The COVID-19 virus pandemic has been likened by our political leaders to a war like situation. We have been directed to ‘stay at home’ and practice social isolation in order to stop the spread of the virus. Many businesses have been ordered to close and many people are working from home. Our streets are quiet […]
Tag: WW2
Warringal Cemetery : At War
Commonwealth War Graves Commission records list seventeen First World War servicemen that were interred in the Warringal (or Heidelberg) Cemetery. With just two exceptions of men who died in camp, all died in 1919 or later and after returning from the Western Front – the lateness of the deaths coincided with the establishment of a […]
Growing up in Pascoe Vale
I started school at the Catholic school in Kensington and soon after we moved to Pascoe Vale. That would have been about 1940 or 1941. I started at Pascoe Vale Primary School then all the Catholic children transferred to Blessed Oliver Plunckett’s. We spent many years in Ray Street, Pascoe Vale. Most people in the […]
Bomb Shelter
I first became aware that there had been an air raid shelter in my Grandparents backyard at Waiora Rd Heidelberg Heights, when I developed a negative of a photo I hadn’t seen before. It shows my Father’s parents Ilma and Herbert Douglas with their Pomeranian dog Rex, standing on the steps of the shelter my […]
Alan Moyes 2nd AIF
Private Moyes is remembered on the Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Tower From the Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser, Friday 13 March 1942 KILLED IN ACTION ST. ANDREWS The residents of St. Andrews deeply mourn the passing of an esteemed friend in Pte. Alan Moyes killed in action on March 4. Alan was a popular friend […]