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Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - LONG GULLY HISTORY GROUP COLLECTION: UNVEILING OF PLAQUE
Copy of a letter to Garth Head from George A Ellis, dated 17 May 2000 re: Proposed program for the Unveiling of the Plaque at the Former Long Gully Fire Station on 20 August 2000. Signed George A Ellis.bendigo, history, long gully history group, the long gully history group - unveiling of plaque, cfa, state government of victoria, garth head, mr haermeyer, george a ellis -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Newspaper - OLD VIOLET SHAFT - THE VIOLET STREET 'VOLCANO' IS NOW EXTINCT
Newspaper article from the Bendigo Advertiser dated 13/5/67. Article mentions that the fire in the shaft is now out. A front-end loader had been used to push copious quantities of sand and mullock over it.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, old violet shaft, old violet shaft, the violet street 'volcano' is now extinct, bendigo advertiser 13/5/67, mines department, golden square fire brigade, mr frank vincent, violet street state school -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Poster - Poster, Information Board, The Battle of Coral - Balmoral
Describes the Coral - Balmoral Battle in detail. There is a coloured photo of M543 wrecker, "Tunza Gutz" in muddy ground. Also a b/w image of an artillery piece firing flechette & canister rounds at NVA/VC wave attacks.battle of coral-balmoral -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph - B&W image
A black and white photograph of Gunners of 104 Battery Royal Australian Artillery at Fire Base Betty attend the nightly situation report and orders. It was here that each detachment received its harrasment and indiction targets and timings for the nightphotograph, artillery, 104 battery raa, fire base betty, gunner, gibbons collection catalogue, gunner -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Gibbons, Denis, Christmas Decorations
A black and white photograph of Diggers at 1st Australian Task Force Base Headquarters hang Christmas decorations in their recreation hut. The NVA/VietCong had just announced that there would be a cease fire for the traditional Western Christmas periodphotograph, 1st australian task force, nva/vc, christmas, gibbons collection catalogue -
Clunes Museum
Document - NEWSPAPER - CUTTING, The Sun newspaper, 1944 BUSHFIRES, 10/01/1944
1944 BUSHFIRES.1 ARTICLE THE SUN, 9/01/1944. BUSHFIRES BURNT 15 HOMES, HOSPITAL AT CLUNES .2 ARTICLE THE SUN, 10/01/1944. BUSHFIRES AT CLUNES .3 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, PHOTOGRAPH OF CLUNES FIRE AFTERMATHbushfires, 1944 -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Newspaper clipping, Corowa Free Press, 12/07/2017
Newspaper clipping of the first and second pages of the Corowa Free Press of Wednesday, 12th July 2017, articles covering the fire at the Silver Key Café in Main Street Rutherglen, which took place on Sunday, 9th July.silver key cafe, fire -
Rutherglen Historical Society
Newspaper clipping, Corowa Free Press, 26/07/2017
Newspaper clipping of the first and second pages of the Corowa Free Press of Wednesday, 26th July 2017, articles covering the fire at the Silver Key Café in Main Street Rutherglen, which took place on Sunday, 9th July.silver key cafe, fire -
8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles Regimental Collection
Manual
M113 family of Armoured vehiclesentered service with Australian Army circa 1955.Technical manuals and User Handbooks were essential equipment for Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RAEME) tradesmen permanently attached to Armoured Corps regiments as Light Aid Detachments (LAD) or AFV Workshops and were responsible for repairs and maintenance of a nature beyond the expertise of AFV crewmen and just short of major rebuilds undertaken by Base Workshop detachments.Research and historical display value, Part of a collection of workshop manuals and user handbooks relating to equipment on issue to 8th/13th Victorian Mounted Rifles during the latter half of the twentieth century.Green vinyl covered manual 54 pages, bound with metal screws being technical Manual User Handbook Carrier Fire Support, Full Tracked M113A1 ( FS }. Published by Australian Army 17 December 1970Ink stamp on title page " 8/13 VMR Regimental Collection " -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - BENDIGO RAILWAY STATION PLATFORM NO 2 BUILDING
Colour image, laminated, shows brick building, arched windows, double doorway, pediment on top of entry. On back of photo : Platform Number 2, what the original platform number 1 was like before the fire of 1965.railways, bendigo to melbourne, platform number 2 -
Lilydale RSL Sub Branch
Poster - Anzac Day Poster 2012 #9, Anzac day 2012 - 70th Anniversary of Bombing of Darwin
Print of bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942 by Japanese aircraft. Shows several vessels loaded with ammunition, having been hit and set on fire in the harbour. Image from AWM collection AWM13495, issued by DVA 2012. -
Wodonga & District Historical Society Inc
Document - Haeusler Collection Workers' Compensation Insurance Policy, 1933
