100 years ago today the Australian, New Zealand, French and British troops made their fateful pre-dawn amphibious landing on or near the Gallipoli peninsula.

…100 years ago today, having arrived at the seaport of Aden at the entrance to the Red Sea, Australian and New Zealand troops were diverted to Egypt as a garrison force to protect the Suez Canal against the Ottoman Turks.

100 years ago today – the HMAS Sydney sank the German Raider SMS Emden.  This was the first action fought by the Royal Australian Navy.

The official opening of the Voyager Centre Renovations will take place at 10:45 on Friday 10th October 2014.

A BBQ lunch will be served in the forecourt of the Voyager Centre beginning at 12:0 noon.

Today, 14th September, we commemorate Australian Peacekeeper’s and Peacemaker’s Day – let us remember, commemorate and celebrate Australian peacekeeping past, present and future.

It is hard to try and picture the millions of soldiers and civilians killed in the Great War (WW1). This picture goes some way of showing how many that number is. Remember as you look at the photos each and every poppy stands for one life lost. It is breath-taking and very sad at the same time.

100 years ago –  on this day and for the next seven days (until 17 September 1914) the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Forces (AN&MEF) troops skirmished with Melanesian and German troops at Bitapaka in the German colony of New Guinea while attempting to capture a nearby radio outpost.  The four Australians killed in the action were the first of the 60,000 Australian troops to fall in WW1.