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Tuesday, 13 November, 2018
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Covering the Dandenongs in the Yarra Ranges & Cardinia Shires
Remembrance Day
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Poppies for peace By Casey Neill A poppy-adorned Puffing Billy was the star of the show at Emerald’s Remembrance Day service. Thousands of people gathered at the Memorial Avenue cenotaph on Sunday 11 November, and at the neighbouring Puffing Billy station. Emerald RSL received 20,000 poppies from all over Australia to mark 100 years since the Armistice brought World War I to a close, ending four years of conflict. That’s 1560 days in all, and 11,000 lives were lost each day. The knitted, crocheted and sewn poppies also sprung up around the town, on the RSL sub-branch and at Anzac Place. The poppy became as a symbol of remembrance after Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae penned poem In Flanders Fields about the flowers growing on battle-scared fields in Ypres. “Here in Emerald in our little community, 34 of our men were killed and 66 thankfully returned to their mothers and
Dozens of people welcomed the poppycovered Puffing Billy to the station.
fathers,” project organiser Peter Maloney said. The Anzac Walk unveiled in 2015 paid tribute to 32 men killed in action, but researchers have since identified two more. “We’ll have to change Anzac Walk,” Mr Maloney said. He said research was continuing into the returned servicemen. “Puffing Billy took our men to war all those years ago,” he said. One hundred years later, it carried 34 scouts and girl guides holding poppy-framed photos of the 34 men who didn’t return. Descendants of two men who did return to the area, Graeme Legge and June Styling, carried honour boards with the names of the 66 who came home. Homing pigeons were used extensively during war, carrying messages in leg canisters with remarkable reliability and dedication. Crowds watched 34 fly into the sky. See page 8 for more from Emerald.
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It is understood the police officer was not on duty at the time. The tragedy has rocked the tight-knit police community in the Dandenong Ranges and a colleague said it was a sad loss to the Belgrave and wider policing family. If any current or former police employees
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Police members in the Dandenongs are mourning the loss of a close friend and colleague from the Belgrave Police Station. Police are investigating and preparing a report for the coroner following the death of the
leading senior constable at the Olinda Police Station on the morning of Friday 9 November. The death is not being treated as suspicious. The Olinda station was closed over the weekend, following the discovery, but reopened on Monday 12 November.
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