Lenscape
Gary Rossiter snapped this whistling kite chick while cruising the Noosa Everglades last week.
Anyone who has a photo of Noosa’s landscape or wildlife that...
Little Digger’s flight of fancy
ON CHRISTMAS night 1918, an orphaned boy wandered into the No 4 Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps at Biggendorf in Germany, begging for...
Why?
COOROY'S Jim Dunstan penned this poem while visiting the Australian War Cemetery in Lae, Papua New Guinea.
Jim served as a Warrant Officer in...
Leaves fall as the fallen
By RON LANE
THROUGHOUT many countries of the world there stand monuments dedicated to those men and women who made the supreme sacrifice. Some large,...
As ‘local’ as it gets
HAPPY 90th Birthday to Joan ‘Granny’ Buchanan who celebrated the milestone at the Tewantin Noosa Bowls Club last week.
Granny’s granddaughter, Bernie, said she is...
Joy remembers them all
By KATIE DE VERTEUIL
TEWANTIN resident Joy Anderson is the proud daughter of an original Anzac.
Her father John Gilbert (Jack) Ashton was a First Field...
Tewantin boys did us proud
TO most they are only names carved into stone - to be glanced upon once or twice a year as part of an Anzac...
Anzac lives in the surf
By RON LANE
The RSL and surf life saving clubs across Australia have joined forces to re-enact the Gallipoli landing on various beaches...
Flew with Bomber Command
By KATIE DE VERTEUIL
NOOSA local and World War II veteran David Morland has been passionate about flying for as long as he can remember.
Indeed...
Anzac art has power to move
By KATIE DE VERTEUIL
IN commemoration of this year’s Anzac centenary, members of Tinbeerwah Art Group have compiled a special exhibition paying tribute to those...
Men for all seasons
By JOLENE OGLE
THEY were bakers, clerks, coach drivers and farmers, who left their homes in Noosa Shire to set sail for a bloody war...
Navy veteran’s dawn service
By KATIE DE VERTEUIL
WHILE Anzac Day has always been a date of great significance for local Vietnam veteran Neil Beasley, this year is sure...
Fate of soldier settlements
Soldier settlement, as one of a range of post-World War I repatriation programs, was intended to reward soldiers for their service and support their...
