Tag: Anzac Centenary
Service hears of casualty clearance flood
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
ANZAC Day saw hundreds of people gather before dawn at the war memorial in Main Street, Nar Nar Goon.
Spilling onto...
School’s service branches out
A PARTICULARLY special Anzac Day service was held at Lang Lang Primary School last week.
The school planted a Gallipoli oak seedling in a ceremony...
Age of Anzac is unbowed
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
AMONG the many attending Anzac Day services on Saturday morning were over 200 residents gathered at Cardinia Waters.
Held at the...
Berwick at a standstill
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
THERE are not many occasions that could bring the whole of High Street to a standstill, but Berwick’s Anzac Service...
Their names remain among us
By GARRY HOWE
EACH year Willem and Margaret Boon gather at the Beaconsfield cenotaph on the Sunday before Anzac Day to listen to...
We still remember them
A POEM entitled Lest We Forget was written by Pakenham’s Nathan Hughes and read out by him during the Pakenham dawn service on Anzac...
Tales of the men on the marble
FOREWORD by Gazette editor GARRY HOWE
THREE soldiers sit centre stage in a Kooweerup Hall emblazoned with flags, streamers and a huge Welcome Home banner.
It’s...
Veteran’s journey just beginning
By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
SELF-described ‘young veteran’ Lance-Corporal Scott May will think beyond Gallipoli this Anzac Day.
The Pakenham physiotherapist will ponder his comrades while he was...
MP was a true veteran
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
LESLIE James Cochrane lived an extraordinary life in many ways.
Born in Bentleigh in 1894, Leslie was the son of David...
From the Mother country, to a mother
THE letter received from Southampton by Mrs Roberts of Berwick, which was published in the Shire News on 26 April 1916.
FROM ENGLAND
Dear Mrs Roberts,
We...
Men were ‘nine-pins in a hurricane’
By GARRY HOWE
JULY 19, 1916, was a day that never left Sergeant Clair Whiteside.
The Reverend’s son from Officer spent a large part of that...
’With God’s help, I got out of it’
Dear Mother,
On the morning of the 19th plans were given out to the NCOs, who in turn had to get their sections and grenade...
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Cranbourne well represented in interleague squads
Five Cranbourne senior players have been selected in the Southern Football Netball League interleague squad set to play a one-off match against Riddell District...
