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SERVICE BULLETIN The Voice of the Club Community
Issue 4, April 2015
okoda Youth leadership C IN THIS ISSUE
News in Brief
WA Surf crews pay tribute
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Bring them Home
Teaching kids the ANZAC message
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Karen Giles
CHIEF EXECUTIVE Karen Giles
We are thrilled to be able to produce a commemorative version of the Service Bulletin, to remember and honour those who fought and continue to fight for our country, commencing with our ANZACS.
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It is incredible to think that 100 years will soon pass since the historical landing on Gallipoli Beach and the subsequent battles the Australian and Allied soldiers faced. A century has passed since that day and yet the legend of the ANZAC is fresh in all of our minds and hearts as if it were yesterday.
For a short time he was also Aide de Camp for a General at the Nuremberg Trials immediately after the war. He then returned home to complete studies at Oxford and to later to teach at Cambridge, and sadly passed at the age of 39 from Multiple Sclerosis. It is during this time that we recognise all those involved, from our families to our nation as a whole, in the war efforts that have shaped our country. This April issue of the Service Bulletin aims to highlight just some of our clubs and club members that are keeping the ANZAC spirit alive. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all clubs and club members that silently continue shaping our communities since the foundation of the club industry after World War II.
Much of this connection is due to the stories that we share through the generations. From my own family I am proud to share with you a short synopsis of three men that I unfortunately never had the opportunity to meet. My great grandfather Robbie served a short time as a Padre in France during WWI. His eldest son Foster served as a Captain with the Indian Army and was killed in Malaya by a sniper in 1941. His youngest son, my grandfather, was 19 years old when he joined the Reconnaissance Corp as Lieutenant, attained the rank of Captain and served in Europe in active reconnaissance of enemy locations, including behind enemy lines. He also taught cadets at Sandhurst the finer points of map reading, a skill at which he excelled.
Robbie Giles (left) with son Brian (right) just after WWII.
~ The Voice of the Club Community
CLUBS WA PRESIDENT Wally Maker
METRO COMMITTEE MEMBER Don Bartlem
METRO COMMITTEE MEMBER Geof Irvin
REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT Greg Hadlow
REGIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBER Stan Sherry
REGIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBER Max McDonald
METRO VICE PRESIDENT Keith Bransby
METRO COMMITTEE MEMBER Chris Richardson
METRO COMMITTEE MEMBER Ray Mansfield
TREASURER Tom Helm
REGIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBER Ray Maclean
REGIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBER Leone Bolto
Please address emails for State Councillors to info@clubswa.com.au
News in Brief
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Two golf clubs come together The Royal Fremantle Golf Club has recently come to a reciprocal agreement with the Burleigh Golf Club in Queensland. Both clubs have met to revise policies regarding members and guests and to reach an agreement that is going to be enjoyed by members from both states. The Gold Coast club offers members unique and challenging courses, which are playable year-round and use revolutionary course machinery, recycled water and innovative turf management techniques. Members from their home club can take advantage of their new partner club and visit up to five times per year. Visiting members are able to enter club events, however they cannot be awarded trophies or associated medals – this is to ensure all regalia is kept within their respective club. Last chance to nominate for the Clubs WA Awards for Excellence Nominations for the prestigeous Western Australian club industry awards close on April 10, 2015. This is your last chance to nominate your club, volunteers or members for one of the 14 different categories. With an expected attendance of more than 450 club industry representatives, the event will be held on Saturday June 13 at Crown Perth. Contact the Clubs WA office today to nominate and reserve tickets before they are all gone.
Exclusive rates on Crown Metropol and Crown Promenade accomodation for the Clubs WA Awards Crown is offering discounted rates to Clubs WA members who are travelling to the area for the 2015 Awards for Excellence on June 13, 2015. Members can take advantage of the special rates at either the Crown Metropol or the Crown Promenade. Contact Clubs WA for more information. *Conditions and exclusions apply. Channel Seven and West Perth Falcons Sponsorship Dilemma West Australian Football League (WAFL) team the West Perth Falcons are refusing to remove the logo on their guernseys that promotes Channel Nine, while Channel Seven is demanding its removal. Due to this, Channel Seven is unlikely to broadcast any West Perth games as their rival station is being promoted. The Falcons agreed to a sponsorship deal with Channel Nine in March 2014, and desperately depend on this sponsorship to ensure the continued survival of the club. At the time the Falcons signed the agreement, the WAFL games were being broadcasted on the ABC network.
