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ANZAC Centenary Walk in Heath St

24/4/2015

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The ANZAC Centenary Walk in Heath St was on a freezing cold, wet Sunday morning. Heath St is not pretty, but it has residents who are keen to be neighbourly and who wish to add to the street where they live. Chris Griffiths and Barb Mullen researched and wrote short biographies on the men of Heath St who went to WW1 and designed the walk to share their findings. In Heath St there were about 90 houses, 34 Heath St men went to war: 3 were killed in action; 3 were severely mentally impaired; 1 had his leg amputated above the knee; 26 were discharged medically unfit for duty; and 1 seemed to be unimpaired. The walk was attended by about 40 people, local children placed poppies at the fence of the homes of the soldiers. The event was recorded for posterity by Channel 9 News. Afterward the walk, the neighbours shared a lunch in the shelter of a large undercover garage in Heath St.
Barbara

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