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Sunday, 9 August 2026

Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial 11th annual commemorative service held at Albert Park's Lemnos Square

 

The crowd who attended the 11th annual Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial service at Albert Park’s Lemnos Square in August 2026. Photo Jim Claven

The sun shone through the clouds of a Melbourne winter as the crowd gathered a Lemnos Square in Albert Park to mark the 11th annual Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial Service on Saturday 8th August 2026. The service is organized annually by Melbourne’s Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee (Committee) since it’s unveiling in 2015.

As a historian of Lemnos’ role in the Gallipoli campaign the weather reminded me of the writings of many of the soldiers and nurses who lived on Lemnos through the winter months. They would have been familiar with a bright sunny yet wintry day. An appropriate day to honour the Anzacs in Greece in 1915-16.
A beautiful Melbourne sky above our thriving Lemnos Square olive tree.

As with previous year’s events, this year’s annual service was well-attended, with attendees coming from near and far. It was again much appreciated that regular attendee George Ballas OAM had made his journey all the way from Geelong to take part.

Geelong’s George Ballas OAM with the author at the Memorial. Photo Jim Claven.

Some of the dignitaries seated for the commencement of the service. Photo Jim Claven.
 
The assembly gathered at 11am for service and included many diplomatic, political, local government, service and community representatives. Victorian Cabinet Secretary and local Albert Park MP Nina Taylor MP represented both the Victorian Premier and Veterans Minister, with David Davis and former nurse Georgie Crozier MP’s representing the Victorian Opposition. A regular attendee at the service, local Federal MP Josh Burns was an apology this year. Local government representatives included Port Philip Mayor Alex Makin and Cr Bryan Mears, along with Cr Vasilios Tsalkos representing the City of Darebin. Also attending was former Port Phillip Cr and Mayor Janet Bolitho.

Diplomatic representatives included Dimitris Tsilikis Deputy Consul General of the Hellenic Republic in Melbourne and Captain Jordan Ballisat of the New Zealand Defence Force representing the Consul General of New Zealand. The British Consulate was unable to attend but sent a wreath to be laid as part of the ceremony. Representatives of service and other related organizations included Major (Retired) Terry Kanelos OAM of the Hellenic RSL Sub-Branch, Steve Kyritsis OAM and Nikolaos Kydas representing the Australian Hellenic Memorial Foundation, former Victorian MP Bruce Mildenhall Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance Trustee and Ange Kenos former Executive Board Member of the RSL Victorian Branch. Natasha Spanos represented the Battle of Crete and Greece Commemorative Council. These representatives joined with Committee joint patron and Army nursing veteran Colonel (Retired) Jan McCarthy ARRC at the service.

The author (centre) with Committee supporters Steve Kyritsis OAM and Nikolaos Kydas of the Australian Hellenic Memorial Foundation. Photo Jim Claven.
Major (Retired) Terry Kanelos OAM and Ange Kenos lower and raise the flags during the service. Photo Jim Claven.
Major (Retired) Terry Kanelos OAM lays the wreath on behalf of the Hellenic RSL Sub Branch. Photo Jim Claven.

Nurses organizations represented included the Alfred Hospital Nurses League (the local hospital were former Lemnos nursing matron Grace Wilson took held the position of matron after the war) and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation. A number of veterans descendants were welcomed to the service, including Deb Stewart, grand-daughter of nurse Evelyn Hutt who served on Lemnos with the 3rd Australian General Hospital (3rd AGH) and Debra, the granddaughter of Anzac 2nd Lieutenant Allen Roark of the 21st Battalion who survived the attack on his transport ship Southland off Lemnos, came to Lemnos and Gallipoli in WW1.

Natasha Spanos representing the Battle of Crete and Greek Campaign Council and Mary Tsaganis of the Pammessinian Brotherhood Papaflessas with Committee President Lee Tarlamis. OAM MP. Photo Jim Claven.
Committee President Lee Tarlamis OAM MP with some fellow proud Lemnian-Australians who attended the service. Photo Jim Claven.
Committee member and joint Vice-President of the Greek Community of Melbourne & Victoria Vicki Kyritsis readies the many wreaths and commemorative gift books for the service. Photo Jim Claven.

