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Anzac Day 2026 | Sister Elizabeth Kenny
 The theme of this year’s Anzac Day commemorations in Dimboola was honouring the nurses who played a significant role in tending to the wounded in all of the wars in which Australians have served. Anzac Day 2026 | C.W.G.C. graves in the Wimmera
 During World War One, the body of only one Australian killed in combat was returned home to be interred, with all others buried near where they fell in Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries across the battlefields of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Anzac Day 2025 | Arthur Joseph Weir
 Arthur Joseph Weir from Winiam, near Nhill, fell during the World War One Battle of Fromelles and for nearly a century, he did not have a known grave, but now he does. 1894 | The railway reaches Jeparit
 The coming of the railway was usually a grand occasion for any community, often marked with banquets, dignitaries, and parades, but for Jeparit, when this occurred 130 years ago on 19 June 1894, it was a little more low-key. 1920 | Jeparit War Memorial unveiled
 The Jeparit community gathered on Broadway on this day in 1920 to witness the unveiling of the district’s memorial to those who enlisted and fell during the Great War. Dimboola’s fallen Gallipoli heros
 Fifty-six of the names on the Dimboola town Honour Rolls represent those who volunteered for service overseas in World War One from the district who did not return. 1888 | Drain Lake Hindmarsh?
 Lake Hindmarsh is Victoria’s largest natural freshwater lake and is appreciated as a valuable natural asset for recreation and its natural beauty, but there have been some unusual proposals made over the years to put it to other uses. Remembrance Day | Survived the War but nearly not the return home
 Many Australians enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force during World War One, seeking excitement and adventure, and they found it in lots of different places. 30 years since the last Dimboola passenger train
 After one hundred and eleven years, the last regularly scheduled passenger train service out of Dimboola departed early in the morning of Saturday, 21 August 1993, thirty years ago this. Vietnam Veterans Day
 The Battle of Long Tan, in Phuong Tuy Province, South Vietnam, on 18th August 1966 has been adopted as Vietnam Veterans Day in honour of the 47,000 Australian troops who served during the ten-year war, of which 520 were killed in action or died of wounds, with 2,400 wounded.
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