Klerksdorp. 20 February 1901 Time has sped with fleeting wings and events of import have followed in its trail since we learned Lord Methuen’s intention of “striking hard” at Hartebeestefontein.
Shortly before 1000h on 19 February 1942, 188 Japanese carrier aircraft arrived over the port city of Darwin and began attacking naval and civil shipping, harbour facilities and the city […]
In the 1920s, when the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) came into being, the concept of the Australian government’s national defence was based predominantly on a maritime strategy led by […]
‘Are you sure you’ve got the right number? It seems a remarkably low one to me.’ ‘He always claimed to be Number 3 of the Australian Army’, was my reply. […]
In relating and explaining our naval history to Australians, one is faced with several problems. The first is that the average person knows next to nothing about it. Despite the […]
In England Lieutenant William Rooke Creswell RN decided the crowded RN List offered no promise for early promotion. He retired and in 1879 emigrated to South Australia, later working in […]
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, 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 […]
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