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SUMMARY:Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934\, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days\, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months.\nThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria is mounting an exhibition which takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the Dutch entrant\, the Uiver. The Uiver (stork) is the most famous of the entries even though it came second. It was forced by bad weather to make an emergency landing in Albury where the locals used the town’s lights to spell A L B U R Y in morse code and then created a make-shift aerodrome on the racetrack using car headlights to con the plane down. Macpherson Robertson always maintained that the Uiver\, a commercial KLM flight that went to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies with a little extra hop to Australia\, came closest to his ideal as Robertson sponsored the race to encourage commercial flight not speed. \nThe first aircraft to finish was the De Havilland DH-88 Comet Grosvenor House\, a specially- designed racing aircraft flown by Charles W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black. Both pilots were much feted in Melbourne. Photos show a handsome pair being mobbed by thousands. The adulation didn’t last\, Campbell Black was killed by a plane propeller just 2 years later and Scott suicided. \nHarold Brook was the pilot with the least experience – barely the minimum 100 hours. He had a paying passenger\, the 28-year old Miss Ella Lay\, who knitted her way to Australia. She was a pilot herself and the only woman to travel the full race distance from Mildenhall in England to Melbourne. Ella stayed on in Melbourne\, took up nursing\, and in 1941 enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the very building where the exhibition is being held (the former Army Medical Corps Drill Hall). Ella died in 2005\, aged 99. The Times printed her obituary. \nThe race generated many more fabulous stories including C. J. “Jimmy” Melrose who at 21 was the youngest pilot and one of the few Australians. Jimmy was funded by his mother and his De Havilland Puss Moth was christened My Hildergarde in her honour. He too died\, too young\, just two years later in a plane crash. \nThe last plane to arrive was piloted by Ray Parer and Godfrey Hemsworth and funded by New Guinea miners. Another entry was owned by well-known Australian pioneer aviator Horrie Miller who at the time was managing director of MacRobertson-Miller Aviation. He engaged James Wood and Don Bennett to fly the race however they came unstuck in Aleppo. As Bennett wrote in his autobiography\, they “… hit the ground with a fair wallop and the undercarriage collapsed; down she went and the nose went in as we whipped over on our back. I was in the tail of the machine and my velocity from one end of the cabin to the other was remarkable. Even more astounding was the degree of “concertina-ing” of my body which took place at the far end.” That was the end of their race.
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LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Ern Latchford: his WWI adventures in western Europe\, Persia and Russia.
DESCRIPTION:Ern Latchford: his WWI adventures in western Europe\, Persia and Russia.\nThis event will now be delivered by Zoom. The invitation details are below. \nIn late 1918\, thousands of Australian soldiers\, exhausted and scarred by war in Europe\, began to head home. However\, one ANZAC headed the wrong way\, toward more conflict and risk in vast and frozen Siberia\, thousands of miles from his fiancée waiting on the family farm in Western Victoria. This is the story of Ernest Latchford MBE MC\, told through his articulate\, observant letters home from three very distinct theatres of war. \nErn Latchford was one of the early recruits to newly federated Australia’s embryonic militia and when war did break out in 1914\, he was reluctantly held back to train the battalions that were soon to land in Gallipoli. He finally reached the Western Front in 1916\, and served with distinction through the bloody battles of Messines and then Passchendaele\, where he earned a Military Cross. In early 1918\, he (among a handful of other Australians) was personally selected by General Sir John Monash to serve in the ‘hush-hush’ Dunsterville campaign in Persia (Dunsterville* led his ‘Dunsterforce’ of elite troops across present-day Iran in an attempt to prevent an invasion of India by a combined Germano-Turkish force). His particular responsibility was to train Armenian refugees against the Ottoman Army (and to protect the oil wealth of the Persian Gulf). At the end of the war\, instead of returning to Australia\, he became the only Australian to be deployed in central Siberia to train White Russian forces against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War. \nEvery week\, irrespective of location\, intensity of battle or injury he wrote to his fiancée\, Linda Dehnert in Western Victoria. These previously unseen letters\, often many pages in length\, were always passionate and vivid as he describes the politics of the conflicts and the horrors of the battles\, especially the loss of much-loved colleagues. He eloquently described the cities and towns he passed through and the variety of nationalities he came across\, including French farmers and villages; the Arab\, Armenians and Persians of the Middle East and finally the Russians\, caught in the bloody conflict that would have ramifications for decades. In between\, he wrote romantically of his courtship of Linda and the joy of life at home on the farm. \nMark Latchford is a Sydney-based businessman with a passion for history. As the son and grandson of professional army officers\, he had a nomadic upbringing\, which also instilled a particular interest in military history. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree in Political Science and Economic Geography and then undertook a 35-year corporate career with the IBM corporation which included postings to Adelaide\, Tokyo\, Paris and Hong Kong. He is the father of 3 grown children and in semi-retirement continues his passion for history\, biography and travel. Letters to Lily Vale is his first published book.  \n* Lionel Charles Dunsterville (1865-1946) was a contemporary and close friend of Rudyard Kipling who based his character Stalky on Dunsterville.\n\n\n\n\nThe Zoom details are \nFriday 11 June\, 12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST \nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83143108812?pwd=VmpzTzVjZndFN0VJNGR2OFRObC9Idz09     \nMeeting ID: 831 4310 8812 \nPasscode: 717317
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