A big congratulations to all involved in the 5,000 Poppies project who, just this week, have hit the 10,000 poppy mark. The project, which calls for people to crotchet, knit or otherwise create poppies in the lead up to Anzac Day 2015 has been a great success and reached their initial target of 5,000 poppies within the space of 6 months…. they have now set their sights on 25,000.

Head over to their blog at http://5000poppies.wordpress.com/ and read all about this inspirational project.

Responding to calls for help from the Front   

Twelve nurses from Victoria from the hospital ship A61 HMAT Kanowna in July 1916. Photo courtesy of the Australian War Memorial.

The Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize tour is now in it’s second day. At a ceremony on Lemnos, Greece, Beaufort Secondary College student Bianca Gerrard visits the memorial site of her adopted digger Donald Alexander Gordon Chisholm, who was killed in action on 2 September 1915 when HMAT Southland was torpedoed near Lemnos, Greece.

Find out more about the Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize.

“Tending the grave of fallen mates.”

Three soldiers in a cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula tend the grave of Private Patrick Michael McDonough, a Victorian soldier who was killed in action on 5 July 1915. Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. See WWI in Pictures at our Image Gallery.

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Click here for more information on the Victorian Veterans Council’s new Anzac Centenary Community Grants Program. 

Visit the Federal Government’s Gallipoli 2015 website for more information on the Ballot

STORY ADDED, Colour Sergeant Major Vernon Henry Barber