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About Nepean Historical Society

The Nepean Historical Society promotes in the general community, a knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, the historical, cultural and environmental heritage of the Nepean Ward of the Mornington Peninsula Shire and the western end of the Nepean Peninsula.

Letter to Portsea from Gallipoli

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Wednesday 24 April 5:30 – 7:00pm

In association with the Sorrento Writers Festival

Letter from Alfred Keys, who was born at the Quarantine Station, to his father, May 1915 giving a first hand account of his landing at ANZAC Cove with the 5th Battalion AIF. Read by noted author Michael Veitch with narration by Sorrento Museum’s Clive Smith.

” . . . my account is a better one always than Captain Bean ever writes, so I’ll make the best of a bad job and set right in. . .” Alfred ‘Tom’ Keys 28.5.1915

Book at Trybooking – HERE

At SORRENTO MUSEUM, 827 Melbourne Rd. Sorrento