Polygon Wood Re-Enactment

Crowd at re-enactment Sept 1, 2017 Martin Place

The 18th Battalion AIF Living History Group re-enacted the moment when A.V.L. Hull hoisted the Australian flag on a German Pillbox. Australia’s Great Day Re-enactment was well attended on 1 September, 2017, almost 100 years after the original event on 20 September, 1917. Eleven of Stid’s nieces and nephews, as well as seventeen of his great nieces and nephews and five great great nieces and nephews cheered on the re-enactment.

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