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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:Peter Brown: Off the Beaten Track
DESCRIPTION:Photographs  1972-2021. For historians this photographic collection includes images of the Western Districts taken over the last 50 years. \nPhotographer\, Peter Brown\, only ever uses a fixed lens and composes the image before he takes the shot. He doesn’t like cropping or excessive editing.  From 1972 to 2000 he used a Nikkorrmat camera he bought in Singapore in 1972.  He switched to a Nikon FM2 with a 55 mm lens. In 2015 he changed to a Nikon D600. \nThey are all stamped and numbered 1/10 on reverse. The photographer will print additional images as required. Maximum 10. \nPeter Brown adopts the philosophy that his art is a ‘journey of discovery’ taking him to all corners of the world from the village of Syvota in the remote Greek Island of Lefkada\, to Far North Queensland where he worked as a dentist in the early 1970s. Then\, as a keen hiker\, to the hiking trails of Tasmania\, Victoria and NSW as shown in this exhibition. Peter’s free-hand photography investigates the way light can transform ordinary objects into works of art. His particular interest in black and white film allows these prints to capture the atmosphere and mood of so many beautiful landscapes. \nThe gallery is open Mon – Fri 11-5pm\, Sat 12- – 5pm until the 4th December \n  \n\nBridget McDonnell Gallery \n130 Faraday St.\nCarlton Vic 3053\nAustralia \nPhone (613) 9347 1700 \nsales@bridgetmcdonnellgallery.com.au \n\nImage caption: Woolshed\, South Mokanger 1985
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/peter-brown-off-the-beaten-track/
LOCATION:Bridget McDonnell Gallery\, 130 Faraday St\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
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SUMMARY:The Siege That Forged an Enduring Australian and Polish Friendship: The Rats of Tobruk
DESCRIPTION:At this very special event\, hear how the friendships forged in a small\, coastal town in northern Africa influenced Australia’s post-war migration and created lifelong bonds across cultures. \n  \nThe Shrine of Remembrance\, in partnership with the Institute of National Remembrance\, Poland\, presents a digital event on Saturday 27 November honouring the enduring legacy of the Australian and Polish Rats of Tobruk. \nJoin Dr Mark Johnston\, Professor Marek Wierzbicki and Lucyna Artymiuk as they discuss the shared experiences of the Australians and Poles in Tobruk and the impact on Australia’s migration and connection to Poland. \nBetween April and November 1941\, 14\,000 Australians were besieged within the Libyan fortress of Tobruk by a powerful Italo-German army. Ordered to deny Tobruk to the enemy for eight weeks\, the men held out for five months. Pro-Nazi propagandist and broadcaster Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) described the defenders as ‘rats’—an insult which they adopted as a badge of honour. \nExhausted\, the Australian troops were progressively withdrawn from Tobruk between August and November 1941. Other troops including the Carpathian Brigade\, comprising soldiers who had escaped Poland after its conquest by the Nazis and Soviets in 1939\, relieved them. \nIt was the Poles who finally ended the siege when they captured Acroma and linked up with the British 8th Army. In recognition of this feat\, the Australians shared with the Poles their most venerated title. Henceforth\, the Poles too would be ‘Rats of Tobruk’. \nBetween 1947 and 1948\, Australian veterans of Tobruk helped sponsor the migration of 1\,500 Polish soldiers to Australia when it became impossible for these men to return to their homeland\, due to Soviet occupation. \n  \n  \nThis event will be live streamed on the  Shrine’s Facebook and YouTube channels. \n  \n  \nMore on the Speakers: \nLucyna Artymiuk is a second generation Polish Australian\, the daughter of a Polish airman who arrived on the third of five transports of Polish Immigrants after the Second World War. She Is currently a history PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne looking for the first time at Polish migrant soldier scheme to Australia in 1947–1948\, which was a litmus test for the implementation of mass migration of non-British migrants from the displaced person camps of Western Europe to Australia during the post-war reconstruction era. Lucyna has been a prominent member of the Polish Australian community for the past 30 years and is currently the Acting President of the Polish Museum and Archives in Australia.\nRecently she has authored her father’s biography From Poland to Where Ever in the World and in the process uncovered details of the post-war relationship between the Australian and Polish Rats of Tobruk that had not been documented or had been erased from the collective memory of the Polish and Australian veteran communities. \nDr Mark Johnston Mark is one of Australia’s leading authorities on the Second World War. He is the author of more than ten books\, including The Magnificent 9th: An Illustrated History Of The 9th Division 1940–46 and An Australian Band of Brothers which concerns Don Company of the2/43rd Battalion. The battalion fought in Tobruk\, El Alamein and New Guinea. Mark is the head of History\, Politics and Philosophy at Melbourne’s Scotch College. \nProfessor Marek Wierzbicki is a Polish historian and political scientist\, full professor\, lecturer at the Catholic University of Lublin (Faculty of Social Sciences); since 2007\, chief specialist (senior researcher) at the Institute of National Remembrance. His research interests include\, inter alia\, relations between the authorities and society in communist Poland\, ethnic relations under the Soviet occupation of Poland and Eastern Europe(1939–1941)\, the history of Polish political emigration after 1945 including wartime- military and civilian – exiles\, the social history of the 20th–21st centuries and the role and mentality of youth in both Eastern (communist) and Western (capitalist) Europe during the Cold War (1947–1991). One of his scholarly works is a biography of Zygmunt Szadkowski – one on the Polish Rats of Tobruk who became one of the leaders of the Polish political emigration after the Second World War. \n  \n  \nMedia Enquiries: \nInterviews with the speakers available upon request \n  \n  \nFor more information  \nAnna Lensky \nPitch Projects \n0425 766 780 \nanna@pitchprojects.com
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-siege-that-forged-an-enduring-australian-and-polish-friendship-the-rats-of-tobruk/
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