From the WIA Club Liaison, via Email (note the email has been tersified for the web):

My email today is regarding the “Last Hurrah” for the ANZAC Commemorations, between December 12th & 20th.  I have been asked by the WIA to lower the curtain in VI4ANZAC here in Queensland.  I have agreed, and set up a Team to work it over the said period.

Being ex NAVY myself, I have chosen to concentrate this operation on the forgotten ANZAC’s of the RANBT.  These were the men of the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, “Sailors in Khaki” who served at Kangaroo Beach, Suvla Bay.  They are virtually unknown and pretty much forgotten in the ANZAC narrative.  But these men were in fact the last Australians to leave the Gallipoli Peninsule.

As such a special and unique QSL card has been made available in hardcopy, only for the VI4ANZAC operations from Dec12th to 20th.  I have attached a small promotional below on these men, and the website at qrz.com has more pics and details.

This has been on the WIA News, but to go to the website is quite something else, and many will be unaware of the special QSL card we are offering.

Fundamentally I would like everyone to get onboard for the last ANZAC Commemorations throughout Australia.  But if you can assist me with this Bulk email and feel free to send the attachment Fred, as this is what we will be about in Queensland.

The RAN hold the Honour of being First In & Last Out for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli Campaign.  You may have seen or heard or even worked VI4AE2 that I ran in honour of the Australian Submarine HMAS AE2 back in April this year for 5 days.

See also:
VI4ANZAC
Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train
December 12th — 20th 2015

A rare opportunity will present itself between December 12th & 20th 2015 for those wishing to work a very special entity of the Wireless Institute of Australia’s ANZAC Commemoration program.  Yes you may have heard of it, and even worked VI4ANZAC during the past 8 months of operations.  This curtain closing event will focus on the Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train.  As such, for the first time in the commemorations, there will be a special RANBT QSL card in honour of these forgotten Anzacs.

These Sailors in Khaki served as engineers, and often as Wireless Operators, at Kangaroo Beach, Suvla Bay, with the British Army from August 7th to December 20th 1915.  They were in fact the last Australians off of the Gallipoli Peninsula, after the British had left from Suvla Bay on December 20th 1915.  The RANBT was the most decorated unit in the Royal Australian Navy with 20 awards throughout their service on Gallipoli and in the desert.

You can find out all the details, frequencies and times of our special VI4ANZAC operations here. We look forward to working you one and all during December 2015.

Best 73
Team Leader
MIKE CHARTERIS
VK4QS
VK4XQM (Special Spark station call sign)