The first Seafarers Service was held on 23 October 1905 in the St Paul's Cathedral in London to celebrate the Centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson on 21 October 1805. Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith launched the first Seafarers Service two years later and the first service was held on Sunday 10 November 1907. National and house flags are used during the annual Seafarers Service. The service continue to reflect the full range of the maritime activities in Australia. Representatives come from the Royal and Merchant Navies, the commercial world, shipping companies, mission and philanthropic societies, veterans’ associations, labour unions, youth and leisure organisations, but anyone is welcome to attend.Large white rectangular flag with the Australian Blue Ensign and the letters HMC.flag, seafarers service, australian border force, h.m.c., customs

Mrs. Jessep, wife of Alexander William Jessep, Principal 1926 -1941.124 Sepia and b/w photographs pasted onto pages in photograph album. Photographs labelled up to 91. String holding pages together has become detached.{Photographs labelledmrs. jessep, alexander william jessep, principal, a.w. jessep, students, staff, garden views, russ, stewie, seniors, juniors, c. broadhurst, yarra river, bill richmond, long border, orchard border, pavilion, s cohn, b jackson, miss pater, principal's residence, banksia rose, joan hornabrook, mollie shannon, luffmann ponds, lily ponds, jacaranda, sequoia sempervirens, entrance, pinus, g crivelli, c baker, v sanderson, n white, rose bed, elm, old nursery, nancy dewey, andy, barney, frank, vic, student group 1925-1928, g hudson, cows, friesan cows, recreation, h kirkhope, orchard, tuppence, student group 1927, australian border, students working outside, crack willow, espalier pears, oak lawn, potting shed, m rawlins, whitting, miss courtney, miss horton, e murray, h carnegie, j mackie, g campbell, m suiter, pruning, bees, outside classes, delphiniums, christmas party, lawnmower

Taken while surveying western half of Victoria to South Australian Border.Theodolite in foreground. Behind Surveyor in hat, shirt, long pants. Directly behind is Survey technician in hat, Tee shirt and shorts. Surveyor unknown. Assistant Alan Edward Tangey of Stawell. Reverse 4 2 2 6

Karl Streker cut out the map of Australia using a razor blade with Private Tony Connor and Private Alf Gillespie on garrison duty.Cut out plywood subjects - two of our Garrison guards with guns, standing on cut out map of Australia. Borders and capital cities are marked. Guard tower and barracks are in the background. State borders and capital cities are marked on map.internee hand craft, karl streker, private tony connor, private alf gillespie

This is a book of 188 pages. The cover has colour photographs and printing in red and white. The pages contain printed text, maps and illustrations, and black and white and colour photographsnon-fictionDescription of Western Victorian Coast from Point Lonsdale to South Australian Borderwestern victoria coastline, graham patterson, warrnambool, shipwreck coast

This stencil was used as a wool classification stamp for the transportation of wool bales.Wool bale export stencil with an Australian symbol bordering the number 34 with wool underneath. 34 WOOLexport, wool sales export - wool wool - transportation

Tour to outback regions of Australia - Innamincka and Cameron Corner. This is where the Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia borders meet. Photos show the floods, dryness of the land and the regeneration of plant life. Elizabeth Chatham is with family memberschatham-holmes collection, elizabeth chatham, outback, cameron corner, innamincka, queensland, new south wales, south australia, floods, desert plants

Part of the Cooper Collection. See Catalogue No. 9586.2 for details of "Keith Cooper's" service.1. & 2. Circular shaped cloth badge with black edging. Centre features a map of Vietnam in black over embroidered medal ribbons. Red Kangaroo over yellow shield. All on white background. Red border bearing black lettering.On red border, “Australian Vietnam Forces 1962-1973”cooper collection, keith cooper, vietnam war, cloth badges

A small soft cover book with a blue/green cover,on the front cover is a painting of early Australia with Indigenous Australians hunting with spears alongside them is a European with long unkept hair and a beard dressed in animal skins,on the back cover is text by the author giving a brief outline of the book.buckley, sorrento, robinson crusoe, port phillip, van diemen's land, colonialism, 1840, convicts, indigenous tribes.

