched down York whole belt, stood up, took off his fighting which broke the trench Street, then to Lone Pine, and helmet, bowed to the German warfare model of bloody attrition from there to eternity. trenches and walked slowly back and stalemate. We substituted to his lines. movement and firepower for Apart from specialist elements, substantial numbers of men. Australians weren’t at the front. We were critical in the defensive We had been withdrawn to refit battles at the beginning of the five weeks earlier when, in a year, which broke the last major series of battles, we had broken German throw of the dice. Then, the main German defence in August we were the spear line, The Hindenburg Line. In point of the counter-offensive France itself, our numbers had starting in Amiens, then over fallen below 100,000. We were the next few months breaking no longer replacing ourselves. The Hindenburg Line. Our last Recruiting in 1918 brought great battle at Montbrehain and 30,000 – dead and wounded on the St Quentin Canal did that on the battle field that year 65,000. the back of our victory at Mont St Quentin – Péronne. Then we Still, the refitted first and fourth were out of the line on October divisions were moving up to 5th. It was a benchmark of the front line at the time of the German intelligence all year that armistice. By then, our battalions if you discovered Australians on across the Corps supposedly your front, you could expect to around 700-800, were no be attacked within 48 hours. stronger than 200-300.
32 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au Our population was 5 million. Of mistake about it, Australia was “I heard my country, calling, men of military age, more than a subdued, quiet, devastated away across the sea. Across the half had enlisted – 420,000, of nation. For me, an overwhelming waste of waters, she calls and which 330,000 served overseas. image from the welcome homes, calls to me. Her sword is girded 61,514 were killed, over 155,000 was the 10,000 women in black, at her side, her helmet on her wounded. We need to imagine widows, who marched to the head, And around her feet are that. We have five times the harbour in Sydney from where lying the dying and the dead; population we had then. the men folk had left. Not the old I hear the noise of battle, the Calculate what the impact on us women we imagine, but women thunder of her guns; I haste to would have been if we had just not much older than those here. thee, my mother, a son among lost 300,000 men and women We were a sadder nation, but a thy sons.” in battle and had a million more mature one. wounded among us. Further, in the 1920s another 60,000 died We were more complex as a result of that war service, thinkers. Looking back over another 300,000 in our terms. the four years, why were we so There was not an extended committed at the beginning? family unaffected. Well, many saw themselves as in the phrase of the day We emerged proud of ourselves. “independent Britons of the We had established an southern sun”. Australian type. It was really a definition of an Australian male. It Paradoxically, British diplomat wasn’t until WWII that an ANZAC Cecil Spring Rice wrote a poem definition was gender inclusive. in 1913 that captured that spirit. In 1914-18 we fought for Empire. Verses 2 and 3 became the In 1939-45 for survival. Proud content of a popular English but shattered. Our men came anthem “I vow to thee my home, but many more died. Country”. But it is the never- We were proud, but we were sung first verse that carries utterly shattered. Make no the weight of this spirit:
The Listening Post NOVEMBER 2018 rslwa.org.au 33 THE POPPY EFFECT By Hayley Barclay
The poppy, it’s a symbol of remembrance and respect. Every year we see thousands of people wearing this symbol on Remembrance Day. As 2018 marked the Centenary of Armistice, RSLWA strived to create a display that truly honoured the sacrifices made.
Inspired by other knitted poppy early, buzzing with anticipation projects such as the ‘5,000 to see the final leg of this Knitted Poppies’, Wendy Moss, project fulfilled. Due to the hard RSLWA’s Event Manager, set work of the volunteers, an all- out to create a display of 62,000 day task was finished by 10am. poppies, one for each Australian that fell, to be planted in Kings The display was remarkable. Park for Remembrance Day. A sea of red remembrance flooded the gardens of Kings In order to reach this goal, Park and social channels volunteers were needed. across the internet. To say this Hundreds of people answered project had an impact would the call to knit or crotchet the be an understatement. little red flowers. Many of the poppies were knitted in the A special congratulations and comfort of people’s homes or thank you goes out to all those with knitting groups. Even ANZ involved. got involved in the process.
The real tone of this project was set by a collection of beautiful, cheerful and loving women, charmingly known as the Poppy Ladies. Under the direction of Judy Welch, Katie Dunkley and Ellen Shine, these extremely dedicated ladies arrived at Head Office every Tuesday and Friday to knit, crotchet, spike and sew these amazing creations.
The planting of these poppies was a hard but rewarding task. On November 9, members of the community, Defence Force volunteers, Poppy Ladies and Minister Paul Papalia, Poppy Project Coordinator Judy Welch, Premier Mark RSLWA staff were up bright and McGowan and RSLWA CEO John McCourt plant the first poppies
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The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 37 REMEMBRANCE DAY 2018 SUB-BRANCHES
GREENBUSHES Greenbushes Primary School students and community members gathered at the town’s war memorial on November 8 to commemorate Remembrance Day and the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of World War I. In his address, Sub-Branch Vice President Ron Adair spoke of the spirit of the ANZACs forged during World War I and its impact in shaping the response to the wars that have followed. After the address, students and community members laid wreaths at the war memorial before attending morning tea at the school.
YORK Our preparation for the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice started some months before the event when plans to construct a Memorial Wall and a “Lest We Forget” Arch in the grounds of the Sub-Branch Hall were put in place with a DVA Armistice Centenary Grant. Church bells rang out at 1100 on Armistice Day.
The Service at the World War I The Memorial Wall was unveiled by Memorial was well attended despite Shire President, David Wallace and many other activities taking place in Maria Girak, representing Attorney- the Town. General Christian Porter, revealing plaques representing the actions Following the service, attendees and campaigns in which Australians moved to the RSL Hall at 164 Avon have served since Federation. The Tce, for the unveiling and dedication Wall and Arch were dedicated by of the Memorial Wall and “Lest We Pastor Brett Butler of the Church of Forget” Arch over the path to the Christ, our neighbours. Remembrance Garden.
