R.S.L. Military MuseumBendigo Victoria
The display in the main hall has been provided by the Passchendaele Barracks Military Historical Society. Formed in 1978 by Officers and NCO'S of the 15th Transport Squadron with the aim to regain and restore the history and heritage of all past and present traits that have occupied the Passchendaele Barracks, which over the year had been lost to Bendigo. Known to all as the Mollison Street Drill Hall this building saw the enlistment of troops to both World Wars. Where hundreds enlisted and were medically passed to serve their country. The home of the famous 38th Infantry Battalion.
With the influx of a considerable amount of memorabilia in 1986 it was agreed that a formal and legal Trust should be formed and Trustee's be appointed to be responsible for the memorabilia. The Deed of Trust was written by a firm of solicitors and formally adopted in late 1987.
Included in this Trust document was the transfer for an amount of memorabilia which was Mess property.
The aims and objects of the Passchendaele Barracks Trust are briefly to:
a, To provide for the proper and efficient ongoing of the trust;
b, To perpetrate the spirit and traditions of Units past, present and future occupying Passchendaele Barracks, Bendigo in the State of Victoria,
c, To preserve, maintain and retain in Bendigo and its environs for prosperity any Militaty Memorabilia relating to the Units past, present and future of Bendigo area and Passchendaele Barracks.
d, To ensure that the property and assets of the Trust remains in Bendigo or the environs of Bendigo and to be available to the citizens of Bendigo as a part of the history and heritage of the area. |
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