The service saw the attendance and participation of many Greek community organizations. The Greek Community of Melbourne and Victoria were represented by joint Vice-President Vicki Kyritsis, Spiridoula Demetriou and Helen Hiotis. Other Greek community organisations represented included the Lemnian Community of Victoria, the Kondia Limnos Seniors Club, Team Agapes, the Imvrian Society of Melbourne, AHEPA Victoria, the Thessaloniki Association, the Cretan Brotherhood of Melbourne, the Pammessinian Brotherhood Papaflessas and the Society of Kalamata. These were joined by regular attendees Committee joint patron Lambis Englezos AM and renowned commemorative artist George Petrou OAM.

Some of the dignitaries seated for the commencement of the service. Photo Jim Claven.

School representatives are an important part of the Committee’s community engagement. The service was attended by a number of school representatives, including Vice Captain’s Spencer Holt and Scarlet Grieve of Albert Park College accompanied by Assistant Principal Duncan Box as well as SRC members of Irene Koutsovasilis , Connie Lekas and Chrisanthy Psaras accompanied by Deputy Principal Peter Dickinson.

Committee Member and former nurse Arlene Bennett opens proceedings as Master of Ceremonies. Photo Jim Claven.

The service was presided over by Master of Ceremonies for the day, Committee member and former nurse Arlene Bennett. The service commenced with the playing of the bagpipes by Committee Piper Stacey Harris in memory of Warrant Officer Archibald Monk of the 3rd AGH who piped the Australian nurses into their camp on Lemnos in August 1915.

Port Phillip Mayor Alex Makin, Albert Park MP Nina Taylor, Committee Piper Stacey Harris, Committee supporter Dr John Martino and Darebin Cr Vasilios Tsalkos at the Memorial. Photo Jim Claven.

Arlene opened proceedings with a traditional acknowledgement of country, recognising the various dignitaries in attendance and welcoming all to the service. In her opening address Arlene stated that “today we honour the thousands of soldiers and nurses who served on the island – the Hellenic people who welcomed them – and those who remain in the island’s war cemeteries”, adding that Lemnos brought together Hellenes and Australians, a connection that has continued over the decades. 

Committee supporters, regular attendees and proud Lemnian-Australians Ann and Damien Bendouli and Irinis Stafilis, representing Team Agapes and the Kondia Limnos Seniors Club, stand before the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial. Photo Jim Claven

She drew attention to Memorial that the Committee created and installed in 2015, designed by Australia’s renowned commemorative artist Peter Corlett OAM and comprising of two evocative bronze statues, one of a nurse and the other of a digger, on a stone plinth, carved with the names of the villages of Lemnos where the Anzacs walked. It is now a well-known commemorative landmark in Melbourne.

Albert Park College School Captain Scarlet Grieve reads Vera Brittain’s famous Lemnos poem. Photo Jim Claven.

A key part of the service is the reading of two iconic commemorative poems, one by nursing assistant Vera Brittain entitled The Sisters Buried on Lemnos written following Vera’s visit to Lemnos during the war and the other Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, the poems read by Albert Park College School Captain’s Scarlet Grieve and Spencer Holt.

Port Phillip Mayor Alex Makin addresses the assembly. Photo Jim Claven.

Addresses were delivered by Port Phillip Mayor Alex Makin who remarked on the community spirit embodied in both the Memorial itself and the service, stating that the City of Port Phillip is proud to be custodian for such an important Memorial. Melbourne’s Deputy Consul of the Hellenic Republic Dimitris Tsilikis spoke of the bond between Greece and Australia, forged in war and enhanced by the waves of migration to Australia. Underling the politically bipartisan support for the recognition of Lemnos in Gallipoli, addresses were made by Nina Taylor MP on behalf of the Victorian Government and the Hon David Davis MP on behalf of the Victorian Opposition.

Deputy Consul of the Hellenic Republic in Melbourne Dimitris Tsalikis delivers his address. Photo Jim Claven
Nina Taylor MP delivers her address representing both the Victorian Premier and Veterans Minister. Photo Jim Claven.
The Hon David Davis MP who delivered an address on behalf of the Leader of the Victorian Opposition. Photo Jim Claven.

