Past Events
2025 AGM - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Tuesday Nov 11, 2025, 5:00 pm
TAKE NOTICE that a General Meeting of the Association will be held online 5.00 pm on Tuesday 11th of November 2025.
This is a members only event.
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View...2025 ANZAC Day Lunch
Date: Friday Apr 25, 2025, 1:30 pm
After the ANZAC Day March, the Pipeclay Club invite members and guests to come together to mark this solemn day of remembrance.
Ticket includes 2-course plated lunch. Drinks at bar prices.
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View...HMAS Voyager Commemoration Service
Date: Monday Feb 10, 2025, 11:00 am
This service recognises the ships that have borne the name HMAS Voyager, and those who have served on them.
Address will be delivered by CAPT Paul Scott RAN
Admission is free.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
View...2024 AGM - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Monday Nov 25, 2024, 5:00 pm
TAKE NOTICE that a General Meeting of the Association will be held online 5.00 pm on Monday 25th of November 2024.
This is a members only event.
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View...2024 Monash Melbourne Commemorative Service
Date: Thursday Aug 8, 2024, 9:45 am
The Spirit of Australia Foundation
2024 Monash Commemorative Service
The Legislative Assembly Chamber, Parliament House Melbourne
Thursday 8th of August 2024 9:45 AM to 12:00 PM
Registration required.
View...Battle of Amiens Commemoration at the Shrine - 106th Anniversary
Date: Thursday Aug 8, 2024, 7:45 am
106th Anniversary of 0808 - The Battle of Amiens
The Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne
Thursday 8th of August 2024 7:45 AM to 9:00 AM
All welcome, no registration required.
View...2024 Monash Medal Luncheon
Date: Wednesday Aug 7, 2024, 12:30 pm
Hosted by Rotary Melbourne
2024 Monash Medal Luncheon
Presentation of the 2024 Monash Medal to The Hon. Josh Frydenberg.
No 35 Restaurant, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins 25 Collins St Melbourne
Wednesday 7th of August 2024 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Luncheon or Zoom registrations available.
Registration required.
View...2024 ANZAC Day Lunch
Date: Thursday Apr 25, 2024, 1:30 pm
After the ANZAC Day March, the Pipeclay Club invite members and guests to come together to mark this solemn day of remembrance.
Special guest speaker Brigadier Michael Annett CSC, President of the Defence Reserves Association will speak on "The Defence Reserve Strategic Review - a perspective"
Ticket includes 2 course plated lunch. Drinks at bar prices.
View...Webinar: The Yachties: Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45. - Speaker: Janet Roberts Billett
Date: Wednesday Dec 6, 2023, 5:00 pm
Speaker: Janet Roberts Billett
CANCELLED - to be re-scheduled ***
Jan Roberts-Billett will discuss her new book.
This book is a unique saga of exceptional valour of Australian volunteers who served in World War II as officers in the Royal Navy. Their recruitment, training and war service is detailed and was as diverse as it was dangerous.
As a cohort, they are probably the most highly decorated Australian servicemen.
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View...2023 Spirit of Australia Foundation Melbourne Luncheon
Date: Friday Aug 11, 2023, 12:30 pm
Join us after the General Sir John Monash Service for luncheon and a speaker at No. 35 Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne.
View...2023 Monash Melbourne Commemorative Service
Date: Friday Aug 11, 2023, 10:00 am
The Spirit of Australia Foundation 2023 Monash Commemorative Service will be held Friday 11 August in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament.
View...Battle of Amiens Commemoration at the Shrine - 105th Anniversary
Date: Tuesday Aug 8, 2023, 7:45 am
105th Anniversary of 0808 - The Battle of Amiens. Gather at the Shrine of Remembrance at 07:45 am. All welcome, no registration required.
View...2023 DRA Luncheon
Date: Wednesday Jun 7, 2023, 12:00 pm
The DRA Victorian President and Committee members request the pleasure of your company at the Reservists Reunion Lunch.
Originally celebrating Victoria’s Third Division 1916 – 1991, this lunch continues to be a unique opportunity for past and present Reservists to keep in touch with old friends.
