Donating Wartime Memorabilia

The handling of war time family memorabilia has been discussed on a number of occasions at meetings of Friends of the Odd Bods and clearly this is an issue for many.  

We covered the matter back in July 2016 (https://friendsofoddbods.blogspot.com.au/2016/07/what-to-do-with-war-time-memorabilia.html) and we are pleased to advise that further progress has been made.

Committee Member, Michael Rossiter, has taken on the task of evaluating options for the handling of veterans memorabilia and specifically how they might be donated to the RAAF Museum at  Point Cook.

Michael recently met with David Gardner, the Director of the museum. Further discussions will take place with the Museum later in the year or early next year but in the meantime some key points were discussed.

 1) Number One item - The family has to be sure that when donating items (medals, logbooks, maps, clothing, etc) all family are 100% confirmed as once the items are donated, the museum is in full control;

 2) The items accepted by the museum are for RAAF servicemen/servicewomen only;

 3) Items donated to the museum can be loaned by the museum to places such as The Shrine, however the family will be notified of this;

 4) Items may take up to 10 years to be placed on show without request;

 5) If family wants to view items, they must give the museum around 8 weeks to organise this to occur;

6) Items will be receipted into the museum and the family will be given written acknowledgement of this. The family will then receive formal advice of this at a later date with further detail relating to the terms of the museum. This is in accordance with the museum's procedures.

If you have any queries about this process please pass them on to us by email or phone (see Contact Us tab at top of page) so that we can include them in discussions with the museum.