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NORTH BEACH On the Friday and Saturday prior to Remembrance Day, members from North Beach Sub-Branch trekked from Fremantle to North Beach, marking the journey home many young soldiers faced.
COCKBURN were proved by Joint Logistics Unit complementary community BBQ (WEST), Seton Catholic College lunch. We were extremely grateful The parade assembled in the Sub- Choir sang Lest we Forget, Australia for the huge turnout for the Parade Branch car park and in Frederick Remembers, New Zealand and and Service, and the support shown Road under the protection of WA Australian National Anthems. Police by the Cockburn Community. We Traffic Police. The parade was officers in attendance estimated the have since been informed that led by three vehicles from DFES, crowd in excess of 2,000. not long after Remembrance Day, Coogee and Jandakot Volunteer members of the Coogee and Fire Brigades, closely followed by After the Service, there was Jandakot Volunteer Bush Fire two Land Rovers carrying eight in excess of three people that Brigade went to help fight the fire in veterans. returned to the Sub-Branch for the North Queensland. These were followed by four troopers and a dog from the 10th Light Horse Memorial Troop in front of the Cadet Colour Party and veterans from Cockburn and Bicton/ Palmyra. There was in excess of 200 people in the parade, which included ADF personnel, WA Police Officers, Cadets, Scouts and Guides, local school students, Councillors, politicians and their families, members of the Ahmadya Muslim Community, Cockburn Sea Rescue and Cockburn SES. Marching music was provided by City of Cockburn Pipe Band and Perth Hills and Wheat Belt Band. Local people stood and applauded as the parade marched along Forrest Road and Carrington Street. As the parade arrived at the City of Cockburn War Memorial, Brigadier Stephen Cain took the salute before the start of the Service. Brigadier Cain also delivered the Remembrance Day Address, the Chaplain for the service was Rev Chaplain Kelvin Harris RAN. The Catafalque Party and flag marshals
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NEDLANDS MOORA The Nedlands Sub-Branch On Remembrance Day, Moora service was held with the support Sub-Branch unveiled their New of the City of Nedlands, at the Honour Rolls, opened by Shire Karrakatta War Cemetery. The president Ken Seymour. There were service was attended by our about 200 people in attendance. St local MP, the Hon Bill Marmion, Josephs School recited the poem the Mayor and Councilors of ‘Flanders Fields’. Moora Primary the City of Nedlands, a DVA School performed the song ‘We Are representative and over 400 Australians’ and Central Midlands members of our community. Senior High school performed a poem of dedication. This year we Loyal Poppy Crosses were laid at had a guard of Honour by the Cadets each gravesite before the service. of Central Midlands Senior High This was part of a programme School, under the guidance of Mr to lay 4,000 crosses, particularly Brown. Members then went and had in France, to commemorate the a lovely lunch at the Drovers Inn. Centenary of Armistice. The Loyal Poppy Crosses were laid by the students of Hollywood Primary School, with each placing a personal message on their individual cross. Students from Hollywood, Nedlands, Dalkeith and Loreto Primary Schools read poems, and Hollywood Primary School Choir added to the dignity of the ceremony. The address by Nedlands Sub- Branch President Doug Arrowsmith DFC OAM Ld’H emphasised the importance of keeping the memory of sacrifice alive, particularly among young people, while Peta Alderman, WA State Manager Commonwealth War Graves, provided a perspective on the significance of the War Cemetery After a long delay, it was pleasing that it was possible to once more hold the service under the shadow of the now renovated Cross of Sacrifice.
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NORTHAM On the 10th of November, new memorials were dedicated to the Boer War, women and to animals that served. Attending the dedication was RSLWA Trustee Wayne Tarr RFD ED and his wife, Eleanor. The dedication was followed by a morning tea. A special thank you must go to Michelle and Bailey for the hard work they put into painting the mural. A dinner dance was held in the evening, Bedrock providing the music. A church service, led by Pastor Kym Edwards, commenced November bugle, lent by Malcolm Fegan students, Jessica and Hannah, 11th. At 10am the first poppy was (which is father had brought back gave the talks. Mr Glynn McDonald planted by the President of the from Gallipoli). For a 102-year-old led Combined Districts Concert Northam Sub-Branch followed instrument, it had a haunting sound Band to accompany the singing of by members of the community. when played and one could imagine the hymns. The Remembrance Day service the many soldiers who had heard it commenced with the RAAF cadet After the service the community during WW1. drums marching from Memorial were invited to stay and join in a fun Hall to Bernard Park. As they drew The flyover was arranged by Peter day with displays, sausage sizzle, nearer to the park, the sounds from Hill and the pilot was Kim Lawrence. train rides, games, music by the their drum was like gunfire. Sub- The ode was given by Mr Mick Combined Districts Concert Band, Branch President Mick Prytaluk Prytulak, Flanders Field was recited a drum-playing display by the RAAF called a cease fire. Luis Lim then by Mr Jim Donovan and Mr Bill Cadets and music by Bedrock to be played the Last Post on the bugle. It Colthard played Amazing Grace enjoyed. was a privilege to have this special on the bagpipes. Two high school
ELLENBROOK The Ellenbrook Sub-Branch Remembrance Day service attracted approximately 300 participants. The Malvern Springs Primary School choir and band provided an excellent musical accompaniment to the Service. Sub-Branch President Kelly Brosnan opened the service with an address about the impact that the First World War had on the small population of this country. What we found encouraging was the participation of the youth of our suburb through the cadet honour guard and the students playing music.
