This year’s theme focuses our thoughts on the ‘end of the Great War’.
We have chosen Fremantle Oval as a fitting place to hold the event as the very first returned soldiers were brought to the oval to be feted and cheered by a grateful and relieved Fremantle public.
PRESENTERS:
Dr Leigh Straw : The Suffering Begins: Returned Soldiers, families and the aftermath of World War 1 in Western Australia
Allan Graham: The Fremantle hotel trade during World War One
Baden Pratt: Hell for Leather: North Fremantle Football club and the Great War
Dr Michelle McKeough: Repatriation: A Debt of Gratitude
WHERE: Fremantle Library, Fremantle Oval, 70 Parry Street, Fremantle
WHEN: Sunday 28th October, 2018
TIME: 1 – 5 pm
ADMISSION: $15 members, $20 non-members (join on the day for members’ prices)
Afternoon Tea included. RSVP’s essential: please email the Secretary, secretary.fhs@gmail.com by 23 October.
Image courtesy, Fremantle History Centre – Image No. LH001494H
Fremantle History Society 