Victoria and the Scottish Horse
On Saturday 28 October 1899 over 250,000 Melburnians, over half of the city’s then population, turned out to farewell the 1st Victorian Mounted Regiment and the 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry, […]
Desert Diggers – David Mitchelhill-Green – Book Review
I enjoyed reading this book as the author has managed to achieve something which is very difficult, namely, to seamlessly combine brief excerpts from a large number of letters with […]
Defenders of the Queen: Imperial and Colonial Defence 1850 – 1901
In this conference, historians and experts on the era presented on both the strategic and the tactical.
Fitzroy Somerset Lanyon Penno, The last Imperial Assistant Adjutant-General in Victoria 1854 – 1930
On Friday 18 October 1889, tucked away on page seven of the Melbourne Argus, an announcement – the appointment of 35-year-old Captain F.S.L. Penno as assistant adjutant-general in the Victorian […]
Mandatory Military Minors
‘In 1911 Australia became the first modern English-speaking country to demand universal and mandatory military training in times of peace; for 12- to 18-year-old boys. Caulfield Grammar School with its […]
Major Gus Ebeling DSO: A Controversial Citizen and Soldier
Gustav Adolph (Gus) Ebeling was born at Percydale in the Pyrenees Ranges of the central Victorian goldfields on 5 March 1871.
Captain Edwards and the Australian Volunteer Automobile Corps – a German Spy?
Part Two
Captain Edwards and the Australian Volunteer Automobile Corps – a German Spy?
Part One
