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General Meeting – Sat 19th July
Tag Archives: WWI
Special Event
Letter to Portsea from Gallipoli
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
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At SORRENTO MUSEUM, 827 Melbourne Rd. Sorrento
Lest We Forget
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For details on how to support our local Sorrento Portsea RSL go to our page
“Lest We Forget 1914-18” HERE
Monthly Meeting Mar 6th 2020
Friday 7:00 pm at The Museum . . . Note earlier time –
Note that the meeting is at 7:00pm
Monthly Meeting Nov 3rd 2017
8:00 pm at The Museum
Speaker: Carol Rosenhain, a Melbourne writer and historian
Topic: “The Man Who Carried the Nation’s Grief” which describes the extraordinary work of James Lean MBE . . . See a review HERE
SPECIAL ANZAC DISPLAY
1915 – 2015 WE REMEMBER
Visit the NHS tribute to local Sorrento and Portsea WW 1 servicemen and women at the museum. See the new large panel funded by an ANZAC Centenary Grant and the special ‘dead man’s penny’ and its sad tale of a father and son who both served.
OPEN ANZAC DAY and Saturdays and Sundays 1.30 til 4.30pm
Nepean Historical Society 