The War in Iraq – A Personal Retrospective
Australia’s military involvement in the war in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 was controversial, but irrespective of the views in support or against the intervention it is a chapter in […]
Ernest William Capuano (1892-1979) A Tale of Service in WWI – Part 2
In January 1917, Private Ernest Capuano, a driver with 22 AASC who has been trying to transfer to munitions work, was reporting in letters home that his unit was scheduled […]
Ernest William Capuano (1892-1979) A Tale of Service in WWI – Part 1
Ernest William Capuano, the fifth child of Victorian-born parents, was born 31 March 1892 and grew up in the Gippsland district of Victoria. A sentinel feature of the lives of […]
Not all sailors are good! The story of ‘Sailor the Slasher’
The Underbelly – Razor series deals with the Criminal underworld of Sydney during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Bengal ‘cut throat’ blade razors were the preferred weapon of many of the […]
U.S. Forces at the MCG
70th Anniversary Dinner Address to Melbourne Cricket Club 22 November 2012
Disposal of obsolete Australian military firearms in 1905
On September 2nd 1905, Mr. George H. Oliver, representing W.W. Greener – the well- known English Gun, Rifle and Cartridge maker of Haymarket, London – wrote to the Australian Department […]
Sale’s Namesake
Sale is a city in the Gippsland region of Victoria with a population of around 14,000.
A very isolated war grave
In the far north of Western Australia lies perhaps Australia’s most isolated war grave. In the now overgrown and forgotten Drysdale River Mission Station cemetery at Pago, Western Australia lies […]
