A school group from Athens last week visited Melbourne’s Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial and Shrine of Remembrance, according to the following report by neoskosmos.com:
The 22 year 9 students from the 1st Junior High School Voula Athens are visiting Melbourne this week and their sister-school Alphington Grammar. They were escorted by three members of the teaching staff – Principal Dr Maria Kaskantami, the Vice-Principal and Information Technology Teacher Ioanna Gardiki and Angeliki Methodiou, the English Language Teacher. They are being assisted in their visit to Melbourne by Ms Christina Despoteris, Vice-President of the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee.
They were welcomed at the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial in Albert Park by Mr Lee Tarlamis, President of the Committee and a number of Committee members, including Anzac veteran descendent Ms Deb Stewart and Mr Angelo Yannacaros. Lee explained how the Memorial was conceived and created, re-counting his own personal family story, with both local Lemnian villagers and Anzac soldiers as his ancestors. Mr Jim Claven, Secretary of the Committee provided a brief historical outline of the importance of the Anzac experience to Australians as well as the Hellenic connection to Anzac.
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