The contents of this folder are all related to the SMIMM (Soldiers Memorial Institute Military Museum) now Bendigo Military Museum. After the successful Revitalization - Restoration of the SMIMM in Nov 2018 the interim Museum Subcommittee was disolved. In 2019 the process of forming a new Sub Committee began. The first meeting was held on 1.7.2019. 2019 had been a very successful year and 2020 was hopefully better. In early 2020 Covid struck and the last meeting was held on 17.3.2020 and the Museum closed not long after. The contents of this folder cover Agenda's, Minutes, Reports, Donations in $ terms, Terms of referance re Museum, Correspondance from BDRSL, Museum Business plan for 2020, details re Museum functions and certificates. There was no meetings until 3.3.2021 and due to Covid would only be open on a Saturday for for the time being pending Covid and finance. The first day open was Saturday 27.3.2021. Folder Blue 4 ring binder with plastic inserts, the cover has a brief of the contents, 51 inserts with some having multiple pages in each.brsl, smirsl, smimm,

There are 6 main pages, 5 have individual names and groups listed, total 59 who donated a $ figure under 1,000.00 to the Revitalization/Restoration of the SMIMM, Soldiers Memorial Institute Military Museum during the fund raising period from late 2016 to Nov 2018.Folder, clear plastic cover with plastic inserts, there are 6 pages of details.brsl, smirsl, smimm, donations

.2) Service Record of Sgt James Clarence WATT compiled by a SMIMM volunteer. .1) Certificate of Identification - Record of Service of Sgt James C WATT No 533, 24th Battalion. Dated 14.10.1920. .2) Service history of the above soldier.Document “No 5743”documents, identification, service, history

The flag was donated by a visitor to SMIMM from Texas USA and when she returned home sent the Museum a flagFlag, cloth, top L H corner has the white stars of the combined states of America, main section has red and white bars across, the spine has a brass eyelet top and bottomflags, usa,

This flag was donated to SMIMM to HONOR the service and assistance that the Salvation Army has rendered the Australian Forces over many decades.Salvation Army flag, rectangular shape, colours are outer rim blue all around, centre magenta, middle an 8 pointed gold star with Magenta wording, a white cord and loop at one endCentral, “BLOOD & FIRE”flags, salvation army

The flag was donated to SMIMM by the historian of the YMCA in gratitude of the service the YMCA has given to Aust Military Forces since federation especially on overseas service.Flag, polyester, white background, centre has a red triangle point down, over this is a rectangular blue section with the letters “YMCA” in white, spine has a short nylon cord at each end.flags, ymca

Albert VIctor Grinton (born Tragowel Vic, enlisted Melbourne) No 5024 enlisted in the 21st reinforcements 13th Batt AIF on 21.1.16 age 18 years. When he got to England he transferred to the 38th Batt to be with his brother Jack. Embarked for France 22,11,1916, WIA 28.5.1917 SW Face, rejoin unit 19.6.1917, WIA 12.10.1917, rejoin unit 10.5.1918, promoted CPL 3.9.1918, hospital 14.9.1918 Nasal Obstruction, rejoin unit 3.10.1918, promoted Sgt 7.10.1918. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for actions near Clery on 31.8.18. John William Grinton enlisted in C Coy 38th Batt AIF on 3.2.16 age 23 years. Both became Sergeants and both were WIA twice. They came home together on the same boat. Part of the Grinton collection which included hundreds of negatives and developed photos taken by Jack during the War. Refer 1280 for Jacks full service records also 1317P, 1319.3.A4 size B & W copy of the original photo. The frame is black. On the left is Albert Grinton "DCM" and on the right Jack Grinton. The original was taken in England in 1916.photographs, military, ww1

David James Wallace HAMILTON. Prior to WW1 he had 6 years service in the RAN until his time expired. (Born Melbourne, enlisted Melbourne) in the AIF No 329 in the 14th Batt Machine Gun section on 10.9.1914 age 24 years 11 months. Promoted to Cpl 4.12.1914, embarked for Egypt 22.12.1914, embark for Gallipoli 12.4.1915, WIA 19.5.1915 SW Left Thigh, WIA 2nd occasion 20.8.1915 GSW to Back, embark for France 7.6.1916, promoted to Sgt 22.8.1916, transfer to 12th MG Coy 23.8.1916, promoted to W.O 20.10.1916, promoted to 2nd Lieut 24.3.1917, KIA Belgium 7.6.1917. Items relating him, Photo, Commemorative plaque etc have been framed & are in the SMIMM collection. Refer 2354.4P re his brothers service..1) Photo, black & white, portrait of a soldier on white ornate cardboard backing, re DJW HAMILTON. .2) Photo postcard, black & white, portrait of sailor re DJW HAMILTON, full page letter on the reverse in ink. .3) Photo postcard, sepia, sailor standing by a column. .4) Photo postcard, sepia, group of 9 sailors. .5) Photo postcard, black & white, 2 sailors on ships deck..1) April 1908 D HAMILTON. .2) Yours truly DAVID 17.5.08. .3) Your Aff son Dave, Portsmouth, England 18.12.1912. .5) H Brew HMAS Protector 12.11.17.photography-photographs, ran

