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.
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Creswick-Smeaton RSL
Celebrating 100 years
19th March 1919 - 19th March 2019
Due to the CoronaVirus, all RSL activities for ANZAC Day have been cancelled.
This includes:
The Dawn Service, Gunfire Breakfast, ANZAC Day Service, and the ANZAC Appeal.
Members of the public with their own wreath, placed at the Cenotaph throughout ANZAC Day.
The Field of Crosses were on display for those wishing to pay their respects.
Upcoming Events
15th August 2020
75th Anniversary VJ Day
Creswick Cenotaph
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".

8:18PM Creswick Cenotaph 
Creswick Light Horse Bugler Suzi Koene will play "Sunset" followed by Hepburn Shire Town Crier - Philip Greenbank reading  "Cry for Peace Around the World"  
 RSL Meetings - 2020
Last Wednesday of the month
12:00 RSL Hall, Albert Street

Due to COVID-19, all monthly meetings from March have been cancelled until further notice
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26th February
25th March - Cancelled
29th April - Cancelled
27th May - Cancelled
24th June - Cancelled
29th July - TBA
26th August
30th September
28th October
25th November 
​December - Christmas Lunch - TBA
Recent Events
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
Mining Mud & Medals
​Book on the story of the Australian Tunnellers in WW1
Recent Web Updates
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
​George Petrie - WW1
Gilbert Joseph Brinsden - WW1
George Dean - WW1
​George Miller - WW1
​George Porter - WW1
Henry Lambert - WW1
Herbert Bush - WW1
James Greenbank - WW1
​James Nowlan - WW1
Joseph Skewes - WW1
Leslie Hartland - WW1
​Ormond Croy - WW1
Samuel "Gordon" Spittle - WW1
Stanley Treloar - WW1
William Lambert - WW1
Marie Lewis - WW2
26th January 2020
Australia Day Breakfast
11th November 2019
Remembrance Day Service
10:45am Creswick Cenotaph,
​Albert St
25th August 2019
"Creswick's War" Book Launch
Author -Neil Leckie
25th April 2019 - ANZAC Day

- Dawn Service
- Gunfire Breakfast - Creswick Town Hall.
Services
- Kingston Avenue of Honour Memorial.
 - Soldier’s Section. Creswick Cemetery.
– Memorial Stones, RSL Hall, 
– ANZAC march
– Creswick Remembrance Service
16th March 2019
Creswick-Smeaton RSL Sub-Branch Centenary
26th January 2019
Creswick Australia Day Breakfast
11th November 2018
​Battle's O'ver
What ANZAC day means to me - Mia Wallis
​Heroes of Long Tan - Poem