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He “assaulted me at the matrimonial home”: captivity trauma and domestic abuse
He “assaulted me at the matrimonial home”: captivity trauma and domestic abuse
This webinar explores the psychological, emotional, and moral dimensions of aggression, violence, and coercive behaviour in the post-war lives of former Australian airmen prisoners of war (POWs). It indicates that, in some cases, physical and emotional abuse were expressions of captivity trauma. Former POWs rarely articulated narratives of perpetration. Accordingly, this webinar also explores the […]
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He “assaulted me at the matrimonial home”: captivity trauma and domestic abuse
He “assaulted me at the matrimonial home”: captivity trauma and domestic abuse
This webinar explores the psychological, emotional, and moral dimensions of aggression, violence, and coercive behaviour in the post-war lives of former Australian airmen prisoners of war (POWs). It indicates that, in some cases, physical and emotional abuse were expressions of captivity trauma. Former POWs rarely articulated narratives of perpetration. Accordingly, this webinar also explores the […]
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The Battle for Shaggy Ridge 19-31 January 1944
The Battle for Shaggy Ridge 19-31 January 1944
The Military History Society of NSW presents: An online presentation by Phillip Bradley 11:00AM AEST Saturday 2 October 2021 via Google Meet Philip Bradley’s latest book tells the extraordinary story of the Australian campaign against the Japanese in New Guinea's Finisterre mountains in 1943-44. One of Australia’s leading battlefield historians, he has written an enlightening […]
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MHHV AGM 2021
MHHV AGM 2021
The Military History & Heritage Victoria Annual General Meeting will be held online, via Zoom, on 13 October 2021. For AGM Documents, Committee Nomination Forms, Agenda and Zoom meeting link please contact MHH Secretary, Jason McGregor, via info@mhhv.org.au or call on 0419 256 681. Election of Office Bearers and Ordinary Committee Members for 2021/22 […]
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RAAF Point Cook and its History
RAAF Point Cook and its History
The RAAF base at Point Cook has been the site of many of Australia’s aviation ‘firsts’. It was the birthplace our county’s military aviation in 1914 and the first operational base of the Royal Australian Air Force when it was founded a century ago in 1921. Cultural historian Dr Steve Campbell-Wright will give us a […]
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The Elements of military Hygiene: Australian Pacific Forces, 1945
The Elements of military Hygiene: Australian Pacific Forces, 1945
Military hygiene is an essential component of any war effort. In the severe tropical climate of the Second World War’s Pacific theatre, disease disabled and killed more Australian troops than the enemy did. Dr Cecil Evelyn Aufrere Cook (1897-1985) CBE, MD, DTMH, DPH, RACGP, ACMA joined the Commonwealth’s Military Reserve as an honorary captain in […]
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No regard for the truth: friendship and kindness. Tragedy and injustice. Rowville’s Italian prisoners of war.
No regard for the truth: friendship and kindness. Tragedy and injustice. Rowville’s Italian prisoners of war.
In March 1946, the war was over. The Italian prisoners of war who had been captured several years earlier in northern Africa were interned in camps around Australia and were waiting to be returned home. One Saturday evening, the commandant of the Rowville internment camp, Captain Waterston, shot and killed a prisoner, Rodolfo Bartoli, who […]
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No regard for the truth: friendship and kindness. Tragedy and injustice. Rowville’s Italian prisoners of war.
No regard for the truth: friendship and kindness. Tragedy and injustice. Rowville’s Italian prisoners of war.
In March 1946, the war was over. The Italian prisoners of war who had been captured several years earlier in northern Africa were interned in camps around Australia and were waiting to be returned home. One Saturday evening, the commandant of the Rowville internment camp, Captain Waterston, shot and killed a prisoner, Rodolfo Bartoli, who […]
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Bringing your Diggers back to life: a Defence service records seminar
Bringing your Diggers back to life: a Defence service records seminar
In partnership with the National Archives of Australia and the Genealogical Society of Victoria, the RHSV presents a seminar on defence service records. Service photo of Private Albert Edward Kemp, who served in France + Belgium in World War 1 and was killed in action in 1917. Courtesy of Museums Victoria website. In this seminar, […]
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