by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
The Maryborough Airport was a bustling Royal Australian Airforce Air Station during World War II. Wireless air gunners and navigators were trained there to fly as crew members on bomber and women also served as part of the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force....
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
The Gallipoli to Armistice Memorial traces the birth of the Anzac legend, drawn from the personal perspectives in letters written home to loved ones by Wide Bay district men who fought on the front line, including Lieutenant Duncan Chapman, the first Anzac ashore at...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
Walkers Limited engineering works, founded in Maryborough in 1867 to manufacture heavy castings for sugar milling and railway locomotives and rolling stock, began building ships a decade later in 1877. The company went on to launch 36 ships into the Mary River for the...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 20, 2020
Built-in 1914, the Maryborough Drill Hall and Depot was the home of the Wide Bay Regiment, taking its name from the Wide Bay (and Burnett) Regiment formed in 1886. The regiment was built from earlier volunteer units that came into being soon after the Colony of...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 20, 2020
Funds to raise a statue of Duncan Chapman, the Maryborough man who was the first Anzac to step ashore at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, were raised by the community in late 2014. Former editor of the Fraser Coast Chronicle Nancy Bates met with then Fraser Coast mayor...
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