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Family destroyed by battle
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
IN LESS than a year the Great War claimed the lives of both the Kent brothers.
The first of the Narre Warren siblings...
Town hall welcome home
WOUNDED Gallipoli veteran George Pearson was lauded as a hero when he returned to Dandenong in October 1915.
Grainy photographs taken outside the Dandenong Town...
War’s school of hard knocks
By NARELLE COULTER
THE ghosts of Lighthorsemen past ride on at Dandenong High School, their memory preserved in the school’s official colours - dark blue,...
Study tour across history
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
THIS month 15-year-old Hayley Hickey stood looking over Anzac Cove and was lost for words.
The current Year 10 student from Fountain Gate...
Wheels roll in to back local manufacturing
By CASEY NEILL
“A GERM of an idea around a dinner table” grew into a traffic-stopping showcase of Dandenong’s manufacturing strength.
Calls to create an annual...
First in the line of bravery
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
NARRE Warren's Neville Jacka reckons his ancestor Albert Jacka must have been a “little bit crazy” to perform such incredible acts of...
Fortitude shows the Anzac spirit is in us all
By John Wells
Dandenong Cranbourne RSL president
The Anzacs are still here.
The centenary of the landings at Gallipoli is a great opportunity for us all...
Life scarred by war horrors
Journal columnist Jack Johnson is the son of a World War I veteran. In this special commemorative edition Jack writes “with love to our...
Women’s work for war wounded
NURSES were often the unsung heroes of the Gallipoli campaign.
Behind the front lines they patched up wounded soliders and comforted men who were destined...
Artist in action
By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
HARKAWAY always served as a constant in the life of nurse Jessie Traill, both before and after her service in World War...
Memories kept in silent sleep
By MAREE ROWE
THE first name on the World War I honour board that hangs in Dandenong’s Drum Theatre is that of Albert Edward Alexander.
Private...
Historic dawn rises
WITH war still raging in Europe, the Dandenong community gathered at the town’s state primary school on 25 April 1916 to commemorate the first...
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Hope is a choice: be the light that shines through darkness
Life today is challenging.
Life today is definitely filled with uncertainty and finding hope can sometimes feel like searching for light in the darkness....