WA Club moves to higher ground The WA Club has recently made the move from its old premises at 101 St George’s Terrace, into the top level of the Grosvenor Building. The new penthouse premise boasts spectacular views of the Perth CBD, Swan River and Kings Park. The Club has been revamping its already trusted image in an effort to expand its membership base.
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Holden recognises that local sporting clubs are an integral part of the Australian way of life, and they want to make a long term commitment to helping grass roots through the Holden Home Ground Advantage project. Clubs can apply for a grant of up to $10,000 or $100,000. Second round applications open on June 1, 2015. For more information please email communitysupport.holden@gm.com
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ANZAC Day holiday wage rates As ANZAC Day this year falls on a Saturday, the Public and Bank Holidays Act states that the following Monday will also qualify as a Public Holiday. As both Supporting Local Clubs for the next 10 years Saturday April 25 and Monday April 27 are classed The Holden Home Ground Advantage is supporting as Public Holidays, the Registered and Licensed Clubs local sporting clubs for the next 10 years by Award 2010 states that club employees who work on committing $5 million to develop and improve club these dates need to be paid public holday rates. facilities. Twice a year Holden will provide $250,000 worth of grants to sporting clubs who need assistance For more information on ANZAC wage rates please - that’s $500,000 every year, for ten years. contact the Clubs WA office.
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(Back) Trigg Island Crew, (Front) Vanessa Barby and Premier Colin Barnett.
WA Surf Life Saving Clubs pay tribute to our ANZACs BY JESS SHANKS - MARKETING INTERN
Two passionate Western Australian Surf Life Saving Clubs have teamed up with surf clubs from across Australia, New Zealand and Turkey to pay tribute to our ANZACs. The spectacular event – termed Gallipoli 100 – has members from the Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club and Trigg Island Surf Life Saving Club traveling to Istanbul, during the 100th Annual ANZAC Day celebration to commemorate the brave people who fought during World War 1.
“The teams will be assembling along the Gallipoli Peninsular for a grueling 60km row. In Western Australia we experience warm weather and beautiful oceans, but over there it will be a bit more difficult. The crews will be wearing thermals and will have to think about the different currents and new sea conditions.”
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“The Cottesloe Surf Club is the oldest Surf Life Saving Club along the WA coast and the only club to have Approximately 30 teams will participate in the two- people serving in WW1 at the time of being a club day marathon, which will see them row more than member. Our members have a long history of serving 22kms on the first day, finishing at Morto Bay, which in both World Wars and in Korea and Vietnam. It’s is known as one of the landing spots for French the same spirit that caused members to recognise soldiers. The second day of the event will be broken the dangers of drowning in their community and to into four legs and teams will row about 40kms. form the Surf Club, as the spirit that carries people to fight for their country in War. It’s this same spirit Each of the teams will pass closely by ‘V’ Beach where again, that sees people volunteer in their local club the British first came ashore when they rammed the and community.” boats up onto the beach, and soldiers were met by torturous resistance from three Turkish machine guns.
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The members of the crew and volunteers will share a unique memory as they race past every major landing point of the 1915 conflict, including past the highly concentrated landing areas of ANZAC Cove and North beach. They will pass in the vicinity of Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club Crew. Fisherman’s Hut where most of our soldiers never made it past the beach. Members from Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club and Trigg Island Surf Life Saving Club both have personal Cottesloe Surf Life Saving Club President Ben ties with World War 1. Amongst the members of Stephens says a collection of crews from a variety of the Cottesloe Club, 46 served during the First World clubs across Australia will team up to commemorate War, and a number of Trigg Island’s members have this special anniversary. relatives who also served during WW1.
In honour of these valiant men and women, 1024 names of the WA servicemen who passed away at Gallipoli have been written inside both of the WA boats to preserve the memory of those lost during the war. The Cottesloe Crew have also dedicated an honour board on the inside bow of their boat where the names of the 46 Cottesloe surf members who served will be remembered. There will be ten stars placed next to the names of those who never made it home.
