Blackboy Hill book cover

Tuesday 28 October 2014

Diggers Depart: WA line-up of commemorative events


There will be a line-up of events rolling out this week due to the 100-year World War I anniversary. 

On 31 October 1914 the first Western Australian troops departed from Fremantle on two troops ships. Two days later they joined the rest of the convoy that departed from Albany. This began their journey to active service in World War One. One hundred years on we commemorate their departure.’

One of them is a free community event being held on the Greenmount Primary School oval (next to the Blackboy Hill training site), which will include a massive line-up of activities including re-enactments, talks, games for kids, live music, story-telling and memorabilia displays including period bell tents. THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER, 5PM – 7.30PM.

KSP Writers’ Centre will be holding a stall with pre-order forms for the Blackboy Hill book due out next year. A PowerPoint display will feature snippets of the book so far and many photographs donated by the public. Bring your kids along to our marquee and take them through the process of World War I enlistment, with an attestation paper and fitness test!

Please find details on this and other Anzac departure events here: http://www.anzac.dpc.wa.gov.au/Pages/WATroopDepartureEvent.aspx


Hope to see you there!