No Contest! The US Navy Destroys Australia’s Special Intelligence Bureau
It happened in ‘Monterey’ a long time ago – 70 years ago this October to be precise, in a block of apartments on Melbourne’s Queens Road. ‘Monterey’ had been requisitioned […]
Fort Gellibrand
Fort Gellibrand is located on Battery Road near Point Gellibrand at the southernmost tip of the Williamstown peninsula as it juts into Hobsons Bay and Port Phillip Bay. Fort Gellibrand […]
MHHV 2012 Conference proceedings: Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War
Cambridge University Press will publish the proceedings from the Military History and Heritage Victoria 2012 conference Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War, in November 2012.
There Goes a Man ("if ever there was one")
The biography of Sir Stanley Savige 1890-1954 by W. B. Russell M.A., B.Ed., first published 1959 is reviewed by Dr David Jenner.
Alfred Martin Treacy (1869 – 1938): Father of the RAN Supply Branch – Part I
In Part I of the Alfred Treacy story, the author traces Treacy’s career in the Victorian Navy between 1894 to 1901, the Commonwealth Naval Forces between 1901 and 1911 and […]
Alfred Martin Treacy (1869 – 1938): Father of the RAN Supply Branch – Part II
In Part I of the Treacy story, the author traced Treacy’s career in the Victorian Navy between 1894 to 1901, the Commonwealth Naval Forces between 1901 and 1911 and his […]
Australia’s first battlefield – the battle of Hartebeestfontein. A letter from Klerksdorp
Klerksdorp. 20 February 1901 Time has sped with fleeting wings and events of import have followed in its trail since we learned Lord Methuen’s intention of “striking hard” at Hartebeestefontein.
The bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942 – The RAAF experience
Shortly before 1000h on 19 February 1942, 188 Japanese carrier aircraft arrived over the port city of Darwin and began attacking naval and civil shipping, harbour facilities and the city […]