Rev Alan Body ministered at Wentworth (the Victorian parish in New South Wales) for 10 years, and was subsequently transferred to Boort. During his time at Wentworth he conducted a patrol ministry, travelling between 8000 and 10,000 kilometres per year visiting the area from Wentworth to Pooncarie, to Coombah on the Broken Hill road, out west to the South Australian border, south to the Murray and upstream to Wentworth.B & W waist length photograph of Rev. Alan Body with his Wentworth Shire Australia Day Citizen Award."Alan Body page 31 C&N 24/2/1988"rev alan body

Two Badges. One round Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia; black border, gold center with Map and Australian Flag. Crown on top. I've been there VIETNAM with Medal in center. Gold coloured rectangle.badges, vietnam veterans' association of australia

Original AMF Certificate of Discharge certifying VX 142238 Private John Brian Murray born 27/10/1922 at Moyhu 57/60 Australian Infantry Battalion served with CMF 28/5/42 to 29/6/43 and AIF from 30/6/1943 to 8/8/1946 which included overseas service in New Guinea and Solomon Islands.Certificate recognises Private Murray's service in the CMF and AIF during WW2Cream coloured paper with black border with Australian Coat of Arms centre top of page. Certificate of Discharge - No 554111jb murray, 57/60 aust infantry battalion, certificate of discharge, ww2

According to the front page this autograph book belonged to Patricia Spencer of Spencer Street, Dartmoor. Dartmoor is a small settlement on the Princes Highway between Heywood and the South Australian border. It was first settled in the late 1850s and the main industry is the processing of timber from the surrounding pine plantations. Patricia Spencer attended Warrnambool High School in the late1930s and this album contains a number of entries from Warrnambool High School in 1938. It also has a page of eleven signatures of the Head Master, George Langley and other teachers from Warrnambool High School. There are also entries from people from Mortlake and Panmure and other entries with the person’s address not indicated. Autograph books such as this one were commonly owned by young people in the 19th and 20th centuries (up to about 1950) and were very popular with young girls.This album, although incomplete and tattered, is of interest because it is a good example of the social custom, more popular a couple of generations back than it is today, of young people owning and obtaining signatures and verses from their friends and acquaintances. It is also important because it contains signatures of Warrnambool High School teachers in 1938 and there are other entries of interest. This is a small autograph album that was originally bound with a cardboard cover with red leather backing but now has no front cover and only part of the back cover. The pages are all loose and the front section (buff-coloured) has a cardboard piece with felt padding. The pages are coloured in a variety of pastel tones and there are many handwritten entries of verses and signatures, with several from the ‘B’ Form, 1938, of ‘W.H.S. (Warrnambool High School). The album appears to have belonged to Patricia Spencer from Dartmoor. Some of the pages are torn and stained. At the back there are remnants of a sketch of an Asian scene and a letter to ‘Pat’ for her birthday. ‘Autographs’ ‘Patricia Spencer, Spencer Street, Dartmoor’ autograph albums, patricia spencer, warrnambool

Photographs from Colin G. ODLUM VX 45898 from HQ COY 2/23 Batt. Posted to Palestine December 1941. Refer Cat no 127.56 for service details Box 7 Two original black and white photographs with white borders of Australian Soldiers Club Jerusalem and Haifa Port demo a height. Both photos. on the back “From VX 45898, ODLUM C. G., HQ COY, 2/23 BATT, AIF, Abroad, 20/12/41 .2) Written on the front “ AUSTRALIAN CLUB JERUSALEM “ palestine, ww2, soldiers club, haifa