This year’s keynote address was delivered by Committee joint patron and military nurse veteran Colonel (Retired) Jan McCarthy ARRC. Jan’s nursing military service included in Vietnam and her address covered the history and role of Australian Army nursing across the ages, from Lemnos to today, including peace-keeping operations. She highlighted the difficult tasks of military nurses, delivering vital medical care in often trying conditions. 

Committee joint patron Colonel (Retired) Jan McCarthy ARRC delivers her keynote address to the crowd. Photo Jim Claven

The service then proceeded to the formal wreath-laying service and the reading of the Ode. Many organizations took up the Committee’s suggestion to purchase a lay a copy of the Committee’s book in place of a wreath, the book then being gifted by the organization to a student, school or library to spread awareness of the Lemnos Gallipoli story. Some of those who lay wreaths or commemorative books are pictured below.

Captain Jordan Ballisat of the New Zealand Defence Force representing the New Zealand Consul in Melbourne salutes the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial. Photo Jim Claven.
Oakleigh Grammar students lay their wreath at the Memorial. Photo Jim Claven.
Alfred Hospital Nurses League representatives lay their wreath. Photo Jim Claven.
Eva Gotsis, representing the Cretan Brotherhood of Melbourne lays a commemorative book. Photo Jim Claven.
Angelos Haritou lays a wreath on behalf of Melbourne’s Thessaloniki Association. Photo Jim Claven.
George Xinos of the Imvrian Society of Melbourne lays a commemorative book. Photo Jim Claven.
Tim Valanidas lays a wreath on behalf of the Lemnian Community of Victoria. Photo Jim Claven.
Peter Patisteas OAM representing AHEPA delivers his respects at the Memorial. Photo Jim Claven.
Committee joint patron Colonel (Retired) Jan McCarthy ARRC delivers the Ode at the formal part of the service. Photo Jim Claven.

Arlene concluded the service by highlighting some of the Committee’s achievements in addition to the Memorial and the renaming of Lemnos Square including the publication of Jim Claven’s Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed book, the Australian Pier memorial on Lemnos and the Anzac the Greek Chapter WW2 documentary. 

She also mentioned the forthcoming installation of two of the Committee’s new memorial plaques on Lemnos – that to the Royal Australian Navy and to Lemnian Anzac Sapper Demetri Passa – as well as the realisation of the Australian Government-funded Lemnos Remembrance Trail next year, a project on which Committee historian was engaged as consultant historian. She expressed the Committee’s thanks to both honorary members Peter Sotiropoulos and Marie Giannakopoulos for their generosity in transporting the two plaques to Lemnos. She encouraged all to continue to spread awareness of the role of Lemnos in the Gallipoli campaign and to come to our event next year. 

She also thanked all Committee members and supporters for helping again with the service, including Jan McCarthy ARRC, Lee Tarlamis OAM MP, Jim Claven OAM, Vicki Kyritsis, Terry Kanelos OAM, Steve Kyritsis OAM and Ange Kenos.


Jim Claven OAM, LGCC Secretary

Monday, 29 June 2026

Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial annual commemorative event announced - All Welcome

 

The Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial unveiling, August 2015. Photo Anthony Leong

This year’s commemorative service at Albert Park’s Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial will be held on Saturday 8th August. The service will commence at 11am. All are welcome to attend.

This is the 11th annual commemorative service held by the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee at the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial since it was official unveiled in 2015.


The Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial nurse. Photo Jim Claven

The Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial was erected by the Committee in recognition of the service of Australian service personnel on Lemnos during the Gallipoli campaign and of the role of the Island and its people in the campaign. The Committee resolved to create the memorial as part of the Centenary of Anzac celebrations held in 2015. Following a major community fundraising effort, the Memorial was designed and created by renowned Australian commemorative sculptor Peter Corlett OAM, blending Hellenic and Anzac themes, combining the figures of an Australian nurse and weary digger on a sandstone plinth etched with the names of the villages on Lemnos visited by the Anzacs in 1915. A large crowd attended the unveiling, with representatives of government, diplomatic, service and community organizations as well as many individuals connected to Lemnos or to those who served there. The Memorial was gifted to the City of Port Phillip.

