The KPVCVBG honoured a fallen serviceman with a grave rededication ceremony on 26th July 2024, for the late Corporal Cecil Lumsden.  Lumsden was a WWI veteran who had been wounded in action.  He had lain in an unmarked grave in Nowra Cemetery since his death in 1951. Grahame Morrison worked tirelessly

Veterans’ Health Week,18th October 2024,Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra, NSW.The KPVCVBG conducted a number of activities during the 2024 DVA Veterans’ Health Week. Of note was a combined activity with the members and partners from Nowra Legacy and other key attendees, supporting the local veteran community. The event was led

USS Frank E Evans commemoration,3rd June 2024,Longreach, near Nowra, NSW.The KPVCVBG conducted a memorial service for the loss of the destroyer USS Frank E Evans, cut in half by the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne, in the South China Sea, on the night of 2/3 June 1969.The eulogy was presented by

HMAS Voyager commemoration,10th February 2024,Longreach, near Nowra, NSW.Rhonda Jones and June Ackerley, daughters of the late Chief Petty Officer Coxwain Jonathan Rogers, George Cross (HMAS Voyager), with George Pratt GC and historian and author Craig Blanch.They are pictured with one of the surviving life rings from HMAS Voyager (on loan

14 August 2023A message from Rick Meehan OAM JP, Chairman, Keith Payne VC Veterans’ Benefit Group.Well, Digger Day 2023 on 23 July is done and dusted for another year. The sun was shining, the field and grounds at Shoalhaven Rugby Park in Nowra were looking immaculate and there was a fantastic

A message from Rick Meehan OAM JP, Chairman, Keith Payne VC Veterans Benefit Group (KPVCVBG)The KPVCVBG was established in 2018, under the guidance of Australia’s oldest Victoria Cross (VC) recipient, Mr Keith Payne VC AM DSC (US) SS (US). The work of the Group is to continue the many years