We’ve been offering single medal frame service tributes for years, but last week we were commissioned to manufacture a double one. Happy to add doubles to the range now, in addition to the other military and service medal frames we’re currently updating on the new web site. Personal service medal frames are an excellent way […]
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Internet Outage: New Site
You’ve probably heard about the ruckus overnight that resulted in lots of websites biting the dust. And as you’re probably aware, we’ve been frantically working behind the scenes to get a new website up. The planets collided overnight, as the Internet’s DNS issue was happening about the time our website died from age related server […]
Australia Attacked
21 OCT 1944: World War II and HMAS Australia is damaged by Kamikaze aircraft. The Japanese first used special air units (Tokkō-tai) to undertake suicide attacks on warships in the Allied fleet supporting the American landings on Leyte in the Phillipines. “People of the Philippines, I have returned”, declared General Douglas MacArthur as he waded […]
5th Division in France
21 OCT 1916: World War I and the 5th Australian Division is on the Western Front. The 5th Australian Division entered the front line near Flers on the Somme. By October the Somme battlefield was a waste of mud-bound craters. From March 1916 Australian divisions began arriving in France. Initially the troops found a pleasant […]
Vera Deakin and Red Cross
21 OCT 1915: World War I and the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau is established. Miss Vera Deakin, daughter of ex-Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, establishes the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau in Cairo. The Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau handled many thousands of enquiries from Australian families seeking information […]
