Remembrance Day 2018.
 

Hello all

Im just home from the Remembrance Day service and family day held at the Upwey / Belgrave RSL Sub branch. Approx 800 to 1000 people attended the service held at the sub branch from 11am. It was a lovely sunny day and the public stayed well into the afternoon and about 150 people visited the Running Rabbits Military Museum.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we did Remember "Them"

Lest We Forget.

Regards

Phil.

Wrong forum (confused by "General").

Lest we forget! To all those brave souls, we salute you.

100 years since the #Armistice 11/11/18.
308,000 men of the AIF served in war.
208,000 admissions to hospital for wounding.
750,000 admissions in total.
4 out of 5 were damaged or disabled in some way.
62,300 died, 550 by suicide.
8,000 died a premature death after the war.
Of those Australian soldiers who survived, more than half of them were discharged medically unfit.

As a proportion of its fighting force of men who were actually exposed to a theatre of war, Australia’s army suffered more deaths, more hospitalisations for wounding and more hospitalisations for illness and injury than the armies of Britain, Germany, France, Canada or the United States.

The greatest devastation of a generation in our history.

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Truly appalling numbers, in particular, I feel, the number of suicides, absolutely catastrophic.

Yes I was invited to do a display and small talk on the day at the Springdale Hall on behave of the Drysdale RSL , we had a lot of folk thru and it was a great success.

Rob