Two Victorians awarded the Military Medal for bravery
Remembrance Day is a time for many people to take a moment to think about the men and women who have served their country in a war zone over seas.
The Allonville Disaster: notorious or forgotten? With Prof. Peter Stanley
In the early hours of 31 May 1918 German shells struck a farm at Allonville on the Somme.
The Armistice and The Australian 4th Light Horse
Why a minute of silence at 11am on 11th of November every year is observed.
Crawl to Freedom, Australian POW escapes of World War One: Darren Prickett – Book Review
Although there is one example of an Australian POW (Prisoner of War) escape from the Gallipoli campaign, all the other stories contained within this book are those from the various […]
Serbian commemorative stamps commemorating Australian medical volunteers in World War One
In 2023, the Australian Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, had one of my books translated into Serbian and published jointly with the Serbian Institute for the Newer History of Serbia.
Great Courage and Initiative – The Heroic Life of George Ingram VC, MM. – Speaker: Anthony McAleer OAM
By today’s standards George Mawby Ingram lived a courageous life.
Book Review – Dive! Australian Submariners at War by Mike Carlton
If you have read any of Mike Carlton’s other books on Australian Naval history then this review will be a very short and to the point.
From Books and Blackboards to Battlefields- Victoria’s State School Teacher-Soldiers in the Great War – Speaker: Rosalie Triolo
All of us have memories of our schooldays, but few Victorians have paused to contemplate the experiences of Victoria’s male State school teachers, mainly ‘primary’ but with some from the […]