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MilliganRemembers House Child Perth Children’s Care Hospital Foundation The staff and students of Members of the ADF and Poppy Milligan House Child Care Ladies group visited the Perth took the time to decorate their Children’s Hospital Foundation Westfield Shopping centre for Remembrance Day. Fun on Four in order to make Centre Handmade poppies adorned poppies with the patients. walls throughout and even lined The play area was decorated Westfield Shopping Centres the footpath that leads to the with poppies throughout the across Perth hosted surrounding entrance of the building. Remembrance Day period, Sub-Branches for the week military-themed books were leading up to Remembrance featured in the reading area, Day. Westfield Innaloo, Carousel while patients were also and Whitfords commissioned encouraged to take poppies stunning acrylic poppy stands back to their wards with them. to encourage patrons to engage with the veterans and the spirit of the day.
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Mazenod College his days at the College and the great respect all the community On Friday 9 November, staff, has for Old Boys how have given students and veterans gathered active service. on the grounds of Mazenod RSL City of Cockburn College to commemorate Youth Members Remembrance Day. This 100th anniversary marking The Sub-Branch is very proud the end of hostilities in World War of our Youth Members, and in 1, held a special significance particular Deacon and Connor to the College. The Mazenod Leete, the grandsons of the late Old Boys association presented RSL Member Kevin Richardson. the College with the Mazenod They have been busy chasing Honour Roll, which records the and collecting donations to names of all former students pack in Care Packages for ADF who have seen active service in Personnel serving overseas, the Australian Defence Forces. they have managed to pack and The Honour Roll was presented despatch a total of 27 packages. by Mazenod Old Boy, Mr Rob Apart from this, they are always Huston, who spoke fondly of helping out at the Sub-Branch on a Friday evening or whenever they are available. Youth Coordinator Tim Gregory is now Ellenbrook Primary delivering a cultural message to planning a trip to Canberra and the wider community. Sydney for our Youth Members School This year the school was later this year. They are all busy Ellenbrook Primary School given an Armistice grant from now fundraising for their trip. conducts moving services for DVA to develop a memorial ANZAC Day and Remembrance Members are very grateful for the to commemorate the 100th Day every year as a part effort that these young members anniversary of Armistice. are putting in to support our of the school’s curriculum, veterans and their families. and importantly as a part of The school had five black granite plaques engraved and attached to a limestone wall. The panels feature the Australian Light Horse, The Ode and other iconic aspects of the Great War. The memorial was unveiled by the Federal Attorney- General Christian Porter and the principal, Dr Neil MacNeill.
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 43 MILITARY ARTON REMEMBRANCE DAY
To showcase the Military Art Program Australia and some of the work of talented local veterans, RSLWA invited MAPA to take part in the Remembrance Day Armistice Picnic at Government House Gardens. Art has long been a means to express Scattered around the garden beds stood gates, each hand one’s inner most painted by a member of MAPA thoughts and and each telling an individual emotions. More story of the Great War. recently, it has been One of these, a woman with used as a method for poppies in her hair, was painted to family and loved ones, that treatment of mental by artist Suzie Brown. The woman represented the strength unconditional and excited love, health issues. of the women left behind. and the waiting black dog of depression, PTSD and the battle Military Art Program Australia A white picket fence with a with mental health that many (MAPA) offers classes in Perth black dog was created by artist face post service. for veterans, catering for all skill Amelia Wilkinson, whose family levels, in a relaxed environment. served in the Australian and Of the military contingent was Regular attendance has been British Armies. The black dog Travis, currently serving in the proven to encourage connection, represented both coming home Australian Army, who burned mateship and focus. the face of a Digger into a white picket fence. The white painted fence represented civilian society. The aged timber with burnt and mud stained image of the Unknown Soldier shows the price soldiers pay to keep it this way. Another veteran, Sandra Troncone, envisioned the task in quite a similar manner, painting the face of a war weary soldier haunted by the atrocities of war.
If you are interested in learning more about Military Art Program Australia, visit www.militaryartprogram.com.au or search them on Facebook.
44 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au REMEMBRANCE DAY WRAP UP NO DIVIDES AS AUSSIES HONOUR WWI FALLEN AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX
By John Arthur “The Adelaide Cemetery is the centerpiece and it’s Fittingly, the where Australia’s Unknown Centenary of Soldier was in 1993 and relocated to a tomb beneath Armistice Service at the dome of the Australian Villers-Bretonneux War Memorial’s Hall of in France drew Memory in remembrance of passionate people of all Australians who died in war. all shapes and sizes – and politics. “It is also the site of the recently dedicated John It attracted these four Monash Centre, Australia’s Australians from vastly different newest museum and tribute backgrounds: standing from left to the men and women of WA’s Peter Tinley (former SASR; World War I. now state Minister for Housing and Veterans’ Issues); Northern “I also had the rare privilege Territory’s Warren Snowdon and honour of citing the (former national Minister for Ode at Menin Gate on the Defence Science and Personnel, evening of November 10, at the an OAM for his work there. He is Minister for Veterans’ Affairs); invitation of the chairman of the well known in Australia and has Victoria’s Darren Chester (current Last Post Association, Benoit been to WA as a guest of the national Minister for Veterans’ Mottrois. He was presented with RSL.” Affairs; Minister Assisting the At 8 pm each night, volunteer Prime Minister for the Centenary firefighters from the small of ANZAC; Minister for Defence Belgian town of Ieper (better Personnel) and in front WA’s known by its French name Graham Edwards (former Ypres) sound the Last Post at RSLWA state president). the Menin Gate memorial. The “The service at Villers- ceremony started in 1928 and Bretonneux was held at 11am some of the buglers have also on the 11th day of the 11th performed at WA ceremonies. month 2018 and attended by The memorial holds the some 2000 people - mainly names of more than 54,000 Australians,” Mr Edwards said. Commonwealth soldiers who lost “There were no political divides their lives in the Ypres Salient on that special day. I say ‘Well battlefields in Flanders and have done fellas… Lest We Forget’. no known grave. Former RSLWA President Graham Edwards was given the honour of reciting the Ode at Menin Gate
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 45 POPPY APPEAL A BLOOMING SUCCESS
By Hayley Barclay
