The Memorial for Lieutenant Colonel Charles Umphelby
Lt Colonel Charles Umphelby died of wounds received in action at Driefontein on 12 March 1900.
The Boer War and its influence on modern Australia
A paper based on an address delivered at a service commemorating the 2nd Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 at the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney, on Sunday 26 May 2019 by Rear […]
Australia’s First Spies – The remarkable story of Australia’s intelligence operations, 1901-45 John Fahey – Book Review
This is a rather unsatisfying book.
Ready, Aim, Fire – Major James Francis Thomas – The Fourth Victim in the Execution of Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant By James Unkles – Book Reviews
The film Breaker Morant provided many of us with background information on the trial and execution of Harry “Breaker” Morant.
Australia’s first spies: the remarkable story of Australia’s intelligence operations, 1901-45 by John Fahey – Book Review
This impressively researched book deals with the origins and development of Australia’s intelligence services from Federation to 1945.
Was General Sir Stanley Maude Poisoned?
Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley ‘Joe’ Maude was one of the First World War’s most successful fighting Generals.
Young Hitler: the making of the Führer by Paul Ham – Book Review
When Adolf Hitler went to war in 1914, aged 25, he lived through what he would later call the “most stupendous experience of my life”.
A proper memorial for Lieutenant Colonel Charles Umphelby
Dear members and friends of Military History and Heritage Victoria, the campaign to establish a proper memorial for lieutenant Colonel Charles Umphelby has raised the needed funds and the work […]
