1911 Coronation Medal – Australian Naval Contingent
King Edward VII died on 6 May 1910 and King George V became King. His coronation took place a year later at Westminster Abbey, London on 22 June 1911 and […]
Fort Gellibrand – Understanding the Trace
Understanding the purpose and development of any fortification requires its ‘trace’ to be established (the outline of the fortification at a particular development stage).
Surgeon Lieut-Commander Samuel Edward Lees Stening DSC VRD RANR
DSC for gallantry and resolution whilst serving in HMAS PERTH lost by enemy action in the Far East on 1st March 1942.- (DSC, London Gazette 19 March 1946, presented by […]
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 […]
