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In December 2019 at the beginning of the fire season which was to be known around the world as ‘Black…
Peter Ensor had a long and distinguished career in the Royal Australian Navy. He enlisted in 1973 and finally retired…
By Simon Brooks RSL Queensland. WWII navy veteran turned actor Bruce Crowl wasn’t about to miss Townsville’s Victory in the…
Jillian Doyle is the matriarch of a family whose blood runs through the Coburg RSL Sub-Branch like the red…
These days, Ray Sullivan spends his time between a caravan and a house he and his wife Mitsue (Miki) own…
Alva Lewis has lived in her West Essendon home for seventy years. When she and her husband built the house,…
In the months leading up to the 1915 Melbourne Cup there were thousands of Australians enlisting to serve in what…
When Steve Cook was a boy, his father told him that every male member of his family had been in…
The Returned & Services League of Australia (RSL) has extended its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the…
RSL Victoria has today officially launched the 2025 Poppy Appeal. In the lead up to Remembrance Day on 11 November,…
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, RSL Victoria has released a limited-edition commemorative…
RSL Warragul Sub-Branch President Lynn Mizen was recently appointed as a Vice President of RSL Victoria’s State Executive, the first…
When the RSL was founded in 1915 as the Returned Services Association it would have been difficult to envisage just…
Today, 29 August 2025, RSL Victoria celebrates its 110th birthday. What started with a small meeting of a handful of…
In late August 1915 the last Australian offensive operations were being fought out on Hill 60 at Gallipoli. Having been…
In 2024 Vietnam Veterans in the regional town of Seymour, 90 kilometres north of Melbourne, believed they had conducted their…
On Friday August 15, 2025, RSL Victoria will be conduct a ceremony at the Shrine of Remembrance commemorating the 80th…
Helen Scott (nee Stephenson) and Monnie Mayor (nee Bowman) are veterans of the Second World War who share two things…
George Runting was born in Maldon in 1925, the child of a First World War soldier who continued to suffer…
Linda Westwood (nee Fleischer) was born in 1925, growing up on the Gippsland lakes in the small town of Paynesville….
The Caroline Springs RSL started from humble beginnings but has grown into a thriving Sub-Branch with hundreds of members which…
Lyall Butling was only 17 years old and just starting an apprenticeship as a plumber when the Second World War…
Following on from a report in The Australian newspaper, A Current Affair last week profiled the story of a 97-year-old…
To mark the 109th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles, RSL Victoria’s Communications Advisor Steven Baras-Miller reflects on his family’s…
