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DEDICATION
The Creswick-Smeaton RSL website is dedicated to all those who have served in all conflicts and to those who made the supreme sacrifice to King, Queen and Country.

The Creswick-Smeaton RSL would like to thank the sponsors of this website. Our sponsors can be found at  "Contact Us"

Creswick-Smeaton RSL
Celebrating 100 years
19th March 1919 - 19th March 2019

Upcoming Events

 RSL Meetings - 2021
Last Wednesday of the month
NOTE new time:
1300 RSL Hall, Albert Street


27th January
24th February
31st March
28th April
26th May
30th June
28th July
25th August
29th September
27th October
24th November
​TBA December - Christmas Lunch

Recent Events

26th January 2021
Australia Day Breakfast

Australia Remembers - WW2 Veterans
Jack Sewell's presentation

Remembrance Day 
11th November 2020
Creswick Cenotaph 
PUBLIC EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

[Ceremonies are now limited to 10 people, accordingly only RSL members will attend in person. ]

Thanks for your understanding,
Creswick RSL

If you want to lay your own wreath, you can do so anytime after the service.

We would like to thank the Council gardeners for the planting of the Flanders Poppies for our Remembrance Day Service this year.

15th August 2020
75th Anniversary VJ Day
Creswick Cenotaph
10:56 Hepburn Shire Town Crier - Philip Greenbank  will read the meaning behind VJ DAy
​ 10:59 - Creswick Light Horse Bugler Suzi Koene will play "The Last Post" 11:00 - Two Minute Silent
11:02 Suzi Koene will play "Reveille"
11:03 - Hepburn Shire Town Crier - Philip Greenbank will read "Cry for Peace Around the World".

Mining Mud & Medals
​Book on the story of the Australian Tunnellers in WW1

Recent Web Updates

8th May 2020
VE Day - 75th Anniversary
7PM Creswick Cenotaph
Hepburn Shire Town Crier - Philip Greenbank  read the cry "Cry for Peace Around the World"  followed by a Minute Silence.
Creswick Light Horse Bugler Suzi Koene then played "The Last Post" 

25th April 2020
 6AM Dawn Service 
​11AM ANZAC Day Service

Kingston Honour Board relocation

Field of Crosses Memorial Gardens Project

Poems of the Era - 4, 5, &  6

Creswick Fire Brigade Honour Board

WW1 Enlistment Crosses updated
RSL Crosses updated
Family Memorial Crosses updated

General Letters & Newspaper Articles of WW1
​Creswick Enlistment Office

Bell Tolls for Soldiers
Tribute to the nurses 
Alfred Rachinger - WW1
 
Allan Russell - WW1
Frederick Whitbourn - WW1
Frederick Clifton - WW1
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George Petrie - WW1
Gilbert Joseph Brinsden - WW1

George Dean - WW1
​George Miller - WW1
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George Porter - WW1
Henry Lambert - WW1
Herbert Bush - WW1
James Greenbank - WW1
​James Nowlan - WW1
Joseph Skewes - WW1
Leslie Hartland - WW1
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Ormond Croy - WW1
Samuel "Gordon" Spittle - WW1
Stanley Treloar - WW1
William Lambert - WW1
Marie Lewis - WW2

26th January 2020
Australia Day Breakfast

Picture
Ode of Remembrance

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them