Tag: Anzac
RSL backs call for more Jacka Victoria Crosses
By NOEL MURPHY
TORQUAY RSL has backed the bid for Geelong’s World War I hero Albert Jacka to be awarded two more Victoria Crosses.
Jacka, who...
Call to give Albert Jacka two extra Victoria Cross medals
AUSTRALIA’S first Victoria Cross winner deserves two more, according to the family of Albert Jacka.
But the Winchelsea hero was a victim of “injustice” for...
City Hall to light up for Anzac centenary
A SPECIAL lighting projection will transform City Hall tribute to the men and women who served during World War I.
Designed for City Hall as...
WWI warbirds headed for Avalon airshow
A SQUADRON of World War I fighters will attack Avalon’s airshow next month.
The New Zealand-based warbird collection -- including five German aircraft and five...
Our Darwin Defenders live on in college collection
By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN
MEMORIES of Australia’s Pearl Harbour - the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 - were entrusted to a Geelong school in...
Forgotten hero memorial plan
By Paul Millar
GEELONG'S Norm Lane paid the ultimate price in the service of his country.
But even residents of the suburb named after him, Norlane,...
Closter kicked on in Vietnam
By Paul Millar
FORMER Geelong Cats favourite Wayne Closter spilled blood while serving in Vietnam.
But it was on a football field rather than a war...
Our Brendan missing ‘sweetheart’
DRYSDALE’s Brendan Fox is living a lifelong dream as an army “termite” in the Middle East.
Deployed to Al Minhad Air Base in the United...
Local heroes typified Anzac spirit
By NOEL MURPHY
'We are the ragtime army,
The A-N-Z-A-C,
We cannot shoot, we won’t salute,
What bloody good are we?
And when we get to Berlin
The Kaiser he...
Japanese spy mission over Torquay, Bellarine ….
By NOEL MURPHY
As thousands gather at Point Impossible for the Anzac Day dawn service, few might be aware of the World War II Japanese...
Shandelle seeks new musical horizons
Shandelle Cooke is one of Geelong’s best-loved performers, but the chanteuse is not content to rest on her laurels.
This month Cooke launches two new...