These 25 pages of documents all revolve around the Grinton Nitrate negatives and the journey to the Bendigo RSL Military Museum (SMIMM - BMM) from 2005 - 2009. The main people involved in this were Peter Ball, Murray Poustie Bendigo RSL Museum, Aylene Kirkwood Eaglehawk Heritage Society, Corrine Perkin Bendigo Art Galley, Jean Grinton Jack Grintons Daughter and Dorothy Hammer Bert Grinton 's (DCM) Daughter. The main points were; the possibility of the negatives going to the Australian War Memorial, the donation of to the Museum, meetings re ownership and the use off, the first exhibition and the plans and agreement for a major exhibition being "A Camera on the Somme". By putting "Grinton" in search 154 Catalogue numbers will come up regarding the exhibition and other.This correspondence contains the following. .1) Letter one page to the Archivist Canberra War Memorial dated 2.8.2005. .2) Donation form double sided dated 23.4.2007 re negatives to the Bendigo RSL Museum. .3) Minutes 3 pages of meeting held on 8.5.2008 at 10.30 at the BRSL Memorial Hall with a final signing on 20.5.2008 by 3 signatories. .4) Minutes of Museum Sub Committee 4 pages held on 9.5.2008 at 10.0am. .5) Letter one page dated 14.5.2008 to the Australian War Memorial head of Photographs, Film and Sound. .6) Letter one page dated 20.5.2008 signed by 3 Signatories. .7) Document, one page dated 20.5.2009 items on loan to Bendigo Art gallery signed by 3 signatories. .8) Document double side dated 25.6.2009 inward loan agreement to Bendigo Art gallery. .9) Document 2 pages re a Draft for an Exhibition covering 10 points. .10) Document 4 pages dated 25.6.2009 re outgoing receipt to Bendigo Art Gallery signed by 3 signatories. .11) Documents 3 pages dated 20.8.2008 to 25.6.2009 inward loan agreement and outgoing receipt to Bendigo Art Gallery. .12) Two page spread A3 listing 83 items on loan for an exhibition. .13) Copies of above and miscellaneous documents 12 pages.brsl, smirsl, grinton

Four sets of cover introduction and place mats. This 90th Anniversary dinner of the RSL was held on the 12th August 2006 at 7.00pm at the Bendigo District RSL Sub Branch Inc Havilah Road. The date the Returned Servicemen’s League officially began is generally accepted as being 6.6.1916. On the night the Bendigo RSL Museum (SMIMM) set up a cabinet and mannequin with items of memorabilia relating to Sir Gilbert Dyett. The program: MC - Mr Murray Poustie Commemorative Sub Committee Chairman. Silent Tribute - Mr Cliff Richards President. Loyal Toast - Mr Cliff Richards. Toast to the RSL - Mr Peter Ball Snr Vice President. Response - Mr Rob Webster Snr Vice President Victorian RSL. Guest Speaker - Mr Ian Dyett. Reply - Mr Bob Sully Department of Veterans Affairs. Closing remarks - Cr David Jones Mayor City of Greaterr Bendigo.4 Place Mats all different in colour and B&W, 4 Page introduction. .1) Front cover of the 4 page introduction, pages 2 & 3 has menu and toasts, rear has the pamphlet re the opening of the SMI 1921. .2) RSL badge central with details. .3) Has images of the 5 RSL badges 1919 to current with written text. .4) Photo B & W of Sir Gilbert Dyett 1st Federal Vice President of the National RSL 1916 then National President in 1919 plus a brief history. .5) Gives a brief history of the formation in 1916. brsl, smirsl, 90th, birthday

