Fort Gellibrand
Fort Gellibrand is located on Battery Road near Point Gellibrand at the southernmost tip of the Williamstown peninsula as it juts into Hobsons Bay and Port Phillip Bay. Fort Gellibrand […]
Victoria: Its Role in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth’s Foundation Navy Cont…
Governor Captain Sir Charles Hotham KCB RN arrived in Melbourne on board the Queen of the South, commanded by Captain William Henry Norman (1812-1869), to assume the governorship of Victoria. […]
Victoria: Its Role in the formation of the Australian Commonwealth’s Foundation Navy
Victoria, formed as a British Colony 161 years ago, was to become the ‘Cradle of the Australian Navy’, the base from which the Commonwealth Federation developed its formidable Australian Naval […]
Lieutenant deNeufville LUCAS, 40th Regiment
This is the story of, perhaps, an unspectacular man, a soldier who experienced both garrison posting and war, volunteering and public service. It is not an altogether new story, but […]
The sea forts of Victoria – Forts that never were!
In 1859 Britain was swept with an anti-French fever whipped up by the Press as a result of the construction of the French warship La Gloire, the first armoured steam […]
Black Men in the Victorian Naval Forces
The Victorian Navy came into being in 1855 when Her Majesty’s Colonial Ship (HMCS) Victoria was manned for the delivery voyage to Australia. This article just scratches the surface of […]
The early muzzle-loaders in the Victorian Volunteer Forces
There was a proliferation of various types of rifles used by both the Volunteer Forces from 1860. We can eliminate a few of these from this review, namely the short-barrelled […]
Octavius Skinner Burton (1823-1895): Cavalry Staff Officer and Police Inspector
Quintessential cavalryman and Victorian Police Inspector Octavius Skinner Burton was born in Wales in 1823, the eighth (hence Octavius) of ten children. Burton was a descendent of well connected and […]
