The Imperial Service Club was incorporated within the Royal Automobile Club of Australia (RACA) in 1986, bringing with it a history stretching back to World War I.
Read more about Imperial Service Club: History, Joining RACA
Famous quotes containing the words imperial, service and/or club:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“He loved to sit silent in a corner of his club and listen to the loud chattering of politicians, and to think how they all were in his power—how he could smite the loudest of them, were it worth his while to raise his pen for such a purpose.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)