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Port Pirie Garden of Memory Cemetery.
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RAAF Fairey Battle L5760

On Sunday 22nd November 1942 at 1630 hours, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Fairey Battle (L5760) from No.

Author: RSL (Port Pirie Sub Branch) Inc.

Memorial Plaque
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RAAF Fairey Battle L5759

On Thursday the 13th August 1942, at 1500 hours, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Fairey Battle (L5759) from No.

Author: RSL (Port Pirie Sub Branch) Inc.

Commonwealth War Graves - Port Pirie Garden of Memory War Cemetery.
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RAAF Avro Anson MG217

On Sunday 31st December 1944 at 1050 hours, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Avro Anson (MG217) from No.

Author: RSL (Port Pirie Sub Branch) Inc.

Second Lieutenant Richard Earl Pingree, Service Number O-421661, USAAF.
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Second Lieutenant Richard Earl Pingree USAAF

Richard Earl Pingree was born in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States of America (USA) on the 9th June 1920 to Samuel Earl and Nina Laverne Pingree (nee Handley).

Author: RSL (Port Pirie Sub Branch) Inc.

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The Opening Ceremony

In the was of showing their appreciation of so many of the young men, who volunteered to fight in honour and liberty of their country, the residents Seymour may be taken as an e

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William John Jackson 1895 - 1917

William John Jackson was born in Allendale, Victoria in 1895 to Mary Jane (nee Heard) and Thomas Jackson, he enlisted on 24th February 1916 in Melbourne.  

Author: Gail Stapleton

Nameless homeless veteran
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The Story of the Nameless Homeless Veteran statue

The site of the Rockingham RSL Club, in Memorial Drive, Peron, has a Remembrance Wall and WW1 Roll of honour as well as other War Memorabilia, and on Vietnam Veterans Day this y

Author: City of Rockingham

Corporal Harold John Marris
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Corporal Marris was committed to the cause

The Kearsley Community Dawn Service Committee is a small community-based organisation committed to uncovering the identities of Lower Hunter service personnel and honouring thei

Author: Jordan Fallon

1319 Private William Polden, 16th Battalion, AIF, c.1914
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Private William Polden, 16th Battalion, AIF

William Polden was born on 18 May 1890 to George and Emma Polden of Mount Pleasant, South Australia. He attended Mount Pleasant Public School, and went on to work as a clerk.

Author: Australian War Memorial

Image: 'Battle of Fromelles', artist Charles Wheeler, 1922-25. Depicts a panoramic view of the Sugarloaf Salient area at Fromelles, with men of 5th Division AIF crossing No Man's Land towards the German trenches. Shell bursts and explosions can be seen above the landscape.
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Private Joseph Bottrall, 32nd Battalion, AIF

Joseph Bottrall was born on 5 February 1881, the fifth of nine children to Mary and Charles Bottrall, in Black Spring, north of Adelaide in South Australia.

Author: Australian War Memorial