Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray
Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray was born at Glen Huntly, VIC on 26 December 1921 and was educated at Hampton High School, Melbourne.
Under new management: the Royal Australian Navy and the removal of Germany from the Pacific, 1914-15 by Ian Pfennigwerth
At the outbreak of WWI in August 1914, the Australian Fleet and the Australian Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) were tasked to remove the German presence from the Pacific.
The Mystery of AE1: Australia’s Lost Submarine and Crew by Kathryn Spurling
The loss of AE1 with her entire complement of 3 officers and 32 sailors was the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) first major tragedy and it marred an otherwise successful operation […]
Charles Bean’s Gallipoli Illustrated Edited by Philip Bradley
Philip Bradley has done two useful things in this book; he has taken extracts from Charles Bean’s diary from Gallipoli and combined it with dozens of never before seen photographs […]
Book Review – Empires of the dead: How one man’s vision led to the creation of WWI’s war graves by David Crane.
No tour of the battlefields of the two World Wars can omit a visit to at least one Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery.
Vale – Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Jesse Gregory, Royal Australian Navy (Retired)
Mac Gregory was born in Geelong on 9 February 1922. His father was a member of the RAN based at Osborne House in Geelong and working with the J-Class Submarines.
Reginald Langdon Buller
Reginald Langdon Buller, Civil Servant, Naval Officer and Vigneron was born in Geelong, Victoria on 30 May 1894 the only son of Frederick Thomas Buller (Civil Servant) and Mary Graham […]
War! What is it good for? The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots – Book Review
By Ian Morris Profile, Books: London; 2014; 448 pp.; ISBN 9781781252963; RRP $35.00 (softcover)
