BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Events Booking BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6afa43acc6f7b SUMMARY:Online Meeting with Rotarian Steve Larkins OAM - Anzac Day Theme DESCRIPTION: \;  \;  \; Online Meeting with Rotarian Stev e Larkins OAM - Anzac Day Theme  \;  \;  \;  \; Steve Larkins\, OAM is well known in the Rotary Club of Adelaide\, as is h is interest in military history\, as evidenced by his passion\, the Virtua l War Memorial\, and his activities as a Battlefield guide in France and B elgium. In the lead up to ANZAC Day 2020\, Steve\, as the focus on co mmemoration shifts from the Centenary of WW1 to WW2\, \; is going to p rovide an account of a \; particular event in 1944.  \; It is not generally realised but the single largest cohort of Australian loss es in WW2 occurred in Europe among RAAF personnel assigned under command o f the Royal Air Force. In 1998\, while leading a military Honour Guar d\, 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\, kill ing 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 sh ared the same base in England. \; \; \;Steve's research connec ts events that night with two local men who were among those who lost thei r lives - both of them died in the 'Langemark Lancaster'.  \; Join us at 1pm by going to the following link… https://zoom.us/j/60317 2155?pwd=MHVvZWtFM1UwT3dyUWZwUUtiZmtpdz09 Meeting ID: 603 172 155 Passwo rd: 033653 If you have any guests coming online please let us know with an email to secretary@adelaiderotary.com.au Some hints are in the handy “etiquette”document. See you online at 1pm. Don't forget to give t o the Virtual Community Bowl this week by clicking on... \; Community Projects Appeal  \; LOCATION:Online Meeting DTSTART:20200422T033000Z DTEND:20200422T043000Z DTSTAMP:20261115T234340Z ORGANIZER;CN=Rotary Club of Adelaide:MAILTO:webmanager@adelaiderotary.com.a u GEO:-34.915516;138.593926 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Online Meeting ;X-APPLE-RAD IUS=72;X-TITLE=Rotary Club of Adelaide Online:-34.915516;138.593926 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR