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Subj: [WIA-News] ANZAC 100 marks an epic journey to enlist
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ANZAC 100 marks an epic journey to enlist

Date : 13 / 02 / 2015

Author : Jim Linton - VK3PC

The commemorative WIA callsign VI8ANZAC will soon be on air thanks to 
Darwin Amateur Radio Club, which is covering the Albert Chalmers Borella 
journey re-enactment. 
The Victorian was in the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade, 
before the lure of a new life and grant of government land saw him move 
to the Northern Territory.

After a time, farming proved unsuccessful, leading him to be a chef on 
a telegraph maintenance site near Tennant Creek. 
He wanted to enlist in World War I. Travelling by foot, horseback and 
train the 33 year old left Tennant Creek for Darwin, found it did not 
have a sign-up point, so continued to Townsville in Queensland by boat 
for enlistment.

Albert Borella (pictured) was posted to the 26th Battalion of the 
First Australian Imperial Force. At Gallipoli he served for two months. 
Then he was sent to the Western Front in France and Belgium. 
Albert Borella was wounded in battle, decorated with the Military Medal, 
mentioned by Winston Churchill in military dispatches, 
and finally received for valour in combat - the Victoria Cross. 
He is the only VC from the Northern Territory. During World War II he 
ran prisoner-of-war camps in Australia. As the nation re-traces that 
remarkable journey to enlist, the Darwin Amateur Radio Club has VI8ANZAC 
on air from February 20 to March 3.

Please read the requirements including on-line logging, eQSLing and a 
duration of 1-week for each commemorative ANZAC 100 callsign. 
These are spelled out on the WIA website 
Link  http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/anzaccentenary/about/

		(Sourced from the WIA Website)

http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2015/20150213-1/index.php

	(Posted to the Packet Radio Network courtesy Tony VK7AX)
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