2024 AGM and Lunch
NOTICE OF 2024 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, with 2 course lunch to follow the AGM
Jan 14 2024 BBQ at One Tree Hill
Jan 14 2024 BBQ at One Tree Hill will commence at 1130 with a BBQ. Sausages, onion, bread, sauce, tea, coffee all provided, possibly cake or sweets. We trust that the Parks Vic Staff have trained the Kookaburras not to attend and steal our snags. An appropriate...
29 Sept 2023. AWM Memorial Service
The Australian War Memorial’s daily Last Post Service will on Friday 29th September 2023 will honour the 39th’s 2nd commanding officer, Lt Col Robert Oswald Henderson DSO. He was killed in action in France on 29th Sept 1918. Henderson was a builder’s...Broadwater-Southport Rotary Club Dinner 20 Sept
The Broadwater-Southport Rotary Club created the Kokoda Memorial Wall monument in Cascade gardens on the Gold Coast in 2006 to recognise the events of 1942 where the 39th Battalion and PIB initially and then supported by the 2/14th and 2/16th Battalions, delayed the Japanese advance from the North on Port Moresby.
Carrying on Under Fire
This fine book, also by Carl Johnson, describes how the Australian Medical Staff coped with being in the fire line and under Japanese control in captivity. Brave and courageous.
+ P&P included.