{"id":4426,"date":"2009-06-17T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fffaif.wordpress.com\/?p=4426"},"modified":"2009-06-17T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T22:17:10","slug":"gallipoli-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fffaif.org.au\/?p=4426","title":{"rendered":"*Gallipoli Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance <\/a>\u00a0conducts regular public lectures on a range of war related topics.<\/p>\n

\"Shrine<\/a><\/div>\n

\u00a0Photo: Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. [H. MacDonald]<\/p>\n

Recordings of many of talks are available to download, for a limited time, from the internet or by subscribing to the Shrine’s podcast service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Amongst the most recent World War 1 lectures available are:<\/p>\n

Gallipoli Sniper,<\/em> presented by Mr John Hamilton on 11 June 2009<\/p>\n

Gallipoli: The End of the Myth<\/em>, presented by Prof. Robin Prior on 16 April 2009<\/p>\n

\"Anzac<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Private William (Billy) Sing DCM. [AWM]<\/p>\n

A FFFAIF<\/em> Member who is a regular attendee of the Shrine’s lectures had this to say: I had the great pleasure of attending the lecture by John Hamilton at the Shrine of Remembrance this afternoon. John’s talk on the writing of “Gallipoli Sniper, The Life of Billy Sing” was just exceptional, one of the best talks I have heard at one of these Shrine Public Programs lectures.<\/em><\/p>\n

Extracts from\u00a0“Gallipoli Sniper, The Life of Billy Sing”<\/em>\u00a0were featured in DIGGER<\/em> 24, Page\u00a040\u00a0.<\/p>\n

John Hamilton, a FFFAIF<\/em> Member, is also the author of “Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You”<\/em> \u2013 the story of the charge of the Light Horse at The Nek.<\/p>\n

To download and listen to the\u00a0lecture click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

A new\u00a0exhibition showing how Australia coped with the debilitating effects of the First World War on a young nation was opened by the Minister for Veterans\u2019 Affairs, Alan Griffin at the Shrine on Friday 12 June 2009. Shell Shocked: Australia After Armistice<\/em> <\/a>shows that while a great many Australians celebrated the end of the war, the following years brought a period of grief and unparalleled adjustment which quickly tempered the joy of victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf the more than 330,000 Australians who left our shores to serve overseas during the First World War, more than 61,000 never returned home. Up to 160,000 returned injured or ill and for many their recovery was slow or life-long,\u201d Mr Griffin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1938, twenty years after the war, there remained more than 1,600 veterans in homes for the permanently incapacitated, and around 23,000 seeking care from repatriation hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe human toll on a young nation is highlighted in the exhibition through records, photographs, letters and medical reports which reflect many personal stories of Australians from different walks of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibition shows the many ways Australia and Australians coped with the aftermath of the war. Its stories include the lasting impact on the women of the Australian Army Nursing Service, the anxiety of those at home and the introduction of the Repatriation system which fulfilled the promise to care for those who suffered from their war service and provide for the dependants of those who did not return.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShell Shocked<\/em> also shows the treatment of returned Indigenous servicemen \u2013 equal as soldiers but not as civilians, the internment camps for \u2018enemy aliens\u2019, and the community and government response in building memorials on battlefields and here, at home, post war,\u201d Mr Griffin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an insightful exhibition into what was a truly daunting time for our young country.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Based on files from the National Archives of Australia and funded by a grant from the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs, Shell Shocked<\/em> is on a national tour and <\/em>will be on display at the Shrine until 26 July, covering the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

The Families and Friends of the First AIF<\/strong><\/em> thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers \u2013 presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood \u2013 dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds Minister Snowdon and his British counterpart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n

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