Joint meeting with the Nepean Conservation Group.

Note VENUE : At 8:00 pm at the Sorrento Portsea Senior Citizens Centre

(corner of Melbourne Road and Queens Road – next door to the Sorrento Museum)

Speaker: Richard Cotter

Topic: ‘James Tuckey: First Lieutenant on the Calcutta’

Copies of Richard Cotter’s book on Tuckey will be available for sale.

Join us for dinner at Buckley’s Chance at 6.15pm prior to the meetings.
Book on 5984 2888 and ask to join the NHS table.

(Dale Kelly, the Shire Heritage Planner, will now talk at the November meeting).

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But instead see the Postcards Traveling Exhibition article above.

8:00 pm at The Sorrento Museum

Speaker: Associate Professor Ursula De Jong,
School of Architecture and Built Environment. Deakin University
& Director of Australian Research Council ‘Seachange’ project.

Topic: ‘Sorrento heritage: – streetscape transformation and
transgressions: a study of main street changes in the historic
town of Sorrento’

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8:00 pm at The Sorrento Museum

Speaker: Jan Humphrey, President, Southern Peninsula Family History Society

Topic: ‘Researching Southern Peninsula families’

8:00 pm at The Sorrento Museum

Speaker: Judy Walsh, President, National Trust, Mornington Peninsula Branch

Topic: ‘The National Trust on the Mornington Peninsula’

Speaker: Wayne Bastow

Topic: ‘Private Ernie Myers of Rye: killed in France in WW I.’

Ernie Myers

Source: Australian War Memorial Collection

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2490 Private (Pte) Ernest Samuel Gordon Myers, 5th Reinforcements, 22nd Battalion, of Rye via Dromana, Vic, aged 24. Pte Myers enlisted on 13 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Osterley on 29 September 1915. He died of wounds on 16 November 1916 at Pozieres, France.

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Annual General Meeting 8pm at the Sorrento Museum

After which:

Speaker: Penny Carnaby, (National Trust, Mornington Peninsula)

Topic: ‘Historic Sites across Nth Africa and the Sahara’