On the Centenary of Armistice, RSLWA set for the day ahead, I noticed out to make the 2018 Remembrance Day more how the sea of city folk that I pass everyday had all acquired spectacular than ever. Along with the 62,000 that glowing crimson symbol of knitted poppies that were planted in Kings remembrance upon their dress. Park, the annual Poppy and Street Appeals Not just a couple of people here and there…everyone. All of the were conducted. men and women adorned their business attire with a poppy, all As is done every year, RSLWA appeal which, for 2018, occurred of the store workers added a reached out to local businesses, on Friday the 9th of November. poppy to their lanyards or keys. schools and other companies The public, even in their state to encourage them to host a There are several things that are of caffeine-deficiency, greeted box of poppies and a collection particularly wonderful about the our collectors with a smile, a container on their premises. street appeal. The first being donation. With all of the city folks This year RSLWA successfully that even though every State hurrying and bustling about, rallied upwards of 80 different Branch staff member is at work RSLWA, with the assistance of businesses, schools and extremely early, most without ADF collectors, were able to companies keen to participate in their caffeine fix until much later collect $26,547.30 on this day. the Poppy Appeal. Through their in the morning, the air is always thick with excitement. Everyone triumphant efforts, the collectors RSLWA would like to extend was buzzing with energy and were able to raise $19,544.00! a thank you to all our Sub- humour, and ready to make Branches and collectors who RSLWA’s dedicated Sub- another successful appeal. The participated in this event. You Branches once again went second wonderful thing is the have helped to raise a grand above and beyond to raise way everyone comes together on total of $359,447.53. Without funds. With the combined total of this particular day; RSLWA staff your assistance, and kind 79 participating Sub-Branches, members, ADF and members of donations, we wouldn’t be able the funds raised stood at the public – all working together to do absolutely everything we $313,356.23. to assist our veterans. The third can to assist our veterans. thing is my personal favourite. The Poppy Appeal is a By 0930, as I was hurrying If you would like to participate in fundraising event that back and forth making sure any of RSLWA’s appeals, please stretches over 2-3 weeks, but everything was set up and that contact us on 9287 3799 or at accompanying this is the street all of the collectors were ready [email protected].
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Special thanks to our business supporters:
Acacia Living John Forrest Shire of Chittering Agnew Gold Mine Kalamunda Aeronautical Model Society Shire of Yilgarn Alcoa Kellerberrin CWA South Coast Baptist College All Saints College Lake Gwelup Primary School Southbank Day Surgery Army Museum of WA Landsdale Farm School Council St Georges Anglican Grammar School Aspects Kings Park Len Winton St John of God Atco Gas Life Ready Physio Butler St Norbert College Australind Florist Methodist Ladies College St Thomas Primary School The Bell Tower Millen Primary School Star of the Sea Primary School Brightwater Care Group: Kingsley Miss Tartufo Swanbourne Primary School C Restaurant Morley Primary School TAB Cambridge Rotary Narembeen Historical Society The Vic Subiaco Cheese Barrel Network Aviation The West Australian Contract Resources Queen of Apostles School Tropicana Taste Life Cowaramup Brewing Company Perth Mint Urban Barberette Curves Willeton Perth Radiological Clinic WA Police Property Management Department of Communities Peter Anderton Centre Division Department of Home Affairs Ray Civtan Hair Design Wesley College Department of Human Services Robert Kidd Westfield Carousel, Innaloo, Whitfords ESS Compass Group/Tropicana Social Rockingham Beach Florist Willetton Primary School Club Rossmoyne Senior High School Woody Nook Wines Fremantle Markets Royal Perth Hospital Newsagency Work Clobber Balcatta, Cannington, Gruyere Gold Mine Safety Bay Primary School Canningvale, Joondalup, Kelmscott, Guildford Grammar School Sevenoaks Senior College Midland, Morely, O’Connor, Wangara
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 47 Remembrance Parade London By 23957722 - Cox, C.A. Youth Coordinator Tim Gregory go to Villiers-Bretonneux but is now planning a trip to the logistics and cost to be Canberra and Sydney for there for the day were out of my our Youth Members later this reach financially. I was staying year. They are all busy now with my sister in Greenwich at fundraising for their trip. the Trafalgar Barracks, which is part of the old naval college. A Mind you, it wasn’t so much a brilliant place right on the river Column F will march as an organised ramble, Thames. From London to Paris, with the mixture of men and then on to Villiers proved very advance, women from all over the world. expensive, so when I was offered by the left Around me at line 21 were the the opportunity to march in Honourable order of Tin Hats, London I readily accepted. South Africans I think, Canadian Quick March. Through the good work of Shay Ex Forces, Arctic Convoy in head office, the relevant Veterans, Light Infantry, so passes and security checks keeping in step seemed to be a arrived a day before I flew out of fairly low priority. Perth. As we moved through to The weekend started with Whitehall, through Horse attending the Remembrance Guards and the bands, the step Service at the Albert Hall, a started to be heard and timings very memorable and emotional improved somewhat. concert. So as not to experience Back to the beginning, my any delays on Sunday morning, intention for the centenary we stayed in the city at the commemorations had been to Union Jack Club in Waterloo,
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a wonderful establishment for after the parade and line up on them to the cenotaph. Then ex and serving members of the Westminster Bridge in great you march down Whitehall past military to enjoy cheap, central, numbers to return you to chosen the Cenotaph, do a right turn, wonderful food and bars. destination. then right again back into Horse Guards. Not a major distance, On leaving the Albert Hall it So after providing security but quite a step for an old bloke. bucketed down with rain and checks at one of many tents we had no shelter at all. We got erected on Horse Guards Road It’s interesting when waiting to be soaked walking to the bus stop, with photo ID and your ticket, dismissed and watching others but after drying out a bit the you join some 12,000 others arrive. For instance the Durham atmosphere at the UJ club was greeting and meeting, finding Light Infantry, DLI, march at 160 something very special. your allotted spot and eagerly steps/minute which means they waiting march off. Once through are constantly catching others Early next morning we awoke to Whitehall you’re marshalled in the parade and have to mark to thunder and rain and feared very efficiently and about time frequently. the worst for the day. But 0930 turned whilst the ceremony of turned, the rain stopped and the With our free cab ride back to Remembrance is performed on rest of the day’s weather was UJ club, we had a few enjoyable a huge screen. Then the parade fine. beers at the bar then the river begins in earnest, marching bus back to Greenwich to end a as smartly as you can past the A wonderful contribution to memorable weekend. all veterans is applied by the cenotaph and the Royal Salute, London’s famous black cabs. with the opportunity to lay I can’t thank RSLWA enough On the day they will pick any wreaths. The wreaths are taken for the privilege and honour to veterans and drive them to from you in the left-hand ranks represent our great organisation. Horse Guards free of charge, and passed to scouts in the It will remain one the highlights they also do the return trip middle of the road that transfer of my life.
