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Trying to get into contact with ex-serviceman Paul ‘pour habit’ Brandt. We are due for a beers. Retired 2023. Last know whereabouts: 5th Engineer Support Regiment.

Join the 'One Million Australians for Anzac Day' Facebook group. Anzac Day is A-OK.

This Anzac Day, we’re calling on Australians everywhere to stand together in remembrance. From the largest city dawn services to the smallest country cenotaphs, more than a million of us gather each year to honour the courage, sacrifice, and mateship that define our story.

The Australian Flag Society has set up a new Facebook community: “One Million Australians for Anzac Day.”

It’s a space to:

• Share your local service details and photos
• Honour family members who served
• Connect with others who will be at dawn services and marches
• Keep alive the spirit of remembrance for future generations

👉 Join us here: www.facebook.com/groups/remembertheglorious25th

Together, let’s make sure the one million voices of Anzac Day are heard, remembered, and carried forward.

Please like and share to show that you are a proud Australian and proud of the one true Australian flag!

The Royal Australian Artillery National Memorial is to be extended. This will enable the incorporation of the service and sacrifice of Gunners over the last 50 years. To achieve this, we need your help. For more information, please visit www.raanm2027.com or www.australianartilleryassociation.org

I am putting together my fourth book (rough title) "Proud to be a Pogo-Aussie Diggers Supporting the Combat Force" and I would like to hear your stories.

Seeking any information re the following who served with 131 Div Loc Bty RAA in SVN - Edward Bruce Cooper b.1950; Frederick Brian Markwick b.1948; Terry Leslie Welsh b.1949; Robert Andrew Bruce b.1945; Eric Raymond Thompson b.1948; John Creighton Martin b. 1941; 131 Locators Association Inc. - Member.

In 1949, 3,000 troops were sent to the Hunter Valley to break a miners' strike. All services were involved in Operation Excavate. Seeking anyone with memories, material or information about this operation.

Seeking families of veterans to apply for the Greek Campaign medal. From the 17,000 Australians who served in Greece 1940-41, only 90 families remain to apply. This could be the last search to apply and receive the medal.

Eligible current serving and former RAAF members are invited to join the MSA, a national association founded to foster the spirit of friendships formed in the Service, and to promote the ideals founded in the maritime flying squadrons of the RAAF, RAN and other military forces. Currently, we have over 200 members from Nos 10, 11, 292 and 492 Squadrons and No 92 Wing. Annual reunions are held in Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, and the Sydney/Wollongong area.

Seeking relatives or friends of the late Leading Seaman Walter Frederick Sainty (RAN WW2). Undertaking research concerning his WW2 service - in particular his escape from Singapore in February 1942.

Seeking family/friends of P.V. Hewitt who was a member of RAAF, No 19 Radio Apprentice Course at Laverton, graduating in 1967.

We are seeking contact with these veterans or their families. The second edition of our 2022 book For Love of Country is being published in early 2026 and we would like to gather more names and stories for inclusion in the book, particularly but not limited to post-Vietnam War veterans.

Seeking to buy an original hard copy of 'The Brown and Blue Diamond at War' (The history of the 2nd/2/27th Infantry Battalion).

Searching for members. Course CPL was Eriickon?

Seeking any personnel who served on HMAS Perth in 1993, and in particular during 'Exercise Starfish’.

The Polish Ex-Servicemen’s Association in Australia (Hobart Sub-Branch) is undertaking stage one of the Memorial Project. Our mission is to identify, restore, and maintain the graves of Polish veterans of WWII who settled in Tasmania after their service. We are seeking to make contact with living relatives of the following Polish Carpathian (3 D.S.K) veterans: Jan Zolobczuk, Rudolf Lucki, Jan Marszalek, Jerzy Treutler/Tadeusz Jerzy Treutler de Traubenberg, Waclaw Wojtaszek, Marian Aleksandrowicz, Edmund Zylski, Wojciech Grabek. We believe that most of these veterans passed away in Tasmania without family and are buried in unmarked or neglected graves.

I have compiled a USB Somalia Compilation with 2 books I have authored in its content. The Compilation involves the Australian Tri-Service Contingents, 1 RAR Bn Gp and the NZDF during 1992-1994, assisting the Somalia population at a time of Famine and dealing with local warlords. I am raising funds for the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation Inc. The price of the USB is $50 incl postage.

Seeking contact with members of 18th Intake National Service from WA called up on 1st October 1969. Recruit training at Puckapunyal, Victoria. 56th Reunion to be held at Anzac House, 28 St George's Tce, Perth on Thursday 2nd October commencing 12 noon.

I am looking for Gordon who I met while on R&R. He lived in Avalon Beach (Sydney). I have valuable information for him. I'm not sure what branch of service he was in.

Come and join likeminded veterans at a mid-week Model Making Group. I have run a similar group, in my store in Boronia Vic, on Saturdays for countless years.
It's all free and I also offer an APOD discount should you require anything.

Seeking shipmate, ex ABQMG, R107318 Gordon Jeffries. Joined 1969/early 1970s, Moran Division, 1st ship HMAS Sydney.