IF the stories heard at local Anzac Day services spark your curiosity this Monday, why not continue the learning at the Ballaarat Mechanics\u2019 Institute on Thursday, 28 April.<\/p>\n
Complementing the Heritage Reading Room\u2019s current exhibition Ballarat Anzacs<\/em>, World War One researcher and Arch of Victory-Avenue of Honour committee president Garry Snowden will make a presentation, How Ballarat Remembers its Anzacs<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cMost Ballarat people, if asked how our Anzacs are remembered, will first think of our Arch of Victory and Avenue of Honour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe last presentation in this Ballarat Anzacs series will look at some of Ballarat and district\u2019s lesser-known memorials and some of the stories prompted by them.\u201d<\/p>\n The city\u2019s many honour boards and some rarely noticed memorials, plaques and avenues will be highlighted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe memorials and plaques are interesting, but what I find more interesting are the human stories connected to the names they carry,\u201d Mr Snowden said.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of those stories relates to the heroism of a nurse who lived and trained in Ballarat but who does not have a tree in our Avenue, while another tells of two brothers who grew up in the Ballarat Orphanage who were killed in the same week at Pozieres in France.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Snowden will also explore what it was like for a family in Ballarat to receive the news that their loved ones had been wounded in action.<\/p>\n