Many dignitaries have visited the Memorial since it was unveiled, including senior Hellenic military representatives, ambassadors, historians and archaeologists from Greece and many veterans’ families. Greece’s famous presidential guard – the Evzones – have also joined us for a special service at the Memorial during their visit to Australia.

The Evzones at the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial. Photo Jim Claven

Following its unveiling, on the proposal of the Committee and with the support of the City of Port Phillip, the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial site was official re-named Lemnos Square, giving the Memorial and its commemoration of the connection between Lemnos, Gallipoli and Port Phillip even greater significance.

The commemorative service will include official speeches, a wreath-laying/gift book laying ceremony, the national anthems of Greece and Australia and the reciting of the Ode. As with previous years, the service will include a wreath or book laying component. The Committee encourages those wishing to lay a wreath to consider purchasing one the Committee’s books – Jim Claven’s Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed – and laying that instead. The book can then be gifted to a school, Library or other suitable organization of your choice to further spread awareness of the role of Lemnos in the Gallipoli campaign.

The Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed book as a gift at the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial service. Photo Jim Claven

Committee President Lee Tarlamis OAM MP encourages all with an interest in honouring this important Hellenic connection to Australia’s Anzac story to attend. “All are welcome to attend our community service”, he said.

Those wishing to take part by laying a wreath or a gifted book should contact Lee Tarlamis OAM MP via email – lee.tarlamis@hotmail.com.

Jim Claven OAM, LGCC Secretary

Friday, 20 March 2026

Applications Open – 2026 Victorian Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize


Ari Burnu Cemetery at Gallipoli, just north of Anzac Cove, where Australia's Hellenic Anzac Private Peter Rados of the 3rd Battalion AIF is buried. Photo Jim Claven.

The Victorian Government has announced that applications are now open for the 2026 intake for the Victorian Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize. Applications for the Prize are now open and close at 5 pm on Monday 11 May.

The Prize is open to Victorian students in years 9 to 12. Students from all backgrounds, from across the state, are encouraged to apply. To enter, students are asked to reflect on the Anzac values and how they model them in their lives.

To enter the Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize competition, students must respond to the submission questions in the online application form via the Grants Gateway platform and provide both a signed Prize 2026 Parent/carer declaration consent form and Prize 2026 School representative statement and declaration form.

Twelve students will be selected to visit historically significant Anzac sites and learn first-hand about the people, places and sacrifices of those who served in war. Participation in the tour provides a unique cultural opportunity to deepen student’s knowledge of Australia’s wartime and peace-keeping history (especially the contribution of Victorian service people), as well as to connect with veterans and the ex-service community. Through the Prize, recipients could take part in a fully funded overseas study tour in September to learn about the Anzac legend. It also aims to help build students build confidence, leadership skills and a deeper understanding of the world.

This year’s Prize offers young Victorians the opportunity to join a fully funded study tour to significant war heritage sites in Türkiye. Previous overseas tours have included visits to the Anzac sites at Gallipoli as well as to those on the Island of Lemnos. Historian Jim Claven OAM has previously provided an introductory presentation on Lemnos & Gallipoli to prize recipients and their families for that year’s tour of Lemnos. Given the current international situation, decisions regarding the timing and location of the tour will be made with the safety of students and teacher chaperones as the highest priority.

Recipients will participate in an overseas study tour during the September school holidays. The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing covers all costs associated with accommodation, transport, insurance, activities and meals. Financial assistance is available on request for students who need support for any additional related costs.

Teachers, Principals, Parents or Carers are encouraged to pass this opportunity on to eligible secondary students they may know and who may be interested.

Given the strong links between Greece and Australia’s Anzac tradition across both world wars, this writer hopes that eligible Victorian students of Hellenic background or with veteran connections to the Anzac campaigns in Greece across both world wars will consider making an application for this important and valuable prize.

For more information or to apply for the 2026 Premier’s Spirit of Anzac Prize, visit https://www.vic.gov.au/spirit-anzac-prize-student-competition.