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 49 WA’S BOY SOLDIERS By Ashayla Ramsay
Portrait of 4125 Private (Pte) Edward Chichele Giles (left), of Queens Park, WA, and 4128 Pte James William Harrington, of Maylands, WA. Both were killed in action at Pozieres on 29 July 1916. Pte Harrington was aged 20 years. According to his records Pte Giles was aged 16 years at enlistment, (he put his age up when he enlisted). They have no known graves and are commemorated on the Villers- Bretonneux Memorial, France.
they have no known grave. Their mothers left with no child to bury.
These harrowing statistics are simply a piece of the information uncovered by Sandra Playle. Author and historian Andrew Pittaway is set to collate the We often hear stories of young men, dashing stories of each young man into a in their uniforms, bravely seeking adventure book later this year. in foreign lands. For King and Country. For If you know of a West Australian Australia. Many falsified their documents, “Boy Soldier” who perished during World War One or Two, lying about their age in order to enlist. you are encouraged to email Sandra at [email protected] The minimum enlistment age One of these soldiers was with their details, birth certificate for the AIF was 21, though Alexander George White. White and photograph. many aged just 18 signed enlisted on July 19th 1917, up brandishing parental stating that he was 20 years permissions slips, as if they were and nine months old. In fact, to attend a school excursion and he was five weeks short of his Sandra’s research has not a war that encompassed 15th birthday. He had forged the uncovered: the world. signature of his mother, granting • 6 “Boy Soldiers” in the him the permission to enlist. 28th Battalion, Haunted by a single image of a young soldier, (Private Edward Alexander was by no means • 4 in the 11th Battalion Chichele Giles, aged just 17 the youngest Perth boy to make • 2 in the 16th years and six months old at the it into the field of battle, the time of his death, uncovered youngest dead at just 15 years • 4 in the 51st while collating the “Soldiers of and forty-eight days young. • 2 in the 44th Albany” project), researcher Eleven of those killed under the Sandra Playle has dedicated the age of 18 lay somewhere on the • 1 in the 48th past few years to uncovering Western Front, named on the • 1 in the 3rd Field Company Western Australia’s “Boy Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Engineers Soldiers”.
50 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au The Listening Post JULY 2018 rslwa.org.au 51 M A ES REMEMBERING N
THE FALLEN 1878, W. Morgan 6798, J.H. Moughtin By Ashayla Ramsay 22366, B.D. Old 1155, G.F. Paulson 31124, E. Robinson 4475, F. Simons 5109, E.P. Delaney 3354. P. Hay 5853, W.H. Jones 10877, J.P. McNamara
In the middle of a cemetery stand 10 soldiers. In their hands they hold an Australian flag. Despite the summer warmth, each holds vigil by a fresh headstone. These are not the graves of the recently fallen though. These are the graves of 10 previously unrecognised soldiers who served this country in the First World War.
Through the efforts of Bunbury Sub-Branch members, with the assistance of the Bunbury Cemetery, 10 soldiers forgotten to time were finally remembered. At a service accompanied by the 10th Light Horse Brigade, Diggers from the 11/28th Battalion A Company, piper Charlie and 14 year-old Jonah Golds on the bugle, these heroes received the burial they deserved, each gravesite resplendent with a newly minted headstone.
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The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 53 AUSTRALIA DAY SILVER MEDALLION AWARD
GRAEME PETER CADDY Mr Caddy has been a stalwart for advocacy services in the Busselton RSL Sub-Branch. While the Sub-Branch has a number of very dedicated advocates, Mr Caddy has gone about his role with determination, passion and kindness. He has put in countless hours of his time to help veterans in the area and to mentor new advocates.
The dedication shown by Mr Caddy is making a difference in the lives of others and helping to build the future of RSL advocacy services in the Busselton Region.
PETER EDWARDS Mr Peter Edwards is a long-serving member of the North Beach Sub-Branch.
For his tireless efforts and strong commitment he is known by his peers as the “busiest bloke in the Sub-Branch” - always available to assist with administrative tasks and organising events, taking part in fundraising activities and using his professional skills to assist our Sub-Branch committee and the local community.
Mr Edwards’ support and dedication to the task are a credit to himself and the Sub-Branch as a whole.
