Current News
| Click here to view the program for the Porton Day Service at Edmonton Tues 8 June 2010
Click here to view the program for Porton Day Memorial Service at Ross Island Townsville Thur 10 June 2010 |
| Click here to visit The Australian Newspaper's Interactive Website which gives an excellent soldier's five of the pivotal World War I Battle of Villers-Bretonneux.
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Click here to read the Northern Services Courier article about three 51FNQR soldiers' emotional and physical journey as they walked the Kokoda Track. |
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Click here to read an extract about 51 Bn FNQR featuring in the Cairns RSL newsletter Sit Rep September 2009 by Editor Doug Lee ACS. |
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Click here to read the story of 31/51st WWII Veteran Frank Hammond and his story of the capture of a Japanese mountain gun at Tsimba ridge that now guards the doors of the Mareeba RSL.
Thanks to the Tableland Advertiser and John Hardy. |
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Click here to read the 51 Bn FNQR Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Brendan Cox's Christmas Address and Farewell to the Battalion and its Association as he prepares for his new posting.
Click here to read CO's address to the Battalion Association at the Annual General Meeting held at Porton Barracks August 31st, 2008. The CO discusses the development of the Regional Force Surveillance Unit, the role of the Battalion, it's operational focus and other details. |
| Click here to view the current Newsletter - Porton Post. |
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Click here to read about the moving search for this young WW1 soldiers' identity. In 2007 the Australian War Memorial publicly displayed for the first time this haunting photograph of an unknown young Digger. This sparked an amazing sequence of events culminating in the reinterring of the remains of our own Pte. George Storey 51st Bn 1st AIF.
51st Bn Association would like to extend its thanks to the Australian War Memorial and Defence Magazine for kindly allowing the reproduction of the above story and images. |
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Click here to read our own Don Lawie's article published in the Australian War Memorial's Wartime Magazine recounting the vicious jungle fighting endured by 31/51 Bn 2nd AIF Diggers on Bougainville in and around Tsimba Ridge in 1945.
51st Bn Association would like to extend its thanks to the Australian War Memorial and Don Lawie for kindly allowing the reproduction of the above story and images. |
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Click here to read the gripping account of the seminal battle at Porton, Bonis Plantation. In all our Battalions' military history, this battle honour ranks as one of the boldest and bloodiest. Written by the 51st Battalion's Don Lawie and published by the Australian War Memorial's Wartime Magazine.
51st Bn Association would like to extend its thanks to the Australian War Memorial and Don Lawie for kindly allowing the reproduction of the above story and images. |
Click here to view the story of WWII digger Ernie Huxley MM as told to Northern Services Courier April 30, 2009.
Click here to view Ray Pescud's visit to Porton 2009.
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