South Australian Military
A re-enactment of South Australian military before Federation at the Macclesfield Oval, where a group including the Armed Services, the RSL and the local Council established a Memorial Gardens.
Black ANZAC's - Mural Timelapse 2015
Timelapse of the mural Artist Hego (@_hego) did in Meningie, South Australia honouring Aboriginal soldiers from WW1.
Part of the documentary Black Anzac by Stationary Movement Film (stationarymovement.com) - coming soon!
This video is dedicated to all Australian soldiers, past & present who have served in conflicts at home & abroad
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Voice over: Luke Carroll
Poem: Black Anzac Cecil Fisher, 1933
Images for mural used from book Ngarrindjeri Anzacs by Doreen Kartinyeri) with permission from direct descendents of soldiers depicted & South Australian museum
Drone footage by PremiAir Productions
Shot on location in Meningie, South Australia
Halcombe ANZAC Day Homecoming Centenary 2019
This is an ANZAC day service marking the centenary of the homecoming of the soldiers returning from the First World War, to a small town named Halcombe, on the North Island Main Trunk Line in New Zealand
The celebration was conducted by the Halcombe Community Development Group. The community group wanted to highlight that 2019 marks the last year of the official five-year commemoration of The Great War. They arranged plans to make this year’s service the pinnacle event, with a re-enactment of Halcombe's local soldiers' arriving home in 1919.
The Steam locomotive, F163, hauled a three car consist from Fielding to Halcombe and return. The train and supporting staff were supplied by Fielding & District Steam Rail Society. The train was operated by KiwiRail team members. F163 was built in Glasgow Scotland and entered into service in 1881. At age 138, it is New Zealand's oldest locomotive allowed out and about on the KiwiRail Network.
ANZAC Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who have served and died in war, conflicts and on peacekeeping operations. It is observed on 25 April each year. ANZAC Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli Campaign which was their first engagement in the The Great War (1914–1918).
This video features the Rangitikei Pipe Band led by Barry Williams.
The Song featured near the end of this video is called 'Sons Of Gallipoli' and is sung by Val Andrews. The song gained prominence on Anzac Day 2009 when it was sung at a televised memorial service in Wellington by it's composer Chris Skinner SM. Ten years later, the song has become a regular feature at ANZAC services around NZ.
Sons Of Gallipoli
We sang —God of Nations at thy feet—
As we stood on that sacred shore
With a heartfelt pride
Somewhere deep inside
For the sons of Gallipoli
We sang —E Ihowa Atua—
From the place they call Anzac Cove
We gazed out to sea
Where our home would be
For the sons of Gallipoli
How still you lie
And how still you die on other hillsides.
We sang —hear our voices we entreat—
As the wind blew from off the sea
With a tearful sigh and the question why
For the sons of Gallipoli
We sang —God defend our free land—
And for all whose lives are torn
With one voice implore
No more talk of war
For the sons of Gallipoli.
Celebrating - BUILDING A RAILWAY, CONNECTING THE NATION
On 14th September 1912 the turning of the Sod to commence the construction of the 1692 KM Transcontinental Railway Line took place.
After passing a Federal Act in 1907, £20,000 was allocated for a preliminary survey. Two survey groups then set out from Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie marking the proposed route with camels dragging heavy chains and chainmen following with pegs and cairns. Meeting at the Western and South Australian border, the Western contingent travelled 716kms whilst their Eastern counterparts traversed 978kms.
Post survey, a 1063 mile (1712km) rail line was estimated at £4,045,000 and on 6 December 1911, the Bill for the Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta Railway Act was passed.
Friday 14 September 2012 marks 100 years since the first sod was turned by the Governor General in Port Augusta, South Australia to build the TAR. Although construction had already commenced, the Governor General, Prime Minister, Governor of South Australia, Minister of Defence, Minister for Home Affairs, Premier of South Australia, Members of Federal Parliament and the Mayor of Port Augusta all gathered for the official turning of the first sod by Lord Denman.
Like the survey, construction set out from Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie. Continuing through World War I, labour and materials were limited and costs exceeded £6,000,000 with an additional £866,000 spent on rolling stock.
After deviating slightly from the surveyed path, East and West rails were linked and the TAR was completed on Wednesday 17 October 1917, exactly 1051 miles or 1690kms in length.
Rare Fowler Ware 2
This One was Found In the Terminus Hotel At strathalbyn this is not a Siphonic one.. it is alwyas like this there are a few of these in other country towns
Tan Le - How to Be More Productive
Tan Le is an innovator, inventor & entrepreneur, and is the Founder and CEO of EMOTIV. Born in South Vietnam, Le migrated to Australia as a refugee with her family in 1981. Le began university studies at the age of 16 and went on to complete a bachelor's degree in law (honors) and commerce (honors) in 1998 at Monash University. In 1998, Le was named Young Australian of the Year and voted one of Australia's 30 Most Successful Women Under 30. Le's story was featured in the 'Hope' section of the Eternity Exhibition of the National Museum of Australia. Le has been featured in Who's Who in Australia List since 1999, Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology in 2010 and Forbes' 50 Names You Need to Know in 2011.
