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 […]
Enemy Submarine Activity off the Australian Coast in WW2. By Mackenzie Gregory.
Introduction. When Japan made her sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday December 7th. 1941, not only did she precipitate the United States into WW2, but they probably decided their […]
Battling in Peking
The diary of Lancelot Giles provides a gripping account of the siege of the foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion. In the Hollywood movie 55 days at Peking (Allied Artists, […]
The Girls in Grey
Four actors; three female, and one male who plays the multiple roles of husband, sweetheart, brother and the iconic role of ‘the unknown soldier’ perform The Girls in Grey.
1942 – A year to remember
The fall of Rabaul on January 23, 1942, will forever be linked with two tragedies, the massacres at Tol and Waitavalo that claimed at least 158 lives on February 4 