Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: Dr Hardy
Bar open at 5pm
Humffray Room
Dr Hardy and the Men of St Paul's Anglican Church WWI Participants
Speaker: Neil Leckie - Co-Cordinator Twilight Talks
Neil Leckie is a BMI Member with many years of military service and an interest in The Great War in particular.
Dr Hardy
Dr Charles Henry ‘William’ Hardy was a well-known and well-respected member of the Ballarat Community. He was a member of many Ballarat organisations, including the Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, where he was President twice.
Apart from those involvements he was a family man and a member of the militia. After war broke out, in 1915 Dr Hardy enlisted into the AIF and took the 6th Field Ambulance, a part of the 2nd Australian Division, to Egypt and Gallipoli.
Anne Doggett, in her recently published book on the Honour Board of St Paul’s Church on Bakery Hill Lives on Honour, Ballarat East and the Great War gives details on nine of St Paul’s Church men who also served with the 6th Field Ambulance. Dr Hardy and the men of St Paul’s Church chronicles the life of Dr Hardy and those nine men.
Two of Dr Hardy’s family will attend the talk.
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Tickets and Bookings
Tickets $9.73 BMI members & $13.83 general admittance, includes gst & bkg fee.