2018 Prize recipients visiting the newly unveiled Australia Pier Memorial at Mudros, Lemnos. Photo The Premiers Spirit of Anzac Prize FB page.

Jim Claven, LGCC Secretary



Monday, 24 February 2025

Event Announcement - First Adelaide Screening for Anzac The Greek Chapter - 4 May 2025

 


Our Committee is excited to announce the forthcoming screening of our new commemorative documentary Anzac The Greek Chapter in Adelaide.

The screening will be held at the Henley and Grange RSL at 2-5pm on 4 May as part of Adelaide's iconic annual Festival Hellenika. This Festival has been held over many years and celebrates the best of Hellenic culture. One of the filmmakers - historian Dr Peter Ewer - will be travelling specially from Melbourne to attend the screening and be available to discuss the film as the screening. 

All are welcome to attend. For more on the Festival, click here.

The film tells the story of the Anzacs in the Greek campaign of 1941 in their own words, drawing on an over 130 hour archive of veteran interviews created by renowned Greek campaign historian Dr Peter Ewer. They tell their story of their experiences of the campaign as they traversed over mainland Greece and on to Crete. Funded by the Australian Government and supported by our Committee, the film was created for the Committee by Peter and filmmaker John Irwin assisted by myself and Vicki Kyritsis on behalf of the Committee. The film was launched at the Greek Film Festival in Sydney and Melbourne last year to great praise. For more information on the documentary, please click here.

On behalf of our Committee, I would like to thank the Festival Hellenika and its President Dr Adoni Fotopoulos for their desire to bring this important documentary on one of the most important aspects of the Hellenic link to Australia's Anzac story to Adelaide. We are proud that it will be showcased as part of this great festival program. 

More screenings are planned, including in Greece - watch this space.

For more information on the Adelaide screening please contact Festival Hellenika President Dr Adoni Fotopoulos - adoni@dealwithit.com.au.

Jim Claven OAM, LGCC Secretary







Monday, 3 February 2025

Annual Lemnos Gallipoli Campaign Commemorations on Lemnos - 2025 Date Announced


East Mudros Military Cemetery. Photo Jim Claven

The Committee has received a communication from the Sub-Prefect of Lemnos and Agios Efstratios Mr. Apostolos Koutsogiannis, informing us of the date of this year's anniversary event to honour and remember the fallen of the Gallipoli Campaign.

The commemorative event is schedule to be held on Saturday 29th April 2025. 

A detailed schedule will be announced soon.

This post is made to assist all who may wish to attend this years coming event and so they can make their travel plans.

Jim Claven OAM Secretary LGCC


Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Melbourne Shrine’s Armistice of Mudros Commemorative Service - Thursday 31 Oct 2024 – All Welcome

 

HMS Agamemnon. Public Domain.

The annual commemoration of the Armistice of Mudros will be held on Thursday 31 October 2024. On this day in 1918 the First World War across the Balkans and Middle East came to an end with the coming into force of the Armistice signed between the representatives of the Entente powers and the Ottoman Empire in Lemnos' great Mudros Bay the day before.

This service was initiated by the Governors of Melbourne’s iconic Shrine of Remembrance on the proposal of the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee. The first service was held in 2018 and the following year was held in conjunction with the unveiling of the special Lemnos 1915-16 Plaque and Tree dedication in the grounds of the Shrine. It has been held every year since.


Attendees at the Armistice of Mudros commemorative service held in 2019. Photograph Jim Claven 2019.


The Lemnos 1915-16 Plaque at the foot of the Lemnos Tree, Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance. Photographed following the 2019 annual Armistice of Mudros service. Photograph Deb Stewart 2019.


The location of the Lemnos 1915-16 Plaque and Tree in the grounds of the Shrine. Photograph Jim Claven 2019.

This service commemorates the 106th anniversary of the Armistice of Mudros. Signed on 30 October 1918 and coming into effect at noon on 31 October 1918, the Armistice signaled the end of the First World War across the Eastern Mediterranean, from Syria to northern Greece, and including the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 and the Salonika campaign of 1915-1918.