Apsley is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is on the Wimmera Highway, in the Shire of West Wimmera, 420 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, and 7 kilometres east of the South Australian border. Apsley Police Station opened on 29th November 1884 and was originally located in Wallace Street. It was staffed by one Foot Constable (motor cycle). The building was described, in 1930, as a four-roomed dwelling with an iron roof, set on a quarter of an acre of land. There was a bathroom, a WC, wash-house and a garage. An office adjoined the house and there was also a lockup. The station moved several times until the mid 1960s when a timber residence was moved onto land adjacent to the Post Office. The building is believed to have been transported from the Stawell area. Apsley is one of a handful of one-man police stations in Victoria and its current location, including residence, is at 19 Splatt Street. Apsley was in the Western District when it opened, then in "L" (Wimmera) District from January 1948 and "M" (Highlands/Wimmera) District from March 1990. 4 black & white photos, 1965 3 colour photos, 1987police stations; apsley police station

George Padgett was born into a railway family in Numurkah, Victoria on 3 February 1890. He began working for the Victorian Railways as a junior clerk in Maryborough and gained his Driver’s ticket in 1914 at North Melbourne. He was based at Ararat for some time, then transferred to Dimboola in 1926. In 1927 George drove the pilot train ahead of the Royal Train between Ballarat and the South Australian border. In November 1937 when the “Spirit of Progress” made its first run from Melbourne to Albury, George was moved to Wodonga. From the train's first return trip he took over the driving. During his career, he made an average of 92 round trips a year and this article reports that he made his 1,100th round trip in 1948. By the time of George’s retirement he had travelled over 500,000 miles at the wheel of the “Spirit”. George made his last trip on the “Spirit of Progress” on 4 February 1955 prior to his retirement. He died in Wodonga on 19 February 1967. These articles are significant because they give an account of the long-serving career of a locomotive driver who lived in Wodonga.Two newspaper articles written about George Padgett, long term driver of the Spirit of Progress Article 1 - "Spirit" Driver Plays trains too" was published in The Sun News-Pictorial Sat 28 Aug 1948 on Page 8 Article 2 - "THE ENGINE-DRIVER: MR PADGETT'S engine" was published in the Melbourne Herald Saturday 24 July 1948 on page 7george padgett, "spirit of progress"

Programme prepared by the Citizens of Bendigo to welcome home returned WW1 soldiers. Part of the O'Donahoo Collection. See cat No. 10928.2 for details of service for Robert Raymond O'Donahoo (No. 1399).A5 sized single page pamphlet with printing on one side. Text in blue type with border. Australian Red Ensign and Union Jack at top of page. Double line border in “Art Nouveau” style.o'donahoo collection, robert raymond o'donahoo, welcome home programme, ww1, bendigo

The Kangaroo Hoppet is Australia’s premier long distance cross country ski race, and a member of the Worldloppet series of international cross country ski events. The first race at Falls Creek was held in 1979 under the name of “Australian Birkebeiner”. It was a 21km race with about 80 participants organised by the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club of Mount Beauty. The course started and finished at Falls Creek Alpine Resort and took participants out into the Bogong High Plains. After running the event for 10 years, it was decided they should become part of the Worldloppet series of marathon ski races. Representatives from the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club and the Australian Ski Federation attended the Worldloppet Annual Meeting in Finland in June 1990 to put the case for the acceptance of an Australian event into the Worldloppet series. Before being admitted, they had to demonstrate that the Birkebeiner Club could run a world class event, so three months later in August 1990 a 42km event named the Australian International Ski Marathon was held at Falls Creek together with a 21km Birkebeiner race and a 7km event called the Birkebeiner Lite. The event was approved by delegates from USA, Norway and Austria, in 1991 Australia became the 12th member of Worldloppet, with the condition that there had to be a name change. After some late night discussion allegedly involving red wine from North East Victoria the main event became the 42km Kangaroo Hoppet, with the minor events being the 21km Australian Birkebeiner, and 7km Joey Hoppet. In the winter of 1991, the first Kangaroo Hoppet was held. It was a great success and has been a regular fixture on the international ski calendar ever since. It features the main 42km event as well as a 21km event and a 7km event. The Hoppet brings the Australian snowfields to an international audience. In 1995 the Men's Winner was Andre Jungen from Switzerland in a time of 2:22:57. The winner of the Women's event was Maria Theurl of Austria in a time of 2:56:08.This poster is significant because it documents an event which brings international attention to Falls Creek and the surrounding region.A large coloured poster a main image of skiers ascending a slope. A smaller inset image features a large group of skiers. A title is written at the bottom of the image in graduated orange letters. The logos of Worldloppet, Southern Hydro, Holden, QANTAS and the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club are across the bottom.Beneath image: AUSTRALIA'S WORLDLOPPET SKI RACE/ 26TH AUGUST 1995, FALLS CREEK, VIC . 42 KM .21KM. 7KM. Phone: (057) 54 3103 Fax: (057) 54 4475 P.O. Box 400 Mt. Beauty 3699 Australia In Border around photos: Photographs: Glen Tempest - Open Spaces Photographykangaroo hoppet, worldloppet events, falls creek, mt. beauty

