WIMMERA people will gain a window into the past through a new Horsham RSL exhibition.
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The organisation’s military history and heritage team has been working for months on the Century of Service event, which will commemorate the end of the First World War.
The week-long exhibition in November will honour those who gave their lives for Australia, and include memorabilia such as soldier service records.
Horsham RSL military history leader Jim Amos said the main aim of the exhibition was to commemorate the signing of the First World War Armistice on Remembrance Day in 1918, which ended the war.
He said the exhibition followed a similar one in 2015 to mark the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli.
“We had more than 560 school students visit that exhibition, and we have invited all the schools in the area to come to this one,” he said.
“It’s important that this history does not get lost and that everyone has an appreciation and understanding of our history.
“The exhibition will remember and give thanks to all those who made the supreme sacrifice and still lie in foreign lands, and those who have suffered and died on return to Australia.”
Mr Amos said the Horsham RSL sub-branch had received a $2909 grant through the federal government’s Armistice Centenary program for its work.
A Century of Service will run at the RSL in the week leading up to Remembrance Day, from 10am to 4pm each day. Admission is free.