The Armistice was signed by British Admiral Arthur Calthorpe, representing the Entente Powers (as the Allies were then known) and representatives of the Ottoman Empire. The signing took place aboard the Royal Navy warship HMS Agamemnon while anchored in Mudros Bay, Lemnos, amongst the large Allied naval fleet that assembled there for the purpose and to take part in the coming occupation of Constantinople and the Ottoman Empire. Australian and Hellenic warships were part of this fleet.


Where the Armistice of Mudros was signed 106 years ago this month - Mudros Bay, Lemnos. Photo Jim Claven 2018.

As many readers will know, the Aegean Island of Lemnos played an important role during the First World War. Only 50 kilometres from the Dardanelles, it operated as an advance base during the Gallipoli campaign, with major medical facilities for the treatment of the wounded and sick from the campaign on the Peninsula. Amongst the over 1,300 Allied service personnel buried in Lemnos’ war cemeteries are over 200 Australian and New Zealand war dead.

The order of service for the commemorative service is as follows:

11.15am - Attendees assemble at the Lemnos Tree (B37) before moving to the Shrine Sanctuary;

11.30 am - Attendees assemble in the Shrine Sanctuary;

11.45 am - Service commences; and,

12.15 pm - Service concludes.

Committee President, Mr Lee Tarlamis, OAM MP, thanked the Shrine and its staff, including Dale Capron, the Ceremonial Programs Manager, on behalf of the Committee for their support over the years in holding this important service.

“They have thereby ensured that the commemoration of the Armistice and the service and sacrifice of thousands continue to be remembered”, Mr Tarlamis said.

Lemnos Committee Secretary and historian Mr Jim Claven proposed the commemoration on behalf of the Committee as a result of his having researched the story of the Armistice of Mudros since 2013. He has had the story of the Armistice featured in publications from Australia to Greece and the UK, including a major feature in Remembrance, the Shrine magazine, as well as making public presentations on the Armistice at both the Shrine and at Mudros Bay on Lemmos in 2018.

Those readers seeking to find out more about the Armistice of Mudros can listen to the podcast of Jim Claven’s presentation at the Shrine in 2018 or read his article in Neos Kosmos, published on 2 October 2018, via the links below:

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/shrine-of-remembrance/armistice-of-mudros-jim-claven/

https://neoskosmos.com/en/2018/10/02/news/greece/melbourne-and-greece-to-commemorate-the-centenary-of-the-armistice-of-mudros/

Jim Claven, Secretary, Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee

Friday, 6 September 2024

Anzac The Greek Chapter - Premiere Screenings Announced for Melbourne and Sydney GFF

 

Great news that the long awaited public premiere of our Committee's latest project - the documentary Anzac The Greek Chapter - have been announced and bookings are now being taken.

This important new documentary created for the Committee by filmmakers Dr Peter Ewer and John Irwin features the Greek campaign veterans themselves re-telling their experiences of the campaign in 1941. For more information on the background and details of the documentary, click here.


The screenings will take place in Melbourne and Sydney as part of this year's Greek Film Festival in October. The screening in Melbourne will take place at 8.30pm on 17 October 2024 and in Sydney at 2.30pm on 19 October 2024

Each of these screenings will include a special Q&A session where well-known journalist (and Greek campaign veteran's son) Barrie Cassidy - the narrator of the documentary - will interview filmmaker and historian Dr Peter Ewer. Historian Jim Claven OAM - the Associate Producer of the documentary - will also take part in the Melbourne Q&A. 

There will be an additional screening in Melbourne at 4.30pm on 27 October. 2024.


Read an article on the coming Greek Film Festival which highlights our documentary by clicking here.

Tickets are free - but please consider making a donation

The tickets are free - the screenings being underwritten by the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee - however all attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the Committee when they book their ticket. This will contribute to the cost of the screening and allow the Committee to continue its important commemorative work.

Book Your Tickets Here

To book your ticket for the Melbourne screenings, please click here.

To book your ticket for the Sydney screening, please click here.

The Committee would like to place on record their appreciation for all the support from the Greek Film Festival organisers - the Greek Community of Melbourne & Victorian and the Greek Festival of Sydney. Without their support these public screenings would not have been possible. Special thanks to Jorge, Heidi, Antonia, Nia and Chryssa, 

Jim Claven OAM - Secretary Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee