Vietnam Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony

Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

18 August is the Anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan (1966) in which the heavily outnumbered men of D Company, 6 Royal Australian Regiment fought a fierce battle against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in a rubber plantation close to the village of Long Tan. In 1969, veterans of 6RAR installed a memorial ... Read more

Veterans’ Art for Health and Healing

Barkly Gardens, Mary Street Ri chmond Mary Street, Richmond, Victoria, Australia

Experience 'Veterans' Health Week' with a brush in one hand and a healthy snack in the other. Richmond RSL, Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (ANVAM), and Yarra City Council welcomes all Veterans and Yarra City park locals to join them in the spring sunshine with something for mind, body and soul. ANVAM will present an exhibition ... Read more

The Diggers’ Requiem Brass – Melbourne

St Pauls Cathedral 209 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Free Preview JOINTLY COMMISSIONED BY THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL AND THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS.     Diggers Requiem Brass brings you the spirit of the upcoming Diggers Requiem in a FREE concert not to be missed, commemorating the end of WWI. The Diggers' Requiem represents - in 12 movements - the battles of Fromelles, Pozières, Bapaume, Bullecourt, ... Read more

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2/10 Bty Happy Hour

Sargood Barracks, East St Kilda 6-10 Chapel Street, East St Kilda, VIC, Australia

    INVITATION   2/10 Battery mess committee would like to invite members, partners and friends to attend our Happy Hour function to be held on 28th September 2018 at the 2/10 Battery Mess, Sargood Barracks. We will have a poker night, role-playing games and a darts contest. Please come along for what should be ... Read more

2/2 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment  Remembrance service

Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The regiment served in the middle East, Papua New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies during the Second World War. Remembrance Wreath Laying at Memorial Tree D10 Shrine Representative: TBA  

75th anniversary of Australian work on Hellfire Pass & completion of Thai Burma Railway

Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat 1A Carlton Street, Lake Wendouree, Victoria, Australia

A national commemorative service to mark the 75th anniversary of Australian work on Hellfire Pass and the completion of the Thai–Burma Railway will be held on Tuesday, 16 October 2018 at the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Ballarat. For Australians, the most well-known of many notorious sites along the Thai–Burma railway was Hellfire Pass.  Named ... Read more

2/14 Field Regiment Remembrance service

Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The 2/14 Field Regiment was raised on 17 October 1940, initially headquartered at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, and later moved to Puckapunyal. They were stationed in New Guinea in 1944, providing necessary artillery support for the infantry and training; then moved to New Britain in January 1945 to relieve American troops and continue a limited offensive ... Read more

2/4th Field Regiment Association Remembrance service

Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  Raised in 1940, with many of its men and officers drawn from the 4th Australian Field Artillery Brigade based in St. Kilda, Melbourne, the 2/4th Field Regiment would go on to fight in North Africa and the Pacific. 2/4 Fd Regt Association welcome you to their service and wreath laying in the Sanctuary. Shrine ... Read more