Vanessa said the crews will be in Gallipoli for nine days in total, and will be able visit alot of historical places. “On the last night, the entire Gallipoli 100 Crew will celebrate together at the 100th Anniversary Ball that will be held at the Istanbul Convention Centre. Everyone from the Trigg Crew will be wearing matching colours, as will the Cottesloe Crew. We have become very close with the Cottesloe Crew and we have learnt a lot from them and hopefully they have learnt a little from us.”
Trigg Island Crew Team Manager Vanessa Barby says the crew will always be thinking about the ANZACs throughout their journey. “We have tried to incorporate the ANZAC image into all of our equipment, boat and uniforms and we hired a graphic designer who has created a beautiful logo for the crew. It depicts the ANZAC Rising Star to represent the ANZACs, rowing oars to represent all of the surf boat crews, and poppies and gulls which represent the lost soldiers. Hanging off two of the oars are the Trigg Crews cap, as well as the Scarboro Surf Life Saving Club’s colours, as we are lucky to have a member from the Scarboro Club join us.”
“Everyone on the crew has their own link to the ANZACs, and if they don’t have a direct link, they know how amazing this event will be and they want to be a part of it. It truly is a once in a lifetime event.” “Australians today have amazing lives, and we are who we are today, because of those who lost their lives and fought for us during the wars. It’s because of them that we have choices in life and we are thankful. My father will march in an ANZAC Day parade in Australia, and he will be wearing his father’s medals, as well as the medals of his brother who disappeared during WW2. The ANZAC Spirit means everything - it is who we are, and what we are today.” Both of the Western Australian crews are made up of experienced competitor rowers, who have been training since the decision was made four-years ago to join this unbelievable event.
“I know that we will all come back different people, and we will see things differently. It is going to be an exceptionally emotional event and it is an absolute honour to be a part of it.”
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Both crews will arrive in Istanbul on April 20, and will go straight to the cruise ship that they will be staying on throughout the event. Each morning the crews will leave from the cruise ship to begin their rowing. At midnight on April 24, the crews will leave the ship and will row to the shoreline of Gelibolu to watch the ANZAC Dawn Service. During the service a sign will be given to the boat crews to raise their oars up out of the water as a sign of respect. After the service the crews will be treated as guests of the local town and will participate in various events throughout the day.
Vanessa said that four years ago someone brought up the idea to join the Gallipoli 100 event, and straight away she wanted to be a part of it. “It is a huge commitment to make, and over the past four years people have had to pull out of the event, but we are lucky enough to gain other people. The crews are self-funded and we have got sponsors on board, and held a number of events to raise funds - but it will be completely worth it.”
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“The crews have been training everyday, either on the water or in the gym. We have also converted one of our boats here so it has rollerseats, as that is what the crews will be using over there. Our crew needs the fitness behind them, so we have been training a lot.”
Team Manager and Coach Rob Turner said the 60km race requires the team to significantly increase their endurance levels to compete over such a long distance.
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Clubs ~ the heart of the community
On the Sunday morning following the fire, a few local residents began to float through the club seeking refuge, but it was still fairly quiet. Manager of the Club’s Community Centre facility, Janet Kemp said as the week progressed the club just got busier as more people arrived. “We could see the smoke from the club and the firefighters were on watch to be prepared if the fire came towards us. Only 15kms from the club there were blankets of smoke covering the road intersections – so we were always on the lookout but we were luckily never threatened.” “Our volunteers and club members were running around helping everyone and the people from Manjimup and the surrounding communities were ringing us constantly to offer their support. They were asking if we needed any blankets or equipment and many of them were offering agistment for the pets and animals of people who were evacuated. The Country Women’s Association were in the kitchen preparing meals for all of the residents and volunteers – they were amazing.” Janet said that despite what was happening around them and how busy it was, the place was quite calm and very organised. “The DPW and DCP were very organised and had a great registration system set up for incoming people, and for those who needed to contact family members. Everyone was very worried, but the organisations involved were so organised that the atmosphere was never chaotic.”
