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Last weekend saw a large gathering descend on Ballarat's avenue of memorials – Sturt Street – for the annual commemoration of the refugee work of Major George Devine Treloar under a beautiful spring sun.
The George Treloar Memorial Committee, in conjunction with Merimna Pontion Kyrion Oceania and Pontiaki Eastia, will hold its annual commemorative service at the Major George Devine Treloar Statue and Memorial in Sturt Street, Ballarat.
May 19 marks Pontic Greek Genocide Remembrance Day, an official day of commemoration for the systematic killing and ethnic cleansing of Greeks living on the shores of the Black Sea during World War I and the Greco-Turkish War that followed.