Special video for Anzac Day 2024.

Hidden behind the Polly Woodside on South Wharf in inner Melbourne is a large anchor. This is Melbourne's own war memorial to the people who served in Australia's Merchant Navy through multiple conflicts.

Location here: https://monumentaustralia.org.au/them...

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My website: https://philipmallis.com
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SOURCES

'Men from the sea (Into battle series No.9)'. UK Ministery of Information. 1943. Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C18...

'Captured Nazi film Jervis Bay action'. Australian Department of Information. 5 November 1942. Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C18...

Green, Allan C, 'SS Iron Crown'. State Library of Victoria. ca.1942. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.