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Opening times are as follows:-
Our opening days are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. (NO Saturday or Monday or Tuesday’s at this time.)
Our normal hours are 10:00 am – 3:00 pm.
PLEASE NOTE Our last entry is at 1:00 pm.
Allow approximately 2 hours for a visit
Photo ID required for entrance
Wheelchair access available
ACROD parking allowed on-site
Adults $15
Seniors/Concession $10
Child (6-17) $10
Family Group (2+3) $35
For School and other group tours
refer to details in Bookings
Next week at the museum, still some spots available on selected tours
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It's International Cat Day
Throughout the trench systems that ran along the Western Front of WWI, there were an estimated 500,000 cats. Primarily, they were there to cull the rodent population but also comforted the soldiers.
The cats also served as mascots for many of the units fighting in the trenches and could freely cross no man's land. During the famous Christmas Truce of 1914, many soldiers wished for peace and friendship between the troops of warring factions. So, they would tie messages around the collars of some free-roaming kitties, and the message would get across to the enemy fortifications.
This moving image (courtesy of the Australian War Memorial) shows a cat sitting in the opening of a sandbagged dugout. The cat, probably a regimental mascot, looks up expectantly at the approach of an unidentified soldier. The image was taken in 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.
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Charles Welsey Brick (pictured on the left) was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England and arrived as an assisted migrant. Before enlistment in September 1914, he was employed as an Orderly at the Old Men's Home, Claremont. He embarked on HMAT A55 Kyarra on December 14th 1914 and returned on June 4th 1919.
Charles returned to his pre-war job and lived at The Old Men's home with his wife, Lily Elizabeth, who died in 1931. They had a daughter Patricia born in 1922. Charles retired to Rolystone and died in 1954.
HMAT Kyarra (A55) was built in 1903 for the Australian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The Kyarra was requisitioned and converted into a hospital ship in November 1914. In March 1915, the Kyarra was converted into a troop transport. After being released from Commonwealth control in January 1918, the Kyarra was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the English Channel near Swanage on May 26th 1918.
Formed in Western Australia in August 1914, the initial staff departed Fremantle aboard HMAT A55 Kyarra on December 4th 1914.
With 'the rush of sick' from Gallipoli, an 'eleventh-hour' effort was made to develop Lemnos as an intermediate military medical base. As part of that reorganisation, the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital was moved to West Mudros, landing on August 4th.
By August 13th, it was treating 763 patients. By September/October 1915, the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital occupied sixty large marquee tents and had 1,200 beds and 25 nursing sisters.
When the Peninsula was evacuated, the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital was transferred to Tel-el Kebir in the Canal Zone. In August 1916, the hospital moved to Port Said, where it provided general medical services until November 19th 1916, when it moved to Mahamdrya, remaining there until it relocated again to El Arish on March 10th 1917. Its following location was Moascar, arriving there on August 27th 1917. Here it received VD patients as well as casualties and general illnesses. On June 15th 1919, 1 officer and 71 other ranks, the last of the 2nd Stationary Hospital staff in Egypt, entrained for Kantara, where they boarded SS Essex for Australia.
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At 5:30pm on 6 August 1915, the attack on Lone Pine began. Lone Pine was planned as a diversion to keep Turkish reserves from the main Allied invasion, an attempt to break out of the Anzac perimeter and capture the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
The Australians' objectives were to take and hold the Turkish line and draw Turkish reserves away from the action on the Sari Bair range.
Once the Australians reached the Ottoman line, they found timber roofs covered many of the trenches, so they fired, bombed and bayoneted from above before making their way inside the trenches.
From nightfall on 6 August to 9 August, fierce fighting occurred underground in a complex maze of Ottoman tunnels.
Australian Engineers dug a safe passage across no-man's-land so reinforcements could enter the captured positions without being exposed to enemy fire.
The Turks tried to eject the attacking force, but the Australians held on.
When the battle was over, some 2300 men were killed or wounded across six Australian battalions, and over 6000 Turks had been killed or wounded.
Seven Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest British Empire bravery decoration from the action at Lone Pine. It was the highest number ever awarded to an Australian division for one action.
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Australian troops in a captured Ottoman trench at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915
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