TRISH FYNMORE Mrs Fynmore has acted as Secretary at Mosman Park Sub-Branch for a period of five years, and continues in that role. She not only performs all the duties of Secretary to an excellent standard, but she is also the glue that holds the fabric of the membership together. Our group contains a number of vulnerable folks - frail, sick, disabled, alone and more. Trish demonstrates a truly compassionate nature every week by reaching out to these members – telephone calls, visits, transport and more. She very actively encourages folk to attend events, thereby utilising the “power of humanity” to deal with the rigours of life. Trish leads by example - she is charitable, kindly and positive at all times. She is a truly worthy recipient of this award because of her ongoing work in our RSL community, often at great personal cost.”
54 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au JUDITH MAUDE WELCH Mrs Welch has been the driver for the largest Poppy Project this State has ever embarked on. The project to display 62,000 handmade Poppies in the grounds of Kings Park for the 100th anniversary of the Armistice, was not only a remarkable spectacle but it brought together people from across Western Australia who recognised the significance of the anniversary and the symbolism of the 62,000 Poppy Project.
Mrs Welch worked tirelessly to coordinate the project while committing countless hours herself putting together Poppies, arranging workshops, purchasing resources and planning the installation. Without her devotion to the task, this project would not have succeeded and the countless positives that have come out of it, as a result, would have never been achieved.
GRAHAM (DIGGER) BROOKS AND JANET BROOKS In 2003, Graham and his wife Janet recognised there was a shortfall in the information being provided to students in local schools in relation to the many conflicts Australians had served in, so they decided to go out and spread the word.
They travelled around the Wheatbelt area, which covered 16 schools and some 2000 students. In 2007, they started using the RSL Welfare trailer. Over time, Graham approached RSLWA to see if he could get funding for a new trailer as the Welfare trailer had become unserviceable.
In 2014, with letters of support from all the schools, Graham and Janet visited RSLWA which agreed to help with funds.
Graham and Janet have travelled the Wheatbelt while working on their family farm in Koorda, as well as battling health issues. Their dedication and commitment to preserving the memories of Australians at war is commendable.
CECILE HINTON Mrs Hinton has been a life member of the RSL for many years. Her service to RSLWA and in particular the Returned Ex-Service Women Sub-Branch included holding many Sub-Branch committee positions, including that of President. Mrs Hinton’s many years of fundraising are particularly noted. Even in her later years, she has continued to support the efforts of fundraising by providing her own funds to the welfare of veterans when she has been unable to take part in street appeals.
Mrs Hinton has been the pinup girl for RSLWA, her friendly smile and kind nature are at the heart of what it means to be a member of the RSL and to represent all those who served.
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 55 IN YOUR WORDS GHOSTS OF THE MASTERS OF WAR By You decided to teach them their lesson and rue the day they were born. Tricking these men of their lives for your lie, “this is the war to end all wars” Andrew Lavell You were only driven by greed and desire, to protect what was “rightfully yours”. I ask of you what lessons could be taught, by man fighting his fellow man, If they only knew they were just puppets, they’d have drawn a line in the sand. Telling them to boldly take up their arms, filling them with “country” and hate, The only good thing they learned over there, was to never go leaving your mate.
After spilling their blood and that of their kin, while losing none of your own, You told them they had “put up a great fight, demob and go back to your home”. In your efforts to make it all seem worthwhile, you declared The War a success, Looking at it through their war-weary eyes, it seemed like a grand game of chess.
Using ships like bishops and tanks as your rooks, and planes just like the knights, From your great distance in a cosseted world, you safely controlled all the fights. Enjoying your game like Fischer on speed, ‘til the world was tattered and torn, Checkmate was gained with the bomb as your queen. and using man as your pawn.
Our heroes have now come back from the front, some with limbs weak or floppy, And all we “can” do in return for their deeds, is to once a year buy a red poppy. Concealing their scars and being made to fit in, after giving us their finest hours, We have no right to feel good about ourselves, simply by buying some flowers.
Look at what you have done to these men, who went to your war as just boys, They could not conceive those rivers of blood, or dreamt of all of the noise. It is plain to see how you’ve damaged them all, playing your unscrupulous game, Now is the time to reflect on your deeds, and wallow like a pig in your shame.
You don’t really deserve Bob Dylan’s title, labelling you “Masters of War”, A fool with fewer resources of blood, surely could have won so much more. You have made your point with their futures, and altered their pathway ahead. If only Bob had looked a bit longer and made sure that you really were dead.
It has been a hundred years and more now, peddling your deceit and your lies, Declaring your wars through the airwaves, never daring to look in their eyes. I ask you to reflect from wherever you are now, and look at what you have done, Your soul will now know no peace and no rest, after having your day in the sun.
I call on you now to atone for your deeds, and hope that atonement is fast. You need to warn all our world leaders, like Ghosts from The Christmas Past. Maybe only then can we live in the hope that. for war our flags are not unfurled, And gone is the “worst fear to be hurled”– “ of bringing children into this world”!
56 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au Listening POST: In Your Words Competition
We are now taking submissions for the didn’t return? Whatever your story is, we want to “Listening Post: In Your Words Competition”. hear it. All you have to do is submit your story. One story will be chosen to be published in Perhaps you have a funny tale from recruit each edition and the writer will also receive a school, or maybe you overcame a huge commemorative prize pack. obstacle in your life. Did you embark on a trip or pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of veterans Submissions should be between 200-700 before you? Are you a child of a veteran that words and emailed to [email protected]. au with a high-resolution print-quality image.