Certificate of Appreciation from the Shire of Oxley to B Murray who served during WW2 - Dated 11/12/1945 John Brian Murray was born on 27/10/1942 at Moyhu. He enlisted in the Army on 30/6/1943. Private VX142238Brown laminate frame containing certificate bordered by Australian State crests with photograph of King George two flags and crown at top and red seal below.The Call to Arms B Murrayshire of oxley, ww2, certificate of appreciation, john brian murray

Certificate of Appreciation from the Shire of Oxley to D Murray who served during WW2 - Dated 11/12/1945 James Desmond Murray was born on 2/3/25 at Moyhu and enlisted in the RAAF on 28/5/1943 - Leading Aircraftman 142205Brown laminate frame containing certificate bordered by Australian State crests with photograph of King George two flags and crown at top and red seal below.The Call to Arms Shire of Oxley D. Murray World War 1939-45d. murray, shire of oxley, ww2

Coloured sticker with an illustration of an aircraft flying over an Australian rural scene. Around the border: Australian Aerial Services Limited - Larkin Aircraft Supply Co Ltd' . Section (blank) for addresses (to and from). No obvious connection with Watson era.person, individual, basil watson

Pamphlet issued to military personnel in 1920 to "impress upon the young Australian soldier the principle that prevention is better than cure" (from introduction). Each soldier had a copy and it had to be presented when required by the commanding officers, often during kit inspections. The pamphlet provided basic information on keeping clean and hygienic, looking after boots and socks, smoking, self-control, food and fresh air.Small staple bound booklet with thin card cover. Publication details and tile printed in black ink inside a thin black border, the Australian emblem is at the top.'VICTORIAN BRANCH / LIBRARY / ANZAC HOUSE' [stamped in red ink on title page]australian miltary forces, military handbooks, military life, soldiers-conduct of life, soldiers, 1920, soldiers - health

Discoloured cream cotton flag with red border, red Australian Military Forces insignia at top and "Welcome Home 2nd AIF" in red underneath - attached to piece of dowel.ww2, flag

This book is a 2015 transcription of a 1995 book by Helen Tolcher. It contains the story of the establishment in the 1870s of the Nappa Merrie station on the South Australian- Queensland border on the Coopers Creek. The station was established by John Conrick after he and three other men set off with 1600 cattle in 1872 from Koroit in Victoria, arriving at the new property site eleven months later. John Conrick (1852-1926) was the son of Patrick and Ellen Conrick who were farmers in the Tower Hill area. John Conrick had four sons who continued to run Nappa Merrie until family connections to the property ceased in 1960. This book is of interest as a record of the legend-making overland cattle droving feat by Koroit resident, John Conrick and three others in the early 1870s and of the establishment of an important property in Queensland following the overland trip. This is a soft cover book of 132 pages. The cover is multi-coloured with photographs of John Conrick and the Dig Tree site at Coopers Creek. The pages contain a preface, 19 chapters of text and an index. There are several maps and many black and white and colour photographs. conrick family of koroit, nappa merrie property, queensland, warrnambool

The Rising Sun patch is worn on the left shoulder as part of the military uniform by Australian Army. Oval shaped dark brown patch. Around the outside of the patch is a machine embroidered khaki cotton border. The Australian Army Rising Sun has been machine embroidered centrally on the patch in black cotton thread.THE AUSTRALIAN ARMYrising sun, royal australian army, patch