.1) Hard Drive, the following items are stored on this device. 1. BRSL/SMIMM/BMM Museum History photographs, 885 images as a slide show with text added 1998 - 2018. 2. BRSL/SMIMM/BMM Museum History photographs, 241 images as a slide show with text added 2019 - current (ongoing). 3. Video, 7.30 report 23 April 2009 re the discovery of the Somme photographs, the Grinton collection. 4. 38th Bn AIF brief history 9 pages follows the movements of the Battalion by page No & date from "Eric Fairey's History of the 38th Bn", from inception on 1.3 1916 to when the 1st Draft leaves for home on 17.2.1919. (Hard copy, Cat No 9717) 5. The Anzac day Rum & Coffee story Bendigo RSL Dawn Service from 1996 to 2024. Follows the changes that began with the Museum expanding, 4 pages with photos, 33 other images as well taken over time. 6. BRSL/SMIMM/BMM Brief History in two folder sections 1993 to current (Ongoing) a. Text with images attached. b. Photographs, scans, drawings, sketch's, newsletters used in the publication. (Hard copy, Cat No 8274.2) 7. Photographs. (a) Photographs B & W, 403 as a slide show with text added. Covers 9 collections re WW2. (b) Photographs B & W, 473 as a slide show with text added. Covers 3 collections re WW2 & 1 by Korea. (c) Photographs B & W, 887 as a slide show with text added, covers 1 collection "Grinton". (d) Photographs B & W, 196 as a slide show with text added, covers 8 collections re WW1. (e) Photographs B & W, 443 as a slide show with text added, covers 8 collections re WW2. (g) Photographs colour, 648 as a slide show with text added, covers 1 collection re Vietnam. (h) Photographs colour, 831 as a slide show with text added, covers 2 collections combing (g & h) re Vietnam. 8.Museum Muster stories. Contains 18 stories relating to the Museum collection and the RSL history in the building. Many of these stories were published in the Museum Muster Newsletters. Others were ready to use but in 2020 Covid struck and the Newsletter came to an end and there were no more Newsletters after that. 9. Diary. Transcribed from the original. Arthur George Holley No PM13556 RAN. Joined the RAN age 15 in 1922 and goes through to 1945. 10. Diary. Transcribed from the original. Colin (Snowy) Odlum VX45898 2/23rd Bn 2nd AIF. Begins when he sailed from Melbourne on Nov 16th 1940 to July 10th 1942, he was KIA at El Alamein on 12.7.1942. (These are the only two left in digital form, others that were done on a Museum Computer or transferred to were lost on the Museum computers) 11. Museum Musters. There were a total of 84 "Musters" produced from 2003 to beginning 2020 just before Covid. Vol's No 39, 45 - 76 are the only remaining in digital format. The rest were lost on Computer. (Vol's 1 - 84 are in Hard Copy) 12. Born Bendigo, enlisted Bendigo WW1. A listing of approx 6,000 names. This information was supplied by Denis Connor, Paul Dalgleish and Staff of the National Archives Canberra to the Museum. (A printed copy is in the Museum Library) 13. Diary. Jack Grinton No 1043 C Coy 38th BN WW1. Transcribed from his note book. Begins on 1.3.1916 on enlistment to 16.11.1916 prior to movement to France. Also photographs, research notes, documents, list of items donated to the Museum, time lines. (Diary, a hard copy is in the Museum Library) (The above items were compiled by Peter Ball in his capacity as either Curator, Chairman Museum Sub Committee, Sub Committee member, Cataloguing Co Ordinator from 1998 to current. All were done on home computer, items listed as missing were at some point transferred to a Museum Computer and subsequently lost at a later date during Covid) 14. Video. Channel 9. The launch of the Soldiers Memorial Institute Digital Honour roll in 2017. The filming took place in the Vietnam Veterans shed at the Bendigo District RSL Havilah Road. The work relates to the 2,972 names on the Honour Roll of the building and the 499 identified who did not come back. The research and putting together was done by Bendigo RSL Historian Murray Poustie, interviews on the video are with Murray and Museum Volunteer Peter. The Boer War, WW2, Korea and Vietnam was added in 2019. .2) DVD in paper cover. 7.30 Report 23.4.2009, The discovery of the Some photographs. (Grinton collection) Collection re Peter Ball, refer Cat No 4704 for service details & RSL service. .1) My Passport Hard drive 2 TB, Blue colour one side, black the other, USB cord attached, contains 14 items re, a video, photos, stories, diaries, slide shows. .2) DVD in its paper cover with details on the DVD..2) "Discovery of the Somme photographs - The 7.30 Report - 23 April 2009".brsl, smirsl, 7.30, mixed media, somme, museum

These Visitors books were for the Soldiers Memorial Institute Military Museum in Pall Mall Bendigo (Now the Bendigo Military Museum) The books cover the period Oct 1997 - April 2025 and are ongoing. The Museum opened on a trial basis in Oct 1997 and then officially in Feb 1998.The first two entries in the book 1 are undated, the 3rd is dated 20.10.1997. Image No 2 shows the first entries in October 1997. Image No 3 shows the signatures of Prime Minister John Howard, Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer and Jack Lockett on 21.7.1998 when Jack received the French legion of Honour. He was 107 years at the time. Refer cat No 8145.10P for the award. Refer Cat No 8274 for the Museum's history..1) - .22) Twenty two Visitors books various shapes, sizes, colours and styles. The size quoted is an average of them all.brsl, smirsl, visitors