Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Special video for Anzac Day 2024.
Hidden behind the Polly Woodside on South Wharf in inner Melbourne is a large anchor. This is Melbourne's own war memorial to the people who served in Australia's Merchant Navy through multiple conflicts.
Location here: https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/multiple/display/33469-merchant-navy-memorial/
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My website: philipmallis.com
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SOURCES
'Men from the sea (Into battle series No.9)'. UK Ministery of Information. 1943. Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C189104
'Captured Nazi film Jervis Bay action'. Australian Department of Information. 5 November 1942. Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C188845
Green, Allan C, 'SS Iron Crown'. State Library of Victoria. ca.1942. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS_Iron_Crown.jpg
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
Special video for Anzac Day 2024.
Hidden behind the Polly Woodside on South Wharf in inner Melbourne is a large anchor. This is Melbourne's own war memorial to the people who served in Australia's Merchant Navy through multiple conflicts.
Location here: https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/conflict/multiple/display/33469-merchant-navy-memorial/
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My website: philipmallis.com
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SOURCES
'Men from the sea (Into battle series No.9)'. UK Ministery of Information. 1943. Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C189104
'Captured Nazi film Jervis Bay action'. Australian Department of Information. 5 November 1942. Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C188845
Green, Allan C, 'SS Iron Crown'. State Library of Victoria. ca.1942. Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS_Iron_Crown.jpg
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