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Lance Corporal Harry Waldon (on right) Just prior to publishing “Fremantle Voices of the Great War”, a friend put me in touch with a chap in France who was the VOICES OF grandson of a Fremantle Digger. FREMANTLE David Delannony lives not far from where his grandad served in the war, where he tended the graves of the NO.4723 LANCE CORPORAL fallen. I was very glad to receive several HARRY WALDON – photos from him for publishing. Harry Waldon had been a horse driver 11TH BATTALION AIF prior to enlisting in the AIF in the Great War. He and his brother John By Andrew Pittaway had grown up in Fremantle. John had enlisted early in the war, serving with the 9th Light Horse Regiment in Gallipoli and the Middle East. Harry enlisted in May 1915 and initially
58 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au served with the 8th Battery of the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. After an initial stint in Egypt, Harry served with them on the Western Front through 1916- 917. In October 1917, he transferred to the 11th Battalion AIF. The Australians were then holding the line near Passchendaele. Harry served with the 11th Battalion for the remainder of the war.
On 30th March 1919, he married Marie-Louise Bayart in Steenwerck Northern France and they soon returned on a ship back to Western Australia, taking up residence in Fremantle. A daughter, Valentine was born in 1920. In 1924 the Waldon family returned to France and Harry took up employment as a gardener with the Imperial War Graves Commission, initially being based out of Armentieres. Harry would look after the war graves in the region and also be a caretaker in charge of the Australian Cemetery at Marie Louise and Harry pictured post WW2 Villers-Bretonneux which soon became the site Western Australia for a holiday and hopes to return of the Australian National Memorial in France. He to live someday. Until recently, Fouilloy was almost helped many an early battlefield visitor to France; purely Australian, but last winter the remains of 450 a battlefield visitor, under the pseudonym “One Canadians were re-interred there. The site is ideal, Digger Returned” wrote in the Western Mail in being on the crest of a high ridge half-way between April 1929 Fouilloy and Villers.”
“Some 1500 Australians are buried at the Fouilloy Harry continued with his work through the 1930s but Cemetery, which is cared for by Mr Waldon, the outbreak of another war and the rapid German an ex-Digger from Fremantle. Two Western advance through France in 1940 soon had the family Australian lads were there when I called, but I and other Imperial War Graves staff making their way met Mr Waldon, with his little French wife and to the coast in the hope to be evacuated to England. daughter, at Amiens. Mrs Waldon has been to Harry and the family were soon engulfed by the German advance.
Harry was imprisoned in Poland and Germany, and would be separated from his wife and daughter for the duration of the war. Due to their Australian links, both mother and daughter were interned. Valentine, a medical student, was, due to her Australian birth, interned at the University of Louvain in Belgium.
After the family reunited after the war, Harry resumed work for the IWGC as a head gardener and retired in 1957. Harry Waldon died in France in 1964. He and Mary Louise are buried in the village of Steenwerck, Northern France. Valentine Waldon (pictured pre WW2)
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 59 Bill Mitchell (right) with two of his mates in the Middle East during the war
mortar fire, dive bomber raids, flies, fleas and rats, a shortage of supplies and the ever-blowing VALE BILL fine desert sand – until they were evacuated out of Tobruk Harbour on the night of 17 October 1941 MITCHELL to Alexandria in Egypt. (Rat of Tobruk), by Lyn Mitchell, On 28 June 1942, as part of Riverton RSL Public Relations Officer the Western Desert Campaign, they arrived at El Alamein, an Egyptian railway siding. During William (Bill) Richard He was to have served in the First Battle of El Alamein, Mitchell (WX10233), the 2/16th Battalion, but after elements of the Battalion arriving in the Middle East on one of Australia’s assaulted Trig 22 Makh Khad 29 August 1941, he was sent Ridge on 22 July, where Bill was oldest Rats of Tobruk, straight to the 2/43rd Battalion wounded in action when he was passed away at the as a reinforcement due the shot in the arm. heavy losses suffered during age of 101-and-a-half the unsuccessful assault on the While his Bren gunner mate was on August 24, 2018. Salient at Tobruk, Libya a few assisting him with that wound, a weeks earlier. shell went off nearby, showering Bill was born in Boulder, Western them both in shrapnel. Australia, the oldest boy in a As a Rat of Tobruk in North family of nine children. As a Africa, Bill and his Battalion His mate received a serious eye young man, he worked in the mates fought the Germans, led injury and Bill suffered a large mines before signing up at by German Field Marshal Erwin shrapnel wound to his back. the age of 23 with the General Rommel and the Italians. They Bill was transferred to the British Reinforcements of the AIF on 18 endured tank, machine gun and General Hospital, where he December 1940.
60 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au spent many months before being evacuated back to Australia to recuperate.
In June 1943, he was sent to Cairns in Queensland to undertake jungle training around Kairi, near the Atherton Tablelands. Training involved preparation for jungle warfare, including amphibious assaults with the American amphibious boats of the 5/32nd Boat and Shore Regiment. During this time, he was promoted to Lance Corporal.