Le has been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader since 2009. Le was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2013. She currently serves on the Board of Stewards on Shaping the Future of Information & Entertainment of the World Economic Forum and the Global Future Council on the Future of Neurotechnologies & Brain Science of the World Economic Forum.
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Victor Harbor 1999
Traditionally home of the Ramindjeri clan of the Ngarrindjeri people, the bay on which Victor Harbor sits was discovered by Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator in April 1802. As part of the first circumnavigation of the continent, Flinders was surveying the then unknown southern Australian coast from the west. He encountered Nicolas Baudin in Le Geographe near the Murray Mouth several kilometres to the east of the present day location of Victor Harbor. Baudin was surveying the coast from the east for Napoleonic France. Although their countries were at war, each captain was given documents by the other nation's Government, stating that the ships were on scientific missions, and were therefore not to be regarded as ships of war. Together, the ships returned to the bay and sheltered, while the captains compared notes. Flinders named the bay Encounter Bay after the meeting.
In 1837 Captain Richard Crozier who was en route from Sydney to the Swan River Colony in command of the Cruizer-class HMS Victor, anchored just off Granite Island and named the sheltered waters in the lee of the island 'Victor Harbor' after his ship.About the same time two whaling stations were established, one at Rosetta Head (popularly known as the Bluff) and the other near the point opposite Granite Island. Whale oil became South Australia’s first export. From 1839 the whaling station was managed for a time by Captain John Hart, a later Premier of South Australia. The town of Port Victor was laid out on the shores of Victor Harbor in 1863 when the horse-drawn tramway from Goolwa was extended to the harbour. The last whale was caught off Port Victor in 1872.
The town's name was changed to 'Victor Harbor' in 1921, as a result, it is said, of a near shipwreck blamed on confusion with Port Victoria in the Yorke Peninsula. Despite the fact that harbour is normally spelt with a u in modern Australian English, the name of the city is spelt Victor Harbor. This spelling, found in several geographical names in South Australia, including Outer Harbor, is the result of spelling errors made by an early Surveyor General of South Australia. Conversely Victor Harbour railway station is spelt with the u.
View west from the bluff at Victor Harbor
At the start of the 20th Century, an attempt was made to make Port Victor, as it was then called, a main stop of mail-steamers
Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France
Video of this CWGC cemetery in northern France - here's what CWGC say about it Buissy was reached by the Third Army on 2 September 1918, after the storming of the Drocourt-Queant line, and it was evacuated by the Germans on the following day. Queant Cemetery was made by the 2nd and 57th Casualty Clearing Stations in October and November 1918. It then consisted of 71 graves (now Plot I, Rows A and B), but was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when 2200 graves were brought in from the battlefields of 1917-1918 between Arras and Bapaume, and from the following smaller burial grounds in the area:- BARALLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION, which was made in September 1918, contained the graves of 25 soldiers from the United Kingdom; and the GERMAN EXTENSION, from which two graves were brought. CAGNICOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, contained the grave of one soldier from the United Kingdom who fell in September 1918. LAGNICOURT (6th JAEGER REGIMENT) GERMAN CEMETERY, East of the village, contained 137 German graves and one British. NOREUIL BRITISH CEMETERIES No.1 and No.2. These were close together, about 400 metres North of Noreuil village. They were made in April-August 1917, and they contained the graves of 50 soldiers from Australia and 16 from the United Kingdom (some of these were re-buried in H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St. Mein). NOREUIL GERMAN CEMETERY No.1, next to Noreuil Australian Cemetery, contained 78 German graves and ten British. PRONVILLE GERMAN CEMETERY near the Cave, on the Western outskirts of Pronville, contained 17 British graves. PRONVILLE GERMAN CEMETERY No.4, South of Pronville on the road to Beaumetz, contained 83 German and 83 British graves (52 of the British being those of soldiers of the Black Watch). PROVILLE CHURCHYARD, contained two British graves. There are now 2,377 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,441 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 56 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 26 casualties buried in German cemeteries in the neighbourhood, whose graves could not be found on concentration. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM.
St George model boat club 02
Old Royal Doulton
This Old Royal Doulton Was In the Robin Hood Hotel Near the Room where i was staying in it has a Royal Doulton Cistern and Bowl and a Caroma Seat
X3 VP Strong St South Geelong
This Was During A Visit To The Former Me well Office In South Geelong. First Up We Have A LLC BTW Brandless Pan. Up Next A CC ROK Toilet. And Last A LL Raymor