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Monday, July 13th, 2020 at 4:30am
Maurice Zamel, born in Warsaw, Poland, is 100 today. Maurice served in the @AustralianArmy & the @AusAirForce during WWII. He felt the discipline & mateship were the best things about serving. Happy Birthday Maurice & thank you for your service. #TYFYS #OurVeterans https://t.co/87mVeZ1TPu
Maurice Zamel, born in Warsaw, Poland, is 100 today. Maurice served in the @AustralianArmy & the @AusAirForce during WWII. He felt the discipline & mateship were the best things about serving. Happy Birthday Maurice & thank you for your service. #TYFYS #OurVeterans https://t.co/87mVeZ1TPu
Monday, July 13th, 2020 at 1:45am
Congratulations to Shane Phillips on being appointed as an @AusAirForce Indigenous Liaison Officer. Shane brings a vast knowledge of Indigenous culture & its many communities, & will be a great asset to #YourADF. Thank you for your service Shane. #TYFYS #OurPeople @CAF_Australia https://t.co/G6u5tc3Osj
Congratulations to Shane Phillips on being appointed as an @AusAirForce Indigenous Liaison Officer. Shane brings a vast knowledge of Indigenous culture & its many communities, & will be a great asset to #YourADF. Thank you for your service Shane. #TYFYS #OurPeople @CAF_Australia https://t.co/G6u5tc3Osj
Monday, July 13th, 2020 at 12:02am
Personnel from Woodside Barracks are helping with the coronavirus response on the SA-Vic border at Mount Gambier & Berri. #YourADF is continuing to help keep us safe right across the country. #OurPeople #TYFYS https://t.co/WBfnTBtjnj
Personnel from Woodside Barracks are helping with the coronavirus response on the SA-Vic border at Mount Gambier & Berri. #YourADF is continuing to help keep us safe right across the country. #OurPeople #TYFYS https://t.co/WBfnTBtjnj
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Born in Warsaw, Poland, Maurice Zamel is turning 100 today.
Maurice joined the Australian Army and served from June until December 1940 as a Sergeant with the 2nd Infantry Training Battalion. He then enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in September 1942 and was serving as a Sergeant at the RAAF’s1 Recruit Depot.
Maurice felt the discipline and mateship were the best things about serving.
After the war, Maurice worked in fashion.
He credits his long life to not smoking.
Happy birthday Maurice and thank you for your service. #TYFYS #OurVeterans
Maurice joined the Australian Army and served from June until December 1940 as a Sergeant with the 2nd Infantry Training Battalion. He then enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in September 1942 and was serving as a Sergeant at the RAAF’s1 Recruit Depot.
Maurice felt the discipline and mateship were the best things about serving.
After the war, Maurice worked in fashion.
He credits his long life to not smoking.
Happy birthday Maurice and thank you for your service. #TYFYS #OurVeterans
Sir Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop is known for his courageous medical work in prisoner of war camps during the Second World War.
His son, John Dunlop, recalls that his father did not consider himself more courageous than the next man. #OneInAMillion #75Days75Stories Australian Army
His son, John Dunlop, recalls that his father did not consider himself more courageous than the next man. #OneInAMillion #75Days75Stories Australian Army
On August 15 we will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2 but did you know how close the conflict came to Gippsland?
We often think the war happened thousands of miles away in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, deserts of Africa, or the fields of Europe but there were dozens of incidents along the east coast. The Darwin bombings and infamous midget submarines in Sydney Harbour are quite well known, and there were also efforts to disrupt supply lines off the coast of Gippsland with merchant ships torpedoed.
Remarkably, a German U- boat raider even came this far south and is believed to have been sunk off the New South Wales-Victorian border. These stories are all told at the bunker museum in Mallacoota which has been restored thanks to the tireless effort of volunteers.
If you get the chance to visit, the museum features artefacts of the era and explains how close the war came to Gippsland.
On August 15 we will have the chance to say an enormous ‘thank you for your service’ to more than 12,000 World War 2 veterans who are still with us today.
#lovegippsland
We often think the war happened thousands of miles away in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, deserts of Africa, or the fields of Europe but there were dozens of incidents along the east coast. The Darwin bombings and infamous midget submarines in Sydney Harbour are quite well known, and there were also efforts to disrupt supply lines off the coast of Gippsland with merchant ships torpedoed.
Remarkably, a German U- boat raider even came this far south and is believed to have been sunk off the New South Wales-Victorian border. These stories are all told at the bunker museum in Mallacoota which has been restored thanks to the tireless effort of volunteers.
If you get the chance to visit, the museum features artefacts of the era and explains how close the war came to Gippsland.
On August 15 we will have the chance to say an enormous ‘thank you for your service’ to more than 12,000 World War 2 veterans who are still with us today.
#lovegippsland
About Darren
Darren Chester was elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for Gippsland on June 26, 2008.
Darren Chester was sworn in as the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Minister for Defence Personnel and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC on 5 March 2018.
ABOUT GIPPSLAND
Gippsland is one of the most diverse regions in Australia and our community is dispersed across 33,000 square kilometres.