About
Lilydale RSL
We operate entirely on a voluntary basis and work closely with RSL Victoria and our community to ensure the wellbeing of our veteran community and the legacy they have left us.
Lilydale RSL Sub-Branch is very active within the Yarra Ranges community and is dedicated to ensuring the welfare, wellbeing and quality of life of veterans and their dependants.
Veteran Welfare
Management of volunteers, inventory and collection of funds
Become a Member
The RSL offers two main forms of membership, Service and Affiliate memberships.
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LILYDALE RSL
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Bill Dobson
President
Terry Hickey
Vice President
Anthony McAleer OAM
Secretary
John O'Donoghue
Treasurer
Lilydale RSL Books
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$35.00NEW RELEASEThe Vietnam War is considered to be an emotional touchstone for Australian society. This was also mirrored in the sixteen townships, villages and suburbs that made up the former Shire of Lillydale in Victoria’s outer-east. Here, in this book, is the first real assessment of exactly what that conflict represented and meant to those who lived there. Buy Now on eBay -
$35.00NEW RELEASEAs the Second World War came to an end in 1945, the hopes of a lasting world peace were soon dashed as defeated Fascist governments were quickly replaced by the rise of Communist aggression and the heralding in of a Cold War that threatened a third world war and the use of nuclear weapons. Buy Now on eBay -
$35.00Fifty years after they served Australia in the Vietnam War, sixteen veterans of that conflict who live in the Yarra Valley sat down with the Mt Evelyn RSL’s historian and revealed, some for the first time, their experiences before, during and after the war. -
$25.00On December 8th, 1915 there were 38,500 Australian troops occupying trenches on Gallipoli, facing a larger Turkish force of some 80,000. Twelve days later they had all been evacuated from the Peninsula without the loss of a man and without the enemy knowing. In hindsight their cunning escape had become the only success of the whole Gallipoli campaign. -
$20.00A week before he was due to go overseas with the 21st Battalion in 1915, nineteen year old Private James Drummond Burns of Lilydale sat down and wrote a poem entitled ‘For England’ for his old school magazine ‘The Scotch Collegian’. Buy Now on eBay -
$20.00On February 19th, 1915, seventeen year old Jim Baddeley from Smythesdale in country Victoria forged his mother’s signage on his enlistment papers and joined the AIF underage to fight for the Mother country. Buy Now on eBay
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What MEMBERS
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We are self-funded association of veterans. There is no charge for any of our service and membership.
Terence M. Witzel
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We are self-funded association of veterans. There is no charge for any of our service and membership.
Sidney W. Yarber
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We are self-funded association of veterans. There is no charge for any of our service and membership.
Kayla H. Seaman
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