The Wodonga Historical Society Haeusler Collection provides invaluable insight into life in late nineteenth and early twentieth century north east Victoria. The collection comprises manuscripts, personal artefacts used by the Haeusler family on their farm in Wodonga, and a set of glass negatives which offer a unique visual snapshot of the domestic and social lives of the Haeusler family and local Wodonga community. The Haeusler family migrated from Prussia (Germany) to South Australia in the 1840s and 1850s, before purchasing 100 acres of Crown Land made available under the Victorian Lands Act 1862 (also known as ‘Duffy’s Land Act’) in 1866 in what is now Wodonga West. The Haeusler family were one of several German families to migrate from South Australia to Wodonga in the 1860s.Documentation for an Insurance Poicy taken out with the Guardian Assurance Company Ltd. which was originally established in 1821 as Guardian Fire & Life. In 1902 it was renamed the Guardian Assurance Company. The company established offices in most states of Australia.hauseler, haeusler collection, wodonga, insurance, guardian assurance -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1925c
Black and white photograph of fire damage to Venga Guest House. It shows the destroyed eastern wall of the guest house, charred timber framework and wall lining, woman inside window looking out. Lakes Entrance Victoria.guesthouses, disasters -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 2000
Date made December 2000Colour photograph showing destroyed Club Hotel. Photo taken from the Esplanade, front carparks covered with water and hoses as Lakes Entrance Fire Brigade damp down remaining trouble spots. Lakes Entrance Victoriahotels, fire brigade, disasters -
Clunes Museum
Booklet, DOMINION PRESS, THE MARYBOROUGH BUSHFIRE JANUARY 14, 1985, 17 MARCH 1985
BUSHFIRES, MARYBOROUGH REGION. JANUARY 1985.42 PAGES OF TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS - BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOUR. SOFT COVER. DETAILS OF THE FIRE, AREAS IT HIT, AFTERMATH, CLEANUP AND RECOVERY. BUSHFIRE MONDAY 14 JANUARY 1985. BOOK PRODUCED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR VICTIMS OF THE BUSHFIRE.bushfire, maryborough region -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph - Fire Brigade, Lakes Post Newspaper, 1991
Black and white photograph Tambo Group Fire Brigade Awards, Colin Watt Regional Officer, Ken Whadcoat, Alex Cooper and Colin Campbell awarede National Medal and Clasp for 30 years. Lakes Entrance Victoriafire brigade, volunteering -
National Vietnam Veterans Museum (NVVM)
Photograph, Gibbons, Denis, Regimental Aid Post
Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection. A black and white photograph of a Fire Support Base Regimental Aid Post - here the Diggers enjoy a cold soft drink (goffer) while they wait their turn for treatment, while a medic attends to a slight head wound on a Digger.photograph, fire support base, regimental aid post, goffer (soft drink), gibbons collection catalogue, denis gibbons, photographer, vietnam war, diggers, medic, digger -
Clunes Museum
Document - REPORT
A HAND WRITTEN EXTRACT FROM THE CLUNES GUARDIAN 18TH OCTOBER 1869 REPORTING A FIRE WHICH DESTROYED MANY SHOPS IN FRASER STREET, AND ALSO REPORTING A FLOOD THE FOLLOWING DAY WHICH DAMAGED HOMES AND BUSINESS PREMISES.local history, document, report, clunes history -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Photograph - Colour Print/s, The Met, mid 1980's
Large plasticised colour print of A class No. 233, when new, in Gisborne Street running a route 42, City with the MFESB Fire station No. 1 (Eastern Hill) in the background. Has Metropolitan Transit Logos on the side of the tram.trams, tramways, a class, gisborne st, city, fire station, tram 233 -
Wangaratta Urban Fire Brigade
photograph
D.Langshaw in turn out gear in front of a fire truck.black and white photographD.Langshawd. langshaw -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Bushfire Damage at the Apple tree orchard at Pomonal 1939
Apple tree orchard after 1939 Fires at PomonalBlack and white photo of what looks to be an orchard as fruit on the ground.stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Mr John Martin
Portrait. Thomas Kinsella. Stawell Fire Brigade 1893stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Mr. ??
Portrait. Thomas Kinsella. Stawell Fire Brigade 1893stawell -
Malmsbury Historical Society
Photograph (Item), Street Parade In Malmsbury, Malmsbury ca1990
People - Captain Koala Associated with - Junior Fire Brigade -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Hose and Reel Team at Ballarat
Stawell Fire Brigade Hose and Reel Team at Ballaratstawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Capt Grandin 1885 -- Studio Portrait
Portrait. Capt Grandin. Stawell Fire Brigade 1885stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Fireman A Clarke 1885 -- Studio Portrait
Portrait. Fm. A Clarke. Stawell Fire Brigade 1885stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Fireman Kelly 1885 -- Studio Portrait
Portrait. Fm. Kelly. Stawell Fire Brigade 1885stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Fireman Cox 1885 -- Studio Portrait
Portrait. Fm. Cox. Stawell Fire Brigade 1885stawell -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Stawell Fire Brigade's Fireman Akins 1885 -- Studio Portrait
Portrait. Fm. Akins. Stawell Fire Brigade 1885stawell