Lemnos Square News Today

The sun shone as Melbourne's Greek community joined with those from the wider community to commemorate the role of Lemnos in Australia's Gallipoli story. The annual service is held on the anniversary of the arrival of Australia's nurses on the Island in August 1915.

Melbourne's Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee has announced that its annual commemorative service will be held this year on Saturday 12 August, the event commencing at 11am.

The Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial at Lemnos Square in Albert Park has reportedly been vandalised with paint for a second time.

The new Albanese Government Minister for Veterans', the Hon Matt Keogh MP, paid a visit to Melbourne's iconic Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial

For the first time the landing of the Australian nurses on Lemnos during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915-16 was commemorated at the location where the nurses came ashore on 8th August 1915.

This year's annual Papaflessas Greek independence day dinner dance had much more to celebrate than usual.

The Evzones - featured at the first Anzac Day commemorative service held at the Lemnos Gallipoli Memorial at Lemnos Square, Albert Park.

It was during their service on Lemnos that Matron Wilson and her nurses were exposed to the full experience of war.

5 May 2021 12:43pm Many readers will be aware of Melbourne artist and graphic designer, George Petrou OAM and his paintings of individual Anzacs and celebrated Australians. His distinctive paintings which vividly bring to life the individuals from our past now hang in institutions across Australia and overseas. Now George – in conjunction with Big Sky Publishing – has captured this work in a single, large format volume of over 400 pages, lavishly illustrated. Recently I met up with George i...

Bay Street in Port Melbourne, where many Greek businesses are located, was closed to cars at midnight on Monday so the crew of “La Brea”, a new US TV show could begin filming in the area for the next six months. The word travelled quickly down Bay Street. Sarah Dimitrokallis of Melbourne Bakehouse told Neos Kosmos the film was discussed by businesses and customers alike. “I feel like a lot of the residents are excited that the street is getting a lot of publicity, but others are annoyed ...