The latest newsletter from the London Pensioners' Society has just been published with some interesting stories and photos. It may be of interest to anzroc members who have had dealings with London in the past.
ANZ Retired Officers' Club (VIC)
ANZ Retired Officers' Club (VIC)
The latest newsletter from the London Pensioners' Society has just been published with some interesting stories and photos. It may be of interest to anzroc members who have had dealings with London in the past.
The ANZROC website has been active now for over 3 years and we have tried to keep information up to date with newsletters current and archived, articles on club activities / events , obituaries and a growing gallery of photographs.
This month our ANZROC member Elina Law has set up a page on Facebook called ANZ Retired Officers' Club which will be open for anyone to 'Like'.
Over the next few weeks Eamon and Elina are looking at putting a 'like' button on our ANZROC web site which will connect directly to the Facebook page and allow our members to interact with each other if they so choose.
The intent would be for any members to post information that could be of interest to others in our community on the Facebook site including old photos/ memorabilia related to ANZ. Eamon has got the ball rolling by extracting some albums from our photo gallery which have already attracted a number of comments.
In the 2 weeks since it was created we have 55 page likes and in the past week 1500 people have seen the posts, 300 people engaged, 172 likes, 26 comments, 3000 post clicks. Interestingly many of the connections are from friends of friends, family etc. Whilst the majority of members may not be on Facebook it is likely that your family and many friends are and they may be interested in seeing the gallery of pictures which have been loaded. Also, any of you who are on Facebook should be able to add pictures; articles etc. and tag the existing photos.
Feedback to Eamon is welcomed as we make every effort to provide value for money for your membership and he can be contacted on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ANZ-Retired-Officers-Club/230338967124613
Just a reminder that there are links to newsletters from WA, NSW and SA which can be accessed through the External Links section of our website. The WA site also includes newsletters from Q'land. There is also a link to the UK Pensioners Web Site.
Click below to go to the external links page
http://www.anzroc.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=9
David Howell is a War Historian who is an authority on Australian Military History with an extensive knowledge of the conflicts in New Guinea and the Kokoda Trail and presented his talk on “What happened to Uncle Sam”. This related to Captain Sam Templeton who featured in a series of coincidences and fortunate events on and around the Kokoda Trail that David felt changed the course of the campaign in New Guinea in the 1940’s although as a result Templeton lost his life as a POW in prison camp. David has travelled the Kokoda Trail (Track) many times and his presentation was an informative and fascinating exercise which was enjoyed by members present. David is the editor of the magazine “Remembrance” in his role for the past 4 years as Friends and fund raising coordinator for the Shrine of Remembrance. David has many other factual histories of events in both the First and Second World Wars in Papua New Guinea which would be worth hearing including the story of the events in World War 1 in Rabaul when Australians were fighting the German Native army and where our Gerry McPherson’s ancestor Captain (Doctor) Brian Pockley was the first Australian officer killed in the fighting at New Britain.
David is pictured with Ron Adams and Gerry McPherson
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