A Wintery Tale: Part 2
Six days after Montgomery’s Eighth Army landed on the toe of Italy and began its ponderous advance north, troops of the Anglo American Fifth Army came ashore at Salerno
Lieutenant George Pinnock Merz, MD, MiD (1891-1915)
George Pinnock Merz was born at Prahran on 10 October 1891. A graduate (1914) in Medicine at the University of Melbourne, he was commissioned (1913) second lieutenant in the Melbourne […]
Canberra A84-307 at National Vietnam Veterans Museum
A84-307 was constructed in July 1951 as a B1 bomber version of the English Electric Canberra and purchased at that time by the Australian government.
Conscription’s Unsung Heroes 1951-1973
For over a century National Service, or Conscription, has often been part of the Australian Army mix…
A Wintery Tale: The Italian Campaign of World War 2
Not a lot has ever been written, or said, in Australia about the long and bitter campaign conducted against the Axis (mostly German) forces in Italy during the Second World […]
Libyan Conflict – Then and Now
It’s the geography that counts (among other things) The present conflict for the control of Libya seems to have reached a stalemate…
Victoria and Australian Naval Developments, 1901-1922
At Federation, the former colony that had most to contribute to the Commonwealth Naval Forces which came into being on 1 March 1901 was Victoria.
The Bahia Castillo affair – 1919
During research for ‘An Industrial Invasion’, I came across the story of about 6000 Australian civilian men who volunteered to go and work in British factories during WWI an effort […]
