Book Review – Empires of the dead: How one man’s vision led to the creation of WWI’s war graves by David Crane.
No tour of the battlefields of the two World Wars can omit a visit to at least one Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery.
Vale – Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Jesse Gregory, Royal Australian Navy (Retired)
Mac Gregory was born in Geelong on 9 February 1922. His father was a member of the RAN based at Osborne House in Geelong and working with the J-Class Submarines.
Reginald Langdon Buller
Reginald Langdon Buller, Civil Servant, Naval Officer and Vigneron was born in Geelong, Victoria on 30 May 1894 the only son of Frederick Thomas Buller (Civil Servant) and Mary Graham […]
War! What is it good for? The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots – Book Review
By Ian Morris Profile, Books: London; 2014; 448 pp.; ISBN 9781781252963; RRP $35.00 (softcover)
Victoria at War 1914-1918 – Book Review
Victoria at War 1914-1918 By Michael McKernan is another coffee table book on the First World War.
Letter Written by the Leader of the Charge of the Light Horse at Beersheba
The RUSI of Victoria Library has been given a valuable letter written by the officer who led the charge of the Light Horse at Beersheba in the First World War.
Afghanistan: Australia’s War
A photographic story of the nation’s longest war and those who served by Gary Ramage and Ian McPhedran
The Backroom Boys – Alfred Conlon and Army’s Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, 1942-46
A review of Graeme Sligo’s book “The Backroom Boys – Alfred Conlon and Army’s Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs, 1942-46”
