This is a really well researched, & spoken by a Year 10 student, on Vietnam Veterans Day and reported in THE VIETNAM VETERAN PEACEKEEPER AND PEACEMAKERS JOURNAL Click here to read the full article

In military campaigns, specific engagements or events often come to symbolise and connect the public to the character of that war at large.  Breaker Morant in the Boer War, the Gallipoli landings in the Dardanelles through to the Somme on the Western Front in WWI.  The Kokoda track and Battle of Coral Sea in WWII […]

Ian Stenlake, the lead actor in the popular Sea Patrol TV series, has come out fighting in support of a fair system for military retirement pensions. Ian has said through the role he played, he had come to know some remarkable people who s erved in the Australian Defence Force, but was surprised to learn […]

NOTICES DATE DIGGERS LUNCH: LAST FRIDAY EACH MONTH – GAYTHORNE RSL POC: Ken Cullen (07) 3289 4052 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            (07) 3289 4052      end_of_the_skype_highlighting LOCSTAT HERE DAD’S ARMY JOIN US EACH MONDAY MORNING POEM: A FAIR GO AND NO MORE BETRAYAL – GEORGE MANSFORD The Defence Force Welfare Association and its Alliance* partners welcome the coming debate on fair […]

POEM: A FAIR GO AND NO MORE BETRAYAL – GEORGE MANSFORD The Defence Force Welfare Association and its Alliance* partners welcome the coming debate on fair indexation for military superannuants, expected to occur later this month in the Senate with the tabling of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment (Fair Indexation) Bill 2010. […]

The Chairman of the RAR Corporation MichaeL von Berg MC has offered his deepest sympathies to the family of Corporal Richard Edward Atkinson, who was killed in action during o perations in Afghanistan on Wednesday 2nd February 2011. Corporal Atkinson was serving with 1st Combat Engineer Regiment on operations with Mentoring Task Force 2 when he tragically […]

Major General B.W. (Hori) Howard, AO, MC, ESM (Retd) Colonel Commandant The Royal Australian Regiment Colonel Commandant The Royal Australian Regiment Corporation 15 Balfour Road AUSTINMER NSW 2515 25 January 2011 Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG The Special Air Service Regiment Campbell Barracks SWANBOURNE WA 6010 On behalf of the Royal Australian Regiment, and of […]