Janet said there were always people in and out of the club during the day, and at least 50 people staying each night. “The club was able to provide a ‘shell’ with the Departments implementing their systems to help. I would assist people around the club as needed and ensure that everyone had what they needed to be comfortable.” “In towns like this, the background is completely about the community. In times like this the town always comes together and the efforts of all of the organisations involved show the comradery of local communities. Children from the local schools were in the Club kitchen preparing snack packs for volunteers and firefighters, and they were writing notes to the firefighters which were hidden in the packed lunches. I know that a few of the firefighters contacted the children afterwards to thank them.” “We are a community, and clubs and organisations have to protect their community.” “We are getting back to normal now and will take everything we have learnt to help prepare us even better next time. The sense of comradery within the club has been amazing.”
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Not long after the fires started, local firefighters began urging residents to make their way to the local evacuation centre, the Pemberton Sports Club. Normally a place for a friendly game of football or netball, the club quickly transformed into a bustling hive of activity for the local Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPW) and the Department of Child Protection (DCP).
Being a Shire building, the club has always been an evacuation centre and were therefore prepared. Volunteers and staff had set up sleeping facilities on the indoor basketball courts and in the crèche. St John Ambualnce had set up a first-aid room to provide medical aid and support.
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On Friday, January 30 terrible lightning caused large fires in the Northcliffe area and the town of Pemberton. The flames quickly grew to a staggering 20-metres, threatening local towns and bushland.
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Krista McMeeken - where is she now?
BY JESS SHANKS & CAITLIN MORTIMORE - MARKETING INTERNS
Krista McMeeken was the most recent winner to lifestyle that can continually be improved through participate in Clubs WA’s Kokoda Youth Leadership our relationships with our friends, our colleagues Challenge in 2013, having been chosen when she and our community.” was 22 years of age. Krista was greatly influenced by her grandfather who had walked the Kokoda trail during the War and she wanted to “walk in the footsteps of our soldiers” and acquire a unique perspective of the servicemen who served with her grandfather.
“For me, the ANZAC Spirit is all about appreciating what we have and ‘fighting’ to make it better.”
“As a result I am constantly working to learn more about, and contribute to, our West Australian In the 15-weeks leading up to the gruelling trek, community.” Krista trained six days a week in order to prepare herself physically and mentally. After finishing the Krista says she reflects back on her 2013 Kokoda momentous event, Krista said “I can only be in awe journey regularly. “Perhaps one of my favourite of the servicemen who did this.” memories is listening to our carriers sing, and learning about their culture around the campfire. Although, walking through the archway, having completed our trek, was an indescribable feeling that will always stay with me.
Krista says that she tries to keep the ANZAC Spirit alive throughout her everyday life. “I try to use my skills to act as a leader within the community, Where is Krista now? and in areas where I need development I seek out mentors and role models to guide me – leadership and mateship being two of the key learnings from the ANZAC story. As Australians we have such a valuable ... Continued on page 11
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“I haven’t missed a Dawn Service yet, whether in Australia or abroad, so this year I will be attending the Dawn Service with my family. Mum always proudly wears my grandfather’s medals. Then it is on to a gunfire breakfast and watching the RSL parades. My favourite part of any ANZAC Day service is to see the current service personnel with our ex-servicemen and women and to see the continuing pride and tradition across generations of Australians.
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Krista was chosen by the Selection Committee due to her outstanding community efforts and her aspiration to reconcile and bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. In 2013, at the time of her nomination, Krista was a fulltime lawyer by day and a community crusader by night. She was a former Miss NAIDOC Perth, and was inducted into the 2011 Women’s Hall of Fame. The day before she left Australia to take part in the trek, Krista received a Pride of Australia Medal, which is one of Australia’s most honoured community endeavours.
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Trek and I will continue to be involved in projects and programmes which seek to engage young people, encourage further education and build connections between Indigenous cultures and the broader community.”
