Online Meeting with Rotarian Steve Larkins OAM - Anzac Day Theme
Online Meeting with Rotarian Steve Larkins OAM - Anzac Day Theme
Steve Larkins, OAM is well known in the Rotary Club of Adelaide, as is his interest in military history, as evidenced by his passion, the Virtual War Memorial, and his activities as a Battlefield guide in France and Belgium.
In the lead up to ANZAC Day 2020, Steve, as the focus on commemoration shifts from the Centenary of WW1 to WW2, is going to provide an account of a particular event in 1944.
It is not generally realised but the single largest cohort of Australian losses in WW2 occurred in Europe among RAAF personnel assigned under command of the Royal Air Force.
In 1998, while leading a military Honour Guard, Steve met a local Belgian man named Conrad Dumoulin. Conrad had shown Steve a photo of a Lancaster bomber that had come down in pieces in his grandfather's brickworks at Langemark, near Ieper in May 1944, killing all of the seven man crew. Conrad told Steve that it was an Australian Lancaster, although the wreckage was nearly unrecognisable. Steve has recently researched the raid on the night of 10/11 May 1944 that took an inordinately heavy toll of two RAAF units that shared the same base in England. Steve's research connects events that night with two local men who were among those who lost their lives - both of them died in the 'Langemark Lancaster'.
Join us at 1pm by going to the following link…
https://zoom.us/j/603172155?pwd=MHVvZWtFM1UwT3dyUWZwUUtiZmtpdz09
Meeting ID: 603 172 155 Password: 033653
If you have any guests coming online please let us know with an email to
Some hints are in the handy “etiquette”document.
See you online at 1pm.
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Event Information
| Event Date | 22-04-2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
| Registered | 1 |
| Available Place | 119 |
| Individual Price | Use the Link Below to Join |
| Location | Rotary Club of Adelaide Online |
| Attachment | etiquette-when-using-zoom-communications.pdf |
