Our annual dinner and AGM, followed by a guest speaker, will be held at the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel on Tuesday 19 August. Our guest speaker will be Dr Bart Ziino from Deakin University on the topic:

Enlisting and Resisting: Why did Australian men decline to enlist in the Great War?

While more than three hundred thousand Australians volunteered to serve overseas during the Great War, even more declined to volunteer. Focusing on the responses of Collingwood, Abbotsford and Clifton Hill men to the federal government’s 1916 ‘Call to Arms’, this presentation will offer a rare insight into how men and their families negotiated the ever-increasing demands of the nation at war and concluded that their duty lay closer to home.

6:30 pm Dinner
7:45 pm AGM
8:00 pm Guest Speaker
Bookings are ESSENTIAL for both the dinner and the meeting which will be held in the dining room. All members have been emailed with details. Non-members are welcome, but please go to the Contact Us page to email your booking details. No payment is required. You will order and pay for your own meals and drinks at the bar.