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Trek Update 26 June 2016

Trek Update 26 June 2016-Harry Bould, Trinity Grammar School Kew.

Trek Update 25 June 2016

Harry Bould-Trinity Grammar Trek 2016 Update

Vale VX15131 S/SGT Ronald (Ron) Williamson

We say goodbye to another veteran of the Second World War

Vale VX 64649 PTE Athol S Geale

The last Tasmanian member of the 39th Battalion passes away.

Kokoda Historical Proud to be a Founding Member of the KTOA

Kokoda Trek Operators Association (KTOA) is the Association to trust when booking your Kokoda Trek!

Lark Force Wreath Laying at the Shrine of Remembrance

Annual 2/22 Lark Force Service at the Shrine of Remembrance

This day in history, the Japanese start bombing Rabaul.

Coastwatchers had been monitoring Japanese movements throughout a chain of islands to the north of Rabaul. This chain included Wuvulu Island, Ninigo, the Hermit Group, the Admiralties and New Britain itself. In late December 1941 and early January 1942, sightings of enemy aircraft had been reported across this monitoring chain. On 4 January 1942, the Japanese began bombing Rabaul.

Attend the official centenary commemorations at both Fromelles and Pozières.

Departing 13 July and returning 26 July, this fully inclusive tour will start in London before taking in all the major Australian battlefields on the Western Front.

Vale Peter Ryan MM

The author of one of the finest personal accounts of service during the Second World War, Peter Ryan MM has passed away in Melbourne at the age of 92.

Join David Howell at Bomana this Anzac Day.

Want to be at Bomana War Cemetery this Anzac for the Official Dawn Service? Want to see Kokoda, the Northern Beachheads, Milne Bay, Owers' Corner without having to trek? Join historian David Howell as we tour the important WWII battlefields of Papua.