The Weekly Times of 22 Feb 1919 reported: "Ballarat Men Return - A few motor car owners in Ballarat have regularly met returning soldiers and conveyed them and their relatives to their homes. Most constant of all In this respect have been Messrs D. Ronaldson and J. H. Davey, and Mrs W. D. Thompson, president, and Miss , Bell, secretary, of the Welcome Home Com mittee. A body has been organised to "control the work, as parties of soldiers. are returning with greater frequency. The photograph was most likely taken upon the return of Harry Holmes of Ascot around 24 June 1919. The Ballarat Courier of 25 June 1919 reported: "ASCOT RETURN OF SOLDIERS. Four more returned soldiers from this district arrived home this week, and word motored out from Ballarat on arrival of the train on Mondayevening last. They were Lance-Corporal H. Holmes, Driver Frank Thomas, Driver S. G. Spittle, and Driver Leslie Walter, the last named hailing from Coghill’s Creek. They were all members of the A.A.S.C., and have been on active service since 1915, and up to the signing of the armistice, which occurred while they were in France. They took part in the big. operations at Villers-Bretonneux, and also at Mont St. Quentin, and spent the terrible winter of 1916 on the Somme. An informal welcome awaited them on their homeward journey in the cars, a large number of friends greeting them on the roadside, where a large bonfire had been lit in their honor. An official welcome will be tendered them later on.Four black and white photographs of Lydiard Street North, Ballarat, with lines with people awaiting a parade. The parade includes soldiers in uniform on horseback. world war one, returned soldiers, welcome home committee, harry holmes, gordon spittle, leslie walter, frank thomas, holmes family collection, chatham-holmes family collection

Map of Ballarat and surrounds, including Lake Learmonth, Snake Valley, Linton, Newton, Durham Lead, Sebastopol, Lake Wendouree, Winter Swamo. It was surveyed in 1933.ballarat, map

Soft cover school magazine showing alternative covers - "Wicked Witch" and "Good Witch" editions. Winter supplement attached "Looking back on Semester One".non-fiction

A magazine titled ' Heritage Australia.' Volume 5. Number 2. Winter 1986. Publication of Heritage Australia. ACNT 1986. Restoration of the Bendigo Post Office.australia, history, heritage places, heritage, australia, bendigo, bendigo history, restoration, bendigo post office, australian history, hotels, trade unions, gallipoli, war, place, magazine, magazines

SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH THREE LADIES AND ONE GENTLEMAN STANDING IN FRONT GARDEN, ALL WEARING WINTER ATTIRE. LADIES WEARING LARGE FLORAL SPRAYS AND HATS.local history, photography, photographs

This digital image shows the sun roof on the Melbourne District Nursing Society After-Care Hospital, 45 Victoria Parade, Collingwood. It shows some of the children nursed at the home. Many children were nursed there long term during the Poliomyelitis epidemic in the 1930s. It also shows uniforms worn by nurses and Sisters in the 1930s. The Melbourne District Nursing Society After-Care Home was originally established to provide nurse-managed convalescent care to poor and underprivileged patients who could not look after themselves at home due to illness, or on release from hospital. Opening in 1926 following a public appeal for funds, at a cost of £27,000, the Home included maternity, children’s and adult wards as well as accommodation for Matron, twelve Sisters and four domestic staff. Many children were nursed there, some long term, during the Polio epidemic and the Society employed two School Teachers. The Society now ran two divisions, the After-Care with its own Sisters and nurses and the District division. The Society were the first in Melbourne, in early 1928, to recognize some patients leaving the After-Care, and many at home, needed further social care and they set up ‘Almoners’ from their committee to visit these patients and be intermediaries in getting them social assistance. It was late the following year before the first training of Almoners took place in Melbourne. In 1930 the Society employed a full time kindergarten teacher to visit poor children in their homes. That year the Society were pioneers in opening an Ante-Natal Clinic at the After-Care, setting a high standard with equipment, keeping records and providing leaflets with instructions in how to keep healthy during pregnancy, what complications to look for and what to do when labour commenced. In 1934 the Society were pioneers again when they opened the first Women’s Welfare Clinic, including at the time a very controversial Family Planning Clinic, the first of its kind in Australia which was opened to support women at risk following multiple and difficult pregnancies, giving advice on birth-control. At first the clinic was attended by their own patients, but then accepting patients from public hospitals until their own clinics were opened. . Major extensions in 1934 led to the After-Care 'Home' having a name change to 'Hospital'. A trained Almoner was employed in 1934 but she resigned after twelve months due to the work load. Unable to procure another due to a shortage of trained Almoners, a Social Service Officer was employed at the After-Care who successfully gained better housing from the Housing Commission for families living under unsuitable conditions. Following Government intervention, the After-Care Hospital was separated from the Melbourne District Nursing Society in 1957. The After-care Hospital continued to operate at the same address until 1985 when it became the Melbourne Geriatric Centre. This digital Image shows two nurses and two Trained nurses (Sisters) supervising convalescing children in the roof garden of the Melbourne District Nursing Society After-Care Hospital . The two nurses are with the rear children, one on the left and one on the right. Both are wearing long white aprons over their long sleeved dark grey uniforms, and both are wearing white caps over their dark hair. On the right rear, in front of a row of glass windows, the upper portion of a Sister can be seen wearing a white uniform and white veil. In the right front is another Sister who is wearing glasses and is wearing a white uniform and dark coloured cape. She is wearing a white veil over her short dark hair. There are three boys and four girls resting on cane lounges; some are reading books and one girl is holding a doll. Another boy, who is wearing a dressing gown, is sitting on a cane chair. There is a trellis and a wall of windows on the left of the image and some brick work and a wall of windows on the right hand side behind the Sisters.. Some pots with low and tall plants can be seen.A tiled hip roof of a building can be seen in the rear of the image.mdns, melbourne district nursing society, after- care hospital, nurses uniforms

Army Khaki Dress Uniform Beltuniform, 1980, army

MAJOR THOMAS GLAZEBROOK, refer Cat No 4330.2.ARMY UNIFORM TROUSERS - KHAKI, POLYESTER, army uniform, trousers

Soldier in uniform sitting on table edge.world war one, photo black and white, john h evans, service number 1396

Black and white photo of a soldier in uniformworld war one, photo black and white, robert c a lawson, service number 231

The Ballarat phase of the battalion's history was formed as the Ballarat Volunteer Rifle Regiment on 9 August 1858 as a result of the Crimean War, coupled with the withdrawal of the British Army in 1857. In the years between its formation and the outbreak of War in 1914, the battalion went through a series of name changes as follows: 1854 – Earliest units of the RVR formed ( Melbourne Volunteer Rifle Regt. ) 1858 – Ballarat Volunteer Rifle Regiment (later Rangers) 1884 – 3rd Balarat Ballarat Infantry 1892 – 1st Battalion, 3rd Victorian Regiment 1898 – 3rd battalion, Victoria Infantry Brigade 1901 – 3rd Battalion Infantry Brigade 1908 – 1st Battalion 7th Australian Infantry Regiment 1912 – 70th Battalion (Ballarat Regiment) including Geelong 1912 – 71st Battalion (City of Ballarat Regiment) (From http://www.internationalhistoriansassociation.com/~internat/ihawiki/index.php?title=8th/7th_Battalion,_Royal_Victoria_Regiment)Frank Wright in the uniform of the 71st Infantryfrank wright, 71st infantry, 71st ergiment

WRAAC Uniform Buttons (16 small)badge/buttons, 1970, army

Woollen (stored with complete uniform U264)uniform, 1964, army

RAAF Blue (with complete uniform U453)uniform, c1970, raaf

Leading Airman uniform badge (brass)badge/buttons, ww2, raaf

Uniform Womans White dress with beltuniform, 1990, ran

Auscam (Part of complet uniform U815)uniform, 2000, army

Auscam (Part of complete uniform U815)uniform, 1994, army

Shirt Uniform RAAF stored with U907uniform, raaf

Reproduction, Collar white for Nurses Uniformuniform, ww1, army

Black belt suit uniform UU098uniform, army

Black tie (suit uniform UU098)uniform, army

Uniform Khaki Webbing belt narrowuniform, army

Reproduction Nurses grey uniform dressww1, army

Reproduction Nurses army uniform veiluniform, ww1, army

Nurses white uniform Veil repoductionuniform, ww1, army

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF MAN IN UNIFORM.photograph, person, male

Buttons and Badges worn on RAAF Uniformsa22.13, frecker

Portrait of Cpl Marcus Wakely b. 1890 from Yenda NSW part of the garrison at Hay Internment Camp. Sketched while Hofmann was in Camp Hospital, Hay, NSW. 1941.Photocopy of a sketch. Portrait of a soldier in uniform.Robert Hofmann March 41garrison, robert hofmann, wakley, hay