CHP RSL Sub Branch - VIETNAM VETERANS & VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC DAY

Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club & Sub-Branch

WELOME OUR COMMUNITY TO JOIN OUR

SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE

Vietnam Veterans Day ^&Victory in The Pacific Day

11am Sunday 13 August 2023

Bert Crook Memorial | Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club

VIETNAM VETERANS - PLEASE LET US KNOW YOU’RE COMING

We would like to ensure we accommodate all who attend
and ask that each Veteran individually register their attendance.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE
or call 9559 0000

CLICK HERE to go to our communal neighbourhood

READ
the story of Vietnam Veteran Ernest Newbold

ENJOY
his photography collection from Vietnam

SHARE
your story in our online neighbourhood

WATCH
our communal ode [featuring Ernest]

CMNL.COM.AU

Commemoration services bring people together and provide veterans opportunities to reunite, connect and to remember the fallen. At RSL Clubs across the country, veterans, families of veterans passed and present and communities gather.

.At these occasions veterans share like-minded stories, passing them on through generations, never to be forgotten.

LEST WE FORGET

VP Day
15th August

This date commemorates Japan's acceptance of the Allied demand for unconditional surrender made on] 14 August 1945.

For Australians, it meant that the Second World War was finally over. The following day, 15 August, is usually referred to as VP Day.

On VP Day, we remember Australia's war efforts from 1942 to 1945 in the Pacific region, including in Singapore, Borneo, Malaya, Papua, New Guinea and New Britain. It was a time when people worked hard and cooperated to defend the nation.

We commemorate those who served in the war. Some 40,000 Australians didn't return home to their families.

Over 17,000 of them lost their lives while fighting in the war against Japan, some 8000 of whom died in Japanese captivity.

LEST WE FORGET

SYDNEY, NSW. 1945-08-15.

A section of the crowd in martin place during the Victory Pacific celebrations.

Vietnam Veterans Day
18th August

The Vietnam War was Australia's longest military engagement of the 20th Century. The arrival of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam in South Vietnam during July and August 1962 marked the start of Australia’s involvement in the war.

The Battle of Long Tan was a significant moment in Australia's war in Vietnam. On 18 August 1966, in a rubber plantation near the village of Long Tan, Australian soldiers fought one of their fiercest battles of the war.

The men of Delta Company, 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, faced a force of some 2000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The battle was fought in wet and muddy conditions during a heavy tropical downpour.

By the end of the day, 17 Australians had been killed in action and 25 were wounded, one of whom died a few days later. This was the largest number of casualties in a single operation since the Australian Task Force had established its base at nearby Nui Dat the previous April.

On this day, we commemorate all the battles fought by Australians in Vietnam, from large-scale operations to platoon and section-level encounters. We remember the sailors of the Royal Australian Navy who supported land operations, and members of the Royal Australian Air Force who served in combat and transport roles.

LEST WE FORGET

Long Tan cross ceremonies with D Company, 6th Battalion

The Royal Australian Regiment - New Zealand (Anzac).