Leonie Moore will be our Guest Speaker following our meeting on 16th June at the Museum of the Riverina, Botanic Gardens site commencing at 7.30pm.Her topic will be Hill 60 which was the scene of desperate fighting in April and May 1915 between the Allied and German armies. The launch of an attack on 17th April 1915 began with the explosion of three mines which literally blew the top off the hill.
Hundreds of soldiers lost their lives on this small area of ground at that time and owing to subsequent fighting across the ground later in the war it was not possible to recover or identify many of them at the end of the war.
Tunneling and mining operations were carried out here by French, British, Australian and German soldiers. If tunnels caved in or were blown in by the enemy the soldiers who died underground were usually left where they died because of the difficulty of retrieving them. The remains of many soldiers, therefore, still rest in this site.
Don’t miss Leonie’s very interesting presentation.
