Commemorations

Anzac Day 25 April 2025

Vietnam Veterans Day 18 August

Peacekeepers and Peacemakers

14 September

Remembrance Day 11 November

Anzac Day 25 April

Dawn Service 6.30am at The Cenotaph, Portarlington

Service 9.00am at St Leonards Memorial Hall, St Leonards

March 10.45am from RSL to The Cenotaph, Portarlington

Anzac Day 25 April

March

Anzac Day 

Brian & Lyn Bergin

St Leonards Primary School captains at St Leonards Memorial Hall

Portarlington Primary School captains at Portarlington Cenotaph

Says it all..........

Remembrance Day 11 November 

11.00 am Service and wreath laying at the Cenotaph, Portarlington, followed by morning tea at the RSL Sub-Branch

The opening ceremony of the Portarlington Cenotaph Memorial in 1919

Vietnam Veterans Day 18 August

Ceremony 1.30 pm at the RSL Remembrance Garden, 8 Harding St Portarlington

Followed by refreshments

Peacekeepers Day 14 September

Our members attend the various services and wreath laying ceremonies.

VALE

Pastor Alan Gorman - RAAF A156545

17/5/1926 - 15/10/2025

served 9/2/1944 to 5/3/1948

Walter "Wally" CHAPMAM - British Army

25/2/1929 - 26/11/2022

Royal Artilliary 281 HAA

Greame Frederick BAKER - RAN R51089

16/12/1937 - 04/06/2022

HMAS Sydney, Quadrant, Melbourne, Quickmatch, Voyager, Penguin, Gascoyne, Cerberus

Far East Strategic Reserve

Graham Douglas McCOLL - RAAF- A36690

18/6/1934 - 16/3/2022

National Service 3 Flt 25 SQN

Brian Lester WIKMAN - Army -220166

26/12/1953 - 06/01/2022

Army Apprentice, Field Supply Btn, 2 Cavalry Reg, Canungra Workshop HQ Training Command, Equip Acquisition and Management

James (Jim) William MILLS - NAVY - A15853

24/02/1929 - 18/08/2021

Fleet Air Arm, HMAS Cerberus, Penguin, Albatross, Lonsdale, Passage Stratheden

Douglas Ian KIRK RAAF - RAAF - A314642

12/04/1940 - 05/06/2021

1SD, RAAF Base Darwin, Laverton, Tottenham, HQSC

Edward "Ted" BRADBROOK - ARMY - V39498, VX106644

WW2 New Guinea. CMF & AIF 1941-1946 Driver Mechanic 

12/12/1922 to 28/4/2021

Laurence John FINLAYSON - RAAF - A37411

1952 to 1958 Motor Transport Fitter

12/3/1933 to 24/4/2021

Robert "Bob" HANNAH - Army 3/55738

CMF 25/8/60 - 5/12/63, 28/1/65 - 7/2/68, Gunner, Artillery Surveyor

07/01/1940 to 29/6/2020

Ramon Miechel KERLEY RAAF A311448 & Army 3168805

National Service RAAF 1954-1960, Army 6th Sig Rgt 1963-1965

16/08/1935 to 17/06/2020

Marie Elaine VERNON - VF513667 (Army)

WW2 1943-1946 Nurse at 106 & 108 AGH Bonegilla

07/05/1925 to 30/12/2019

Eileen Sharp - War Widow

28 years President Ladies Auxiliary

10 years President Laurel Group

David Charles HATCHER  -  3/74536 (Army)

National Service and CMF

15/11/1935 to 04/10/2019

Chris SHEA - 116821 (RAAF)

WW2  -  1942 to 1946

27/05/1924 to 23/08/2019

Robert Lewis EVANS - 129630 (Army)

WW2

20/10/1919 to 14/07/2019

Grahame Robert CURTIS - 351082 (Army)

National Service and CMF

21/04/1937 - 01/06/2019

Marian KAUFMAN - VF396623 Aust Spec Wireless Group (AWAS)

WW2

10/09/1924 to 16/12/2018

Philip DOHENY - (RAF)

WW2

30/04/1924 to 14/11/2018

Leslie ATKINSON  - 3723509 (Army) 

National Service

29/01/1935 to 07/07/2018

Peter Hill to (RAF and RAAF)

WW2

7/06/1921 - 1/06/2018

"Stan" Robert Sameul Stanley KNOX  -  81037 (RAAF)

WW2 1942 - 1946

03/02/1924 to 18/01/2018

Jack Alexander POWER  -  VX79139 (Army)

WW2 11th Div 159 L.A.A., 112 L.A.A. Darwin

01/06/1925 to 17/12/2017

Yvonne "Vonnie" Gladys SCHNEIDER (Allen)  -  104949 (WAAAF)

WW2 - Nov 1942 to May 1943

19/01/1923 to 01/09/2017

Robert "Bob" William HALEY  -  VX 2137 (Navy)

Leading Stoker during WW2 1940-1946

22/11/1919 to 1/7/2017

Donald Garret WOODCOCK - 67794 (Royal Navy)

30/9/1919 - 22/6/2017

Thomas "Tom" Stephen NANCARROW  -  VX61119  (Army)

2/24 Australian Infantry Battalion

Served in Africa, New Guinea, Morotai and Borneo

14/10/1924 to 11/10/2016

Robert G FYFE  - VX16021 (Army)

2/12 Field Regiment

10/7/1921 to 6/10/2016

Norman James HUMPHREYS    -   VX151773 (Army)

57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF

Served in New Guinea

12/6/1923 to 21/7/2016

Edna Margaret PICKETT (nee Dunstan)  -  91163 (WAAAF)

served in Melbourne, Pt Cook, Benalla, Ballarat, Fishermans Bend, Lake Boga and Ransford

29/9/1919 to 11/8/2016

Godfrey "ROY" BARNES - VX119629 (Army)

172 Battery, 116th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment

Served in Dutch New Guinea

22/11/1923 to 28/8/2016

Leonard William OLSEN 252583 (RANR)

National Service

9/9/1936 to 29/10/2016

Harold Phillip YOUNG PM5627 (RAN)

HMAS Lonsdale

Served in WW2

19/7/1925 to 8/12/2016

Clifton Gordon BARKER  157345  (RAAF)

RAAF East Sale

Served in WW2

3/9/1926 to 14/9/2016