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October 2018
Peace at last: a World War 1 Walk in Lang Lang Cemetery
Join us on a walk through the beautiful and historic Lang Lang Cemetery as we explore its connections with the Great War. Forty-eight families watched, waited and worried for 98 men who enlisted and tried to make it safely back home. Twenty-four made the supreme sacrifice; 15 were killed in action on the battlefields of the Western Front, 2 were killed at Gallipoli, 6 died of their wounds and 1 died during training at the Seymour Camp. While most of…
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November General Meeting
Clay Kruger from the Wendish Heritage Society will be our guest speaker in November. He will be presenting history from the fifth century of the Wends in Eastern Germany about their Ancestry, migration of their forbears from Hamburg, Germany to Australia from the 1830s focusing on Australian settlement. No need to book - visitors are always welcome.
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Christmas 2018 General Meeting
Well, we know a couple of elves who have plans for laughter and merry mischief and not much meeting for the night. And so, we're going along with it. Would members please bring a small plate of something delicious to share with everyone. Visitors are always welcome.
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NW&DFHG February general meeting
We've got a fabulous guest speaker for our first 2019 general meeting. Viv Paine was Site Manager, Pentridge Prison Redevelopment between 2002 - 2009. He will share with his first hand experiences of the time and the story of his research into the history of the site which led him to locate and recover 51 sets of executed prisoners' remains, including those of Ned Kelly (11 Nov 1880) and Ronald Ryan (3 Feb 1967), the last person to be executed in…
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March 2019 general meeting
We're very lucky to have Viv Paine coming back to talk to us this month after our February meeting was cancelled at the last minute. Viv Paine was Site Manager, Pentridge Prison Redevelopment between 2002 – 2009. He will share with his first hand experiences of the time and the story of his research into the history of the site which led him to locate and recover 51 sets of executed prisoners’ remains, including those of Ned Kelly (11 Nov 1880)…
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