18 Januaryy 2016
A Star News Group Publication ICE YOUR VO
E VOIC YOUR
FOR 150 YEARS
Celerating
10 August 2015
50 YEARS FOR 1
A Star News Group
A Star News Group Publication
20 April 2015
Dandy boys faced up to dirty work...
Our heroes groAROLD Tulloch and George Hol- return to their jobs as butchers, bakers, ford were used to having printer’s cers, farmers or printers. ink on their hands, not human They would never marry; never father chilblood. dren and never be comforted by the warm emThe Dandenong lads worked together as brace of their mother’s arms. printers at the Journal before they signed up The Journal and its rival newspaper at the for war in 1914. time, the Dandenong Advertiser, remain preBoth soon found themselves in the hell cious conduits of those men’s voices, thoughts that was Gallipoli. and feelings. Harold and George survived to tell the tale Through letters, diaries and messages - as we know and remember this Anzac Day, home we have a graphic and moving account many did not. munThe carnage at Gallipoli, which was repli- of the extraordinary as well as the more cated across Europe between 1914 and 1918, dane moments of life as a soldier during the tore the heart out of many country towns like Great War. Dandenong. One hundred years after the historic landTownsfolk farewelled their young men ing at Anzac Cove, this week’s Journal is as they embarked to fight in far-off foreign devoted to honouring and remembering never lands surely knowing that many would the locals who gave so much. return. That they would never again pull on forget. we Lest never football; country play their boots and
H
YEAR IN REVIEW INSIDE: A LOOK BACK AT WHAT MADE NEWS IN 2015
ICE YOUR VO
Publication
FOR 150 YEARS
Y
■ The life of former Gallipoli soldier and newspaper man captured in history...
Journal’s spirit THE Dandenong Journal’s person of the year for 2015 embodies the two events which defined an historic year for the paper – the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and the Journal’s 150th anniversary. Harold Tulloch was a 24-year-old Journal compositor, when he signed up for World War I and eventually found himself mired in the bloody battle for the Gallipoli peninsula. Harold’s story featured in April’s special edition marking the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and also in the bumper August edition celebrating the Journal’s 150th birthday. While many other lads from the Greater Dandenong area signed up for war, it was Harold’s voice which spoke loudest during research for the Gallipoli edition, not muffled by the intervening century thanks to the simple yet beautifully observed letters the sergeant dispatched to his hometown work mates. Writing in June 1915, the then Corporal Tulloch described his boat being pelted with shrapnel as it was towed towards the peninsula’s fatal shore on 25 April. “We kept the boat till it grounded, then sprung ashore, or rather into water up to our waists, holding our rifles well out of the water and waded ashore,” he wrote. “Just as we got ashore shrapnel whistled over the boat following us, causing about a dozen casualties.” Harry survived the war. In September 1915 he was transferred to Malta with dysentery and enteric fever (typhoid). In December of the same year he was declared unfit for service and invalided home to Australia. More of Harry’s story was unearthed during research for the Journal’s 150th
Journal printer and Anzac veteran Harold Tulloch.
Harold Tulloch’s coffin is driven past the Journal office on the back of a fire truck.
2015 PERSON OF THE YEAR special edition after the newspaper tracked down his daughter Barbara who was then living in a Pakenham retirement village. She said her dad never talked about the war describing him as a “very quiet man, very reserved”. After recovering his health, Harry returned to his job at the Journal and at age 39 he married Doveton girl Elsie Grahame, who was just 20. They had two children, Murray, now deceased, and Barbara. Harry volunteered with the Dandenong Fire Brigade for 37 years. The family lived at the Dandenong Fire Station for many years as a stipend for Harry’s role as station master.
Long serving Journal editor Greg Dickson included Harold in his list of the “fine, loyal bunch who worked with me rather than for me”. Veteran reporter Marg Stork called Harold a “Father confessor” not only to the young apprentices a the Journal but also the new fire brigade recruits. When he died in 1963 staff lined up outside the old Scott Street office as Harold’s casket was driven past on the back of a fire truck. Harold loved the Journal and stands tall among a talented roll call of dedicated staff who have nurtured the paper through its 150 year history. For more on those people and events which made news in 2015 turn to page 6.
We all have at least one thing in common…. …we enjoy life at Saf fron Village You too can belong to our wonderful community. Brand new 2 & 3 bedroom units available. 1206839-DJ47-15
Ring 1300 669 523 for an appointment or just pop in for a chat and a guided tour. 8 Saffron Drive, Hallam SAFFRON GROVE
RETIREMENT VILLAGE
www.karidisretirementvillages.com.au