Programmes of Post WW2 Celebrations for Bendigo Citizens. Saturday July 20 1946.1. Souvenir Program - paper, blue printing, red, white and blue flags, A4. folded. 2. Souvenir program - cardboard, A4 folded, cream background, blue printing, blue and yellow sketches.1. Bendigo Citizens Welcome Home Celebrations, Grand concert in honour of those who served, Town Hall, Saturday July 20th. 2. Bendigo Citizens Gratefully acknowledge your service and warmly "Welcome You Home" Saturday July 20th 1946.ww2, welcome home, bendigo

Bendigo Citizens Welcome Home Souvenir Program for Saturday July 20, 1946. Crest of City of Bendigo, images of the Snamrock and the Fountain on cover. Cream coloured with blue and gold printing. Program includes a Procession and a Tableau at the Upper Reserve involving 3000 school children. Sports Program followed. See 74.215 Folder 6 .event, official, ww2 welcome home

Certificate issued to "L.A.C. E.N. TREVENA". Ernest Norman Trevena No. 14911 (Born Bendigo, enlisted Melbourne) on 24.5.1944 in the RAAF age 19 years. Postings, Townsville 20.12.1944, Alexshafen New Guinea 1.2.1945, Bouganville 9.12.1945, Ransford 28.3.1946. Operational service outside Australia 1.2.1945 - 27.3.1946. Discharged 20.5.1946 with the Rank of LAC in No 39 Operational Base Unit, Certificate - on paper, beige coloured with blue, red and gold coloured print surrounded by decorative scroll work. At the bottom is photograph, portrait in black and white of "L.A.C. E.N. Trevena. Signed by President, Welcome Home Committee and Secretary, Welcome Home Committee. Frame - timber, brown coloured varnish and gold paint. Decorative moulding. Glass front. Cardboard and brown paper backing. Picture Framer - adhesive label.Handwritten signatures in black ink pen, "Frank J. Every" and "D.D. Young". Adhesive label - white paper with blue ink print. "J.F. GOODALL/ Picture Framer/ 109 View Street/ Bendigo"framed accessories, certificate, ww2, welcome home committee.

Part of the collection of William (Bill) Thomason. Refer Cat 4136P.Hard cream colour card headed "Menu" the a list of courses being supplied at the Welcome Home Service on the 28th June 1946 in Axedale. Copy of the Red Australian Ensign (Flag) in top corner.Headed "Menu" - "Caterer, Miss M. Makepeace".collection of william (bill) thomason, menu, ww2, axedale welcome home

Welcome home parade for the Bendigo service people WW2. The picture of the Cenotaph is not the one in use today. (2022)Single sheet of paper. Black and white photographs of various sizes. “The Weekly Times, July 24, 1946” Bendigo’s Welcome Home “ww2, bendigo, welcome home

Most Councils held Welcome Home or Remembrance Programmes after the War. Part of the collection of William (Bill) Thomason. Refer Cat No. 4136P.Cream coloured folded card with red and blue edge. Australian and British flags on front and picture of Axedale Hall. Inside on page 2 is a list of those who served from the area and on page 3, a Toast list for the program for the day.Front has "Axedale & District Welcome Home June 28th 1946" Heading "Souvenir Programme".collection of william (bill) thomason, welcome home programme, axedale & district.

Part of the Bennetts Collection. See Cat No. 9726P for details f "Alva Marie Callaghan's (nee Bennetts) service.50th Anniversary Certificate commemorating the end of WW2. Text in black print. Facsimile signatures at bottom in blue. Gold decorative border on a gray background. Centre emblem features a picture of a family welcoming home a serviceman.Emblem has words 'AUSTRALIA REMEMBERS 1945-1995'. Facsimile signatures of Prime Minister, Minister for Veteran's Affairs and local MP. Handwritten in black ink: 'Alva Marie Callaghan'.alva bennetts, alva callaghan, australia remembers, ww2 certificate

