
Football club's unique record
Recruiting in Port Pirie.
Mr Leo de Dear, the Honourable Secretary of the Proprietary Football Club, writes:

A strong streak of honest determination
At the base of one side of the Bogan Gate War Memorial Clock Tower is a plaque reading “RAAF” with beneath that the simple inscription “P/O R.H. Middleton V.C”.
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A poem by Jim Chambers

Private Joseph Munday
Joseph Munday was born on the 26th January 1891 in Wandearah East, South Australia, one of eight children to William and Emma Munday (nee Fidge).

Corporal Clarence Davidson
Clarence Davidson was one of the first to join the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) from Port Pirie, South Australia, on the 19th August 1914, 3 weeks after war was declared

The Kookaburra Recruiting March 1916
When Australia became committed to provide troops for the First World War, recruiting committees across the country were formed to help boost recruitment numbers.

3D Virtual Tour
A small project that I took on of my own accord was to create a 3D Virtual Tour of the Ex-Prisoner of War Memorial in Ballarat.
Barcaldine War Memorial Monument
The War Memorial monument is in honour of the men and women from the Central Western District of Queensland who served their country as members of Australian defence forces.
The Guns Memorial
The Guns Memorial in Ash Street features a Turkish Gun, German Mortar and Japanese Gun. Each gun was presented to the Barcaldine Shire.

Private Rex Wilson 3 Royal Australian Regiment and 5th Cavalry, U.S. Forces
Private Rex Thomas Wilson of 16 Main Road, Solomontown, Port Pirie left home to fight in the Korean War in August 1950.
George Ingram VC MM
There are two memorials to George Ingram VC MM in Victoria, namely at:

Roland Jasper Ferry
Roland Jasper Ferry was born in 1876, one of 14 children born to John and Emma Ferry (nee de la Hant) of Sandalgrove, Port Pirie, South Australia.

From a small country village to the battlefields of France
Among the names on the War Memorial at Central Tilba, is that of Sister P Corkhill MM.
The evolution of the VVSGC Memorial
In the middle of 2006 it was envisaged that the club should build and dedicate a memorial to all those members of the Australian Defence Force who lost their lives in the servic
Walter Peeler VC
9 August 1887 – 23 May 1968
Walter Peeler was born and lived the earlier part of his life in Barkers Creek near Castlemaine.

Kyabram Memorial Walkway
The residents of Kyabram & district subscribed the sum of $20,000 pounds for the purpose of erecting a war memorial hospital.

Recruiting through women
11th August 1915
Bamawm Extension Memorial
A plaque was erected in 1982 by the Bamawm Extension Recreation Reserve Committee on behalf of residents in memory of Walter John Spiers.

French General Paul Pau
In the closing weeks of the Great War, Port Pirie was taken over by the enthusiastic welcome given to delegates of an economic mission to Australia, sent on behalf of the govern

A river far from home
Like most wars our nation has been involved in, the Second Anglo-Boer War, now more commonly known simply as the Boer War, was a long way from Australian shores.

Trooper John Christopher Fitzgerald
John Christopher Fitzgerald was born in Wallaroo, South Australia on the 7th of October 1864 and moved to Port Pirie when he was only 11 years of age.

Merchant Navy memorial plaque at Shrine of Memories, ANZAC Square
Surmounted by the Merchant Navy crest, the plaque reads:

No. 5 Central Recovery Depot
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No. 2 Operational Training Unit
During World War II, the RAAF established several operational training units (OTUs) to convert recently graduated pilots from advanced trainers to combat aircraft, and to a