History

Flashback to 1992 | Jeparit Community Pavilion destroyed by fire
Sunday 3rd February 2019

It was 27 years ago this weekend that the residents of Jeparit awoke to the news that the Community Pavilion at Sir Robert Menzies Park had been destroyed by fire, leaving the local and cricket, football and netball clubs and Agricultural and Pastoral Society without a home.

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Lieutenant Laurence T Binns - Military Medal and Bar
Saturday 10th November 2018

More than 295,000 Australians, including many from the Wimmera, served between March 1916 and November 1918 on the Western Front during World War One, and they are remembered in many different ways.

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Centenary of the Battle of Hamel
Wednesday 4th July 2018

Today, the fourth of July 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Hamel which was one of the most significant Australian actions of the First World War.

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Anzac Day 2018 | Local World War One military medical staff
Monday 23rd April 2018

Anzac Day this week gives a focus to remember and honour the sacrifices made by ordinary Australians in extraordinary circumstances on battlefields around the world over more than a century.

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1917 | Former Dimboola man wins V.C.
Tuesday 30th May 2017

One hundred years ago this month former local resident "Mick" Moon, was awarded the Victoria Cross, for his actions during fighting near Bullecourt in France.

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Killed-in-action less than a fortnight into WWI
Monday 8th May 2017

The year was 1915, our ANZAC troops had been on the Gallipoli peninsula for less than a fortnight, and there were already local servicemen losing their lives in battle.

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75 years ago: Dimboola’s Matron Paschke’s final days
Tuesday 14th February 2017

The year was 1942, Singapore was being evacuated due to the imminent threat of being invaded by the approaching Japanese, and Dimboola"s Matron Olive Dorothy Paschke found herself in the middle of it.

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