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Crystal is photo bombed by police while posing for a photo in Main Street, Pakenham, during the popular Yakkerboo Festival. 179960 Picture: ROB CAREW
Crystal wasn't the only one having a ball at Yakkerboo over the weekend. These three police officers wanted to get in on the act and - using stealth that would make their academy trainers proud - moved in for a genuine photo bomb. The beach ball carrying Crystal was none the wiser as Gazette photographer Rob Carew captured the magic moment. The photo sums up the mood of another successful Yakkerboo Festival, with thousands turning out on Saturday night for the fireworks on on Sunday for the street parade and festival. Organising committee president Michael Porter was thrilled with the support shown by the wider Pakenham community. For more on Yakkerboo, turn to pages 55-57.
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than 80 prisoners. The fighting moved on to Plateau Wood, where he and his men were involved in horrible hand-to-hand fighting, but they turned the enemy’s ‘stubborn defence into abject surrender’. When he returned after World War I, Lieutenant Joynt took up a soldier settlement block in Berwick and later moved to Kallista. He became a long-standing and respected member of the Emerald RSL and wrote three books. Turn to pages 4-5 to read more about the book launch and Lieutenant Joynt’s amazing story.
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Joynt took charge of his unit after his company commander had been killed. He led his men forward to support the leading battalion which, on approaching Herleville Wood, had lost all their officers, become disorganised and were pinned down by heavy fire. Lieutenant Joynt reorganised the remnants of the battalion and got them moving. He quickly identified the position in the dense woods on his flank where the enemy fire was coming from. Dashing out in front of his men, he spurred them on and inspired them into a full-frontal bayonet attack on the woods. He overran the enemy, captured the position and took more
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A little under a century ago, the courage and leadership of 29-year-old Lieutenant William Donovan Joynt under heavy fire on the battlefields of Belgium earned him Australia’s highest military honour. The story of Lieutenant Joynt is among those now immortalised in a book that has unearthed the back stories of all 100 of our Victoria Cross recipients. Berwick author Michael Madden’s “labour of love” for the past four years, The Victoria Cross: Australia Remembers was launched with much pomp and ceremony at Bunjil Place in Narre Warren on Saturday. It tells how, on 23 August 1918, Lieutenant
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