The items in this Archival folder relate to Arthur Edmund TRANTER V50166, VX52843 POW, his wife Pat and Daughter Brenda. There are two more Archival folders, Cat No's 7957.2 & 7958.2. Refer Cat No 7944 for A.E. Tranters service history..1) Black Archival folder container. .2) Black Archival folder, 3 ring binder with plastic inserts. This has the following: 1. Certificate of Service 2nd AIF 1941 - 45 2. Certificate of service CMF 1939 - 1941 3. Corporals certificate 38th BN 1939. 4. Certificate relating to a "mention in Despatches" 5 &6. Letters re the awards of the "Efficiency Medal" 7. Black and white photo with "Streader, Drake and Tranter" 1939. 8. Ships menu "TMS SIBAKAK" Sept 1941. 9. 2/29th BN reunion menu 50th Anniversary. 10. Document on "How to learn Morse Code". 11. Document, Grant of a War pension, Tranter 1951. 12. Document re War pension Payments. 13. Document re "Return to Civilian life for POW"s. 14. Exercise book from Singapore with names re 2/29th BN. 15. Cartoon copy, Medan Melbourne Frog Cup 1942. 16. Hand drawn sketch black pencil of "Tranter" by E.W. Porter 17th Dec 1942. 17. List of recommendations for an "MID" re POW's in captivity. 18. POW working party list and casualties 8.3.1944 at "Atjeh". 19. POW casualties on the "Harukiki Maru"26.6.1944. 20. Eight newspaper cuttings re casualty lists and War news. 21. List of Australian POW's in Sumatra. 22. Menu Sheraton Hotel 2/29th BN Reunion. 23. Five photos of the Tranter Family re wife Pat and Daughter Brenda. 24. 2/29th BN Xmas card 1942. Card, General Base AIF Malaya 1941 - 42. 25. Twenty four POW Post cards via Australian/Japanese Red Cross. 26. Nineteen telegrams re "Welcome home 1945" 27. Two photos re "Welcome home, Shire of McIvor. 28. Letter written at sea to Pat and Brenda. 29. Welcome home luncheon menu Shire of McIvor 8th April 1946. 30. Letter dated 15.9.1945 to Pat and Brenda. album pow, documents, tranter

Souvenier Programme "Welcome Home to Returned Servicemen" by Myer Despatch Social Club (Contains numerous signaures) (part of COL049)documents, ww2, general

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

Certificate - Welcome Home to Stawell c1946-47 war service recognitionstawell, ww2

Murray Comrie Collection. The Memorial was first unveiled at a Thanksgiving Service in 1918. It now commemorates Tarnagulla residents who served in WWI and WWII. This stone monument was created and erected by Mr. Barber of Dunolly in October 1919. It was unveiled by Brigadier General Brand C.B. C.M.G. D.S.O. at 2:30pm on Saturday November 8th, 1919. The Welcome Home Committee, formed 2nd July 1917, was largely responsible for commissioning the monument. Foundation members were Mrs. B. Patterson, Mrs J. Bock and the Misses P. Lemin, Violet Radnell, D. Dyer and Doris and Phoebe Bock. The Committee also arranged 'Welcome Home' functions for each local soldier returning home after service in the First World War. Tarnagulla had a very large number of enlistments for its population. Monochrome photograph of the Soldiers Memorial monument in Tarnagulla. Unknown date. Probably a copy of a low-resolution news photograph.tarnagulla, war, military, service, commemoration, soldiers, veterans, ww1, ww2, first world war, second world war, school, war memorial, monument, comrie, radnell, lemin, dyer, patterson, alexander, bock, brigadier general brand

Both Albums contain the Thomas & May Staley Collection WW1. Besides photos & postcards there are numerous other cards, articles from Newspapers, certificates covering numbers of people. There are photos re Soldiers with no identification, others with names & Regimental Numbers easily identifiable and can be matched to other photos and postcards. Easily identified are Thomas Staley (served in WW1 & WW2) May Staley (Maiden name “EVERY”) Her 3 brothers Francis, George and Ernest Every. Miss Thomas (Janey) is May Staleys Auntie. George and Ernest served in WW1. Many of the Soldiers come from around the Bendigo area notably White Hills and Epsom. Many are in the same Unit notably the 29th BN AIF. Thomas’s two sons WW2 are in the collection as well. Due to the content range of the Albums and local area the collection has been sorted into different categories as much as possible. There are 46 Catalogue No's, refer Catalogue No 10758.2P for all the collection to come up..1) Album. The front and back covers have newspaper articles glued in, they cover Poetry re the War eg: “A bit of Khaki”, “Here comes a Soldier”, “Bravo Australia”, “The wail of Belgium”, “The Prince of Peace”, “Our fallen heroes”. There are 3 articles re Pte George Every titled, A true Comrade”, “Welcome Home”, “Citizens Welcome”. The majority of the photos were related to WW1. .2) This album has space for 2 photos per page, there are 87postcards in place which relate to holidays in France and England mostly pre WW1. There are 21 lose photos and cards relating the same. Other items and various cards re WW1 were also in the album.photos, postcards, tmstaleycollection