View...The Yachties Book Launch
Date: Tuesday Jun 6, 2023, 5:00 pm
The Yachties by Janet Roberts Billett is the largely unknown story of exceptional valour of a group of Australian volunteers recruited through the Dominion Yachtsmen Scheme to be trained as officers in the Royal Navy during World War II.
To be launched by Commodore Greg Yorke AM CSC, Senior Naval Officer Victoria on 6 June, 2023 (79th anniversary of D-Day).
View...2022 AGM - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Friday Nov 11, 2022, 5:00 pm
TAKE NOTICE that a General Meeting of the Association will be held online 5.00 pm on Friday 11th of November 2022.
This is a members only event.
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View...2022 Spirit of Australia Foundation Melbourne Luncheon
Date: Friday Aug 12, 2022, 12:30 pm
Join us after the General Sir John Monash Service for luncheon and a speaker at No. 35 Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne.
View...2022 Monash Melbourne Commemorative Service
Date: Friday Aug 12, 2022, 10:00 am
The Spirit of Australia Foundation 2022 Monash Commemorative Service will be held Friday 12 August in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament.
View...Battle of Amiens Commemoration at the Shrine - 104th Anniversary
Date: Monday Aug 8, 2022, 7:45 am
104th Anniversary of 0808 - The Battle of Amiens. Gather at the Shrine of Remembrance at 07:45 am. All welcome, no registration required.
View...‘Courage And Compassion: A Stretcher-Bearer’s Journey From No-Man’s Land And Beyond’ - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Wednesday Jun 22, 2022, 7:00 pm
Nelson Ferguson, from Ballarat, was a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front in France in World War I. He survived the dangers of stretcher-bearing in some of Australia’s most horrific battles: the Somme, Bullecourt, Ypres and Villers-Bretonneux.
But in April 1918, at Villers-Bretonneux, he was severely gassed. His eyes were traumatised, his lungs damaged.
Ferguson returned to Australia and despite the damage to his eyes, took-up a position as a disabled art teacher at the Working Men’s College, Melbourne (now RMIT).
This story will stir your soul.
View...2022 DRA Luncheon
Date: Wednesday Jun 1, 2022, 12:00 pm
The DRA Victorian President and Committee members request the pleasure of your company at the Reservists Reunion Lunch.
Originally celebrating Victoria’s Third Division 1916 – 1991, this lunch continues to be a unique opportunity for past and present Reservists to keep in touch with old friends.
View...2022 ANZAC Day Lunch
Date: Monday Apr 25, 2022, 1:30 pm
After the ANZAC Day March, the Pipeclay Club invite members and guests to come together to mark this solemn day of remembrance.
Guest speaker, Dr Ross Bastiaan AM RFD, will address the question of "Will We Remember Them?"
View...Christmas 2021 Luncheon
Date: Tuesday Dec 7, 2021, 12:00 pm
Our annual traditional Pipeclay Christmas lunch.
2 course meal followed by tea or coffee.
Beverages at bar prices.
2021 AGM - ONLINE ONLY
Date: Thursday Nov 11, 2021, 4:30 pm
TAKE NOTICE that a General Meeting of the Association will be held online 4.30 pm on Thursday 11th of November 2021.
This is a members only event.
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View...Vietnam Veterans 2022 Luncheon (TBC)
Date: Wednesday Aug 18, 2021, 12:00 pm
On the 53rd anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, this very special lunch honours those who served in Vietnam, the longest wartime conflict in Australia's history.
Guest of honour Ross Smith was a lieutenant colonel in the war and a former member of parliament in Victoria.
View...Leadership in Crisis: Blamey at War - ONLINE ONLY - Speaker: Brent Taylor
Date: Monday Aug 16, 2021, 5:30 pm
Speaker: Brent Taylor
General Blamey is a controversial figure in Australian military history. This presentation describes a consummate military leader at the top of his game fighting for his country in a time of deep crisis.
‘Never trust foreign generals with the Diggers’ was Blamey’s cast iron rule, which he learnt the hard way on the killing fields of World War I. As Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Military Forces in World War II, by applying this rule and through great leadership, he built up a winning world-class military system. He kept control of his forces and demanded his generals always ‘keep the casualties low’. As a result, the Diggers had remarkably low casualty rates while achieving spectacular results.
Don't miss this fascinating presentation by author Brent D Taylor.
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