Lakes Entrance RSL sub-branch will receive $11,819 from the Federal Government for two new cabinets to display its precious collection of World War One artefacts.<\/p>\n
The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester, who is also the Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, today announced the Lakes Entrance RSL would receive the funding under the Armistice Centenary Grants Program.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis money will help the Lakes RSL to build two floor-to-ceiling cabinets to hold some of its important relics from World War One,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n
\u201cVolunteers will research the artefacts to determine who they belonged to and where and when they were used. This information will be written on labels placed beside the items for visitors to read.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpace is currently limited to a small display case, so new cabinets will enable more of the RSL\u2019s collection of artefacts to be on show to help commemorate the end of the Great War.\u201d<\/p>\n
Memorabilia officer for the Lakes Entrance RSL Sub-Branch Peter Tunnage was thrilled by the news of the grant.<\/p>\n
\u201dThis will enable the Lakes Entrance RSL to develop displays of East Gippsland\u2019s war heritage that have not been possible before,\u201d Mr Tunnage said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to thank the Department of Veterans Affairs and Mr Chester for making this possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will unveil the displays on November 11. Anyone who wants to come along is welcome to attend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Chester said Gippsland had been allocated $50,000 to be shared among local organisations and community groups to help mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of the First World War.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese grants are designed to support local projects and activities which appropriately acknowledge this important date in Australia\u2019s history,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far, seven organisations in Gippsland have been approved to receive grants under this program, including Lakes Entrance RSL sub-branch and Ensay\/Swifts Creek RSL sub-branch, which will get more than $7000 for a First World War memorial at Reedy Flat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe response from the community to the Armistice Centenary Grants Program has been overwhelming and the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs is working to process applications as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lakes Entrance RSL sub-branch will receive $11,819 from the Federal Government for two new cabinets to display its precious collection of World War One artefacts. The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester, who is also the Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC, today announced the Lakes Entrance RSL would receive the funding under the Armistice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,125],"tags":[209,2084,175,2100],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}