Two months later, the 2/43rd Bill Mitchell with his medals at a recent arrived in Milne Bay, New ANZAC luncheon Guinea on their way to fight the Japanese at Lae. Later, the Battalion landed at Scarlett Beach, Finschhafen in New With the war ending, Bill was Guinea, where they undertook part of the Battalion holding Bill Mitchell in his uniform during the war operations to drive the enemy strength at Brunei Bay and out of that area. By Christmas Labuan Island. He finally 1943, all operations there had boarded a Catalina to fly home the Rats of Tobruk Association ceased. to Western Australia, landing for many years and regularly in Crawley Bay, Nedlands, attended the quarterly 2/43rd The 2/43rd returned to Australia on 11 January 1946 and was Battalion luncheons, ANZAC Day and was based at Ravenshoe, discharged from the Army. marches, Remembrance Day Queensland, undertaking commemorations and Tobruk continuous training from January Bill set about making a new life Sundays, often entertaining 1944 to April 1945. During for himself and later married family and friends afterwards this time, Bill was promoted to Wanda (Wandie) Sullivan. They with his life stories, and hilarious Corporal. settled on an 11-hectare orchard poetry and jokes. at Roleystone in the Perth hills, On 7 April 1945, the Battalion Bill worked the orchard part time He was very fortunate to be boarded an American troop ship and worked with the CSIRO full active and full of beans right and landed at Moratai Island in time until his retirement. up until a few weeks before he northeast Indonesia. Two months passed away. More than 300 later, they assaulted Brown Bill and Wandie were married people attended his funeral, held Two Beach on Labuan Island for 68 years. They raised six at his favourite drinking hole, the in Sabah, Borneo, clearing the children, had 12 grandchildren Roleystone Country Club, where island of Japanese. and 12 great grandchildren. he was a Founding and Life Over their lifetime, they became Member. In June, the Battalion landed stalwarts of the Roleystone on mainland Sabah and moved community. Bill was always quite along the Klias River towards unassuming. But the truth is he Beaufort. By the July 1, the action While Bill was able to put his was respected and revered by was virtually over and finally, war service behind him and his extended family, friends and on 17 September 1945, the simply get on with life, he never the local community as a truly Japanese formally surrendered in forgot his mates. He served likeable bloke. Bill is survived by the Beaufort area. as a committee member of his wife Wandie.
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 61 HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRED By Ashayla Ramsay
On the 26th of December 2018, one of our own celebrated a centenary. Born in the UK in 1918, it was in the beautifully located Bethanie Care facility that I met Mr Frederick Andrew Banyard, or Fred to his friends.
Fred had not had an easy life. His father passed in the 1920s and his mother placed him in an orphanage as she immigrated to
Australia, only calling for him in Frederick Andrew Banyard (right) the 1930s when she had settled in West Perth. Fred left school at Brigade, but he remembered the a young age, taking a job at the names of his mates, and denied Cadbury-Fry and Pascal factory with a chuckle and a twinkle in at just 14 where he remained his eye ever getting up to any until 1942 when he enlisted in mischief with them. the Army. After the war, he returned to birthday. One hundred was Now Fred did not tell me all the Cadbury-Fry and Pascal pretty old, he told me, but he of this. This information was factory, where he remained until didn’t know why such a fuss was passed on by his mates at the he retired in 1977. He credited made over him. It was clear to RAE Association. At 100 years his longevity to exercise and me though, glancing at all of the of age, Fred’s memory is fading, sheer stubbornness, playing photos of his mates and family but that didn’t stop the laughs tennis despite his insisted lack around the room, that there are and smiles as we chatted. Fred of skill and choosing to walk plenty of people out there who may not remember much of everywhere he could. think he is a very big deal. his time as a Section’s Signals Operator in New Britain, or He seemed quite surprised that Happy century Fred, with many the Field Engineering work he the Queen herself had sent him more years to come. completed with the 13th Infantry a letter wishing him a happy
62 The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au Boddington’s New Floor
The original jarrah floorboards, minus the hazard cones The treatment and repair of the bearings In 1957, locals of Boddington banded together to build a hall to house those who had returned from service. In 2011, the exterior of the building was clad with alloy soundproof sheeting. Shortly after, a stained glass panel was added to the entrance.
In 2017, the jarrah floorboards, The particle board is placed The new floors originally sourced from an older Boddington Sub-Branch asked bearing required some minor hall in the area, were in need of the community around them repair work, along with a patch repairs. Eventually, these to make up the excess of thorough treatment of termite patch repairs grew larger as the $11,000. Alongside RSLWA HQ, proofing and by the 13th of termite damage spread. The Boddington Lions Club and the February, a layer of moisture and hall was spotted with orange Shire of Boddington heeded the termite-proofed particle board cones warning veterans and their call and work began on the 7th was laid. This was topped by families not to walk in certain of February 2017. engineered timber flooring with areas for fear of falling through underlay. the brittle timber. A crew of eight volunteers removed the old floorboards The whole event was over by The decision was made to in a single day. The boards February 15th, thanks to the replace the floor entirely as the were unsalvageable for further amazing volunteers and support original narrow boards of jarrah recycling efforts. The floor of the community. were becoming rare and difficult to source. With quotes received, • Information and images provided by Kevin Standen, President of Boddington Sub-Branch.
The Listening Post MARCH 2019 rslwa.org.au 63 DIGGER’S DAY
By Pamela Harrison
Teeing off a golfDonnybrook ball suspended Branch, which is also the only Forecasts of a wet weekend may have from a string is not as easy as Sub-Branch that has bowls and it sounds, and some players golf. contributed to fewer needed quite a few swings. Also, participants in this standing on a tyre and using a President Ric Evans said they were happy with the turn out year’s Digger’s Day hockey stick for teeing off was a change, and just to add some despite the weather. at the Country Club more humour, trying to putt a “As always, we would like to thank Donnybrook on wobbly golf ball. our sponsors for their ongoing Sunday, October 14. Fashion also came into the day support. And thank you to the ladies who volunteered their However, it did not deter the with a brief change of attire when golfers had to don a WW1 trench time in preparing morning and 15 golfers and 22 bowlers from afternoon teas, as well as Colin enjoying themselves, with only a coat and German helmet while teeing off. Cuthbert for his expert cooking few light showers with which to skills at the barbecue,” Ric said. contend. Despite these slight alterations in The end of the day saw Peter The golfers had a few slight golfing rules, the players enjoyed themselves and dug deep into Oliver, Damian Dixon and Rob weird alterations to the normal Cross winners of the bowlers’ rounds of 18 holes of golf, but all their pockets for the cause. That cause was Legacy trophy, with the golfers’ trophy endured them with good humour going to Bruce Thompson, Max and expertise. This special day is organised Farley and Dennis McCusker. by the Donnybrook RSL Sub-
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