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Krista was recently named one of the finalists for the 2015 Young Australian of the Year for WA. While working in the construction team at Jackson “Being nominated for the Australian of the Year McDonald, she has still kept up all of her volunteering Awards is a great honour and every year 128 commitments in her spare time, which includes remarkable Australians from the across the country working with the Law Society of WA’s Aboriginal are recognised.” “I have kept up my advocacy for Lawyers Committee and the Museum for Freedom Australia’s recognition of International Law and adherence to its international obligations, which is and Tolerance. particularly poignant at present with issues such as On top of these commitments, Krista was approached the forced closure of remote Aboriginal communities by Celebrate WA to become a member of their Board in Western Australia.” Committee. “I was approached after taking part in a consultation process - which Celebrate WA facilitated Krista says she has always felt a strong sense of - on how to best engage Indigenous peoples and advocacy relating to Indigenous issues, and as an culture in WA Day celebrations. This is my first Board Aboriginal female lawyer she can help others. She position and it has been an exciting program to be a helps open up new opportunities for Indigenous part of, as well as an enriching learning experience.” people by assisting students with their studies, working on anti-cyber racism projects, and helping “I continue to be involved in all of the same the Aboriginal Legal Service seek compensation experiences that led to my selection for the Kokoda under the Stolen Wages Reparation Scheme.
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Operation Bring them Home BY JESSICA SHANKS - MARKETING INTERN
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The Vietnam War was a catalyst for the greatest social and political dissent in Australia since the conscription referendums of the First World War. It was the longest twentieth century conflict in which Australia was involved and more than 60,000 Aussies sacrificed themselves for the cause.
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Operation ‘Bring Them Home’ is an initiative of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia NT Branch, and has full and unanimous support from the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia.
Project Director of the Bring them Home campaign and Vice President of the NT Vietnam Veterans To serve in the Vietnam War meant surviving an Association Bob Shewring became interested in this unrelenting environment where humidity could issue a few years ago. “I got involved several years reach 100 per cent, and the tropical environment ago in researching how we could bring the only meant soldiers were constantly battling sickness. Northern Territory killed-in-action (KIA) Vietnam Cpl The cruelty of the Vietnam War did not end there for Reg Hillier MIID home, who I grew up with and is the soldiers who survived, for once they landed on buried in Terendak Cemetery. His nephew Neil Bond Australian soil they were faced with a new battle – states that his mother (Reg’s sister and nominated opposition from their own country. next of kin) were “never contacted in regard to bringing him home”.” In the early years, there was considerate support for Australia’s involvement, and Australian Battalions “Further research has indicated that if you could returning from Vietnam were welcomed with afford 500 pounds they were repatriated. A big ask, home parades and celebrations. However, as our considering that in 1965 the average weekly wage commitment grew and conscripts began to make was 21 pounds 8 Shillings and Sixpence. This anomaly up a large percentage of those being deployed and is further compounded by the fact that the first KIA killed, opposition grew. The public increasingly was repatriated back to Australia, yet the second was came to believe that the war was being lost, and the buried in Kranji Cemetery Singapore.” opposition continued to grow until more than 200,000 people marched the streets across Australia’s major According to a 1966 Hansard excerpt, from the cities in 1970. commencement of the Vietnam War until 24 February 1966 a total of 32 soldiers were KIA or died Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War began as a result of wounds, of these 11 were buried in in 1962, when the first troops from the Australian Terendak, two were missing in action, and the other Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) first landed 19 were repatriated - nine at Government expense in South Vietnam in July and August. Almost 60,000 and 10 by next-of-kin. Australians, including ground troops, air force, and navy personnel served in Vietnam and 521 died as a Bob believes that this was not fair on the families result of the war and more than 3,000 were wounded. who couldn’t afford to pay for their soldiers to come home. “This practice smacks of discrimination based So far, only 496 bodies of Australian soldiers killed on whether widows or relatives could afford to pay in the Vietnam War have been brought home to the required 500 pounds, or if the Government Australia to be buried by their families and loved decided to pay, a cruel practice considering these ones. Today, 25 Aussie souls are still in the country soldiers made the Supreme Sacrifice in doing their where they were killed, with 24 soldiers buried in job for their country, a terrible shame,” Bob says. the Terendak General Christian Cemetery in Malaysia and one lone soldier buried at the Kranji Cemetery in As a result of Parliamentary decision made on Singapore. January 21, 1966 all soldiers killed in action or who
died as a result of wounds were to be repatriated at Government expense back home to Australia, and the families that paid the 500 pounds would be repaid. However, it was stated that the 25 soldiers who are buried outside of Australia would not be repatriated.
to be buried in the Adelaide River War Cemetery in the Northern Territory.
The Bring Them Home campaign will seek to petition the Prime Minister of Australia and bring it to national attention that this is “one of the most important Lesumrdie Club member and Clubs WA Committee issues confronting our Vietnam Veterans today”. Member, Geoff Irvin has vowed his full support to Bob Shewring’s campaign to bring our soldiers home. “I was only recently made aware of operation Bring Them Home and as a Vietnam Veteran I immediately felt both repulsed and saddened by the fact that our own were killed in action and buried in a foreign place. I am fully aware of the lives lost of civilians and service people overseas during previous wars and are buried throughout the world but conditions have changed now and during the Vietnam War, bodies could be repatriated to their own country which was impossible during the earlier conflicts. I always believed they were returned, it’s obvious some were not.”
Bob says that if families, like Reg Hillier’s family in the Northern Territory, would like to bring the body of their loved one home, then he will do the up-most to ensure this happens. In the case of Reg, this means
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“This will bring about closure to the Vietnam Veterans widows, their descendants and for the whole Vietnam Veteran community once and for all, and finally with dignity and honour, lay them to rest, back home in Australia with the rest of the Vietnam War dead. It is our intention to contact every next-of-kin or descendants of the 24 buried in Terendak and the one soldier buried in Kranji cemeteries to determine whether they wish to bring their loved ones home or are at peace with them laying where they are. If the relatives do not want repatriation to happen, then their wishes will of course be respected.”
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Bob continued to say, “This clinical response greatly disturbed the family and our members, and from that point on I became committed to doing whatever we can do to bring them all home. As Reg Hillier’s nephew said, ‘it’s the right and proper thing to do’.”
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Passing on the ANZAC message to the next generation Almost every club and RSL club will be heavily involved in this year’s ANZAC Centenary, as they join their local communities in paying homage to the brave men and women who fought for our nation in past conflicts.
Ric shares with the children the below quote (author unknown), which he believes encompasses the ANZAC Spirit.
“When things are tough – whether it be on the sports field or in the face of natural disaster – there is an The Serpentine-Jarrahdale RSL Club has many events internal strength summoned up in order to cope with happening throughout the month of April. Former the adversity - it is known as the ANZAC Spirit. This SAS Officer and Club President Ric Giblett says their spirit, shown by the original ANZACs on Gallipoli, in biggest project is their Children’s ANZAC Art Expo the Middle East and on the Western Front is well which will be held at the Byford Hall in the first week recognised. But what were the unique qualities of the school holidays, from the 13th to the 25th of displayed by the ANZACs that combined to forge The April. ANZAC Spirit? Mateship, Courage, Humour, Ingenuity, Endurance, Individualism.”
Ric Giblett visiting a local school.
Armadale RSL Club President Ken Hepburn shares the same views as Ric, and shares the ANZAC message with the local Armadale children.
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“The Armadale RSL Club is supporting Armadale’s 30odd schools to help commemorate the memory of the ANZACs, and to help kids learn and experience the spirit of the ANZAC and what happened 100 years ago. We want to teach them that the ANZAC Spirit can be kept alive by helping people in their communities – especially by helping people they do not know. The spirit can be kept alive even 100 years on.”
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“I have been visiting each of the nine schools in the Serpentine-Jarrahdale district to speak with the kids and engage them and motivate them to get behind the ANZACs. I tell them about the message and spirit of the ANZACs and show them how they can use it in their own lives, by doing their best work, and respecting their friends and community. I try and relate the history to them, and I share with them the story of the youngest guy to die on active service - at just 14 years and nine months this kid died on a hospital ship in Gallipoli. Most of the kids I speak to at school are the same age or older so it really resonates with them. I relate the qualities of mateship and courage back to this generation and tell them how it applies to bullying – there was no bullying during the ANZACS, each man and women stood by each other. I believe if our country needed help, today’s younger generations would step up and perform just as bravely as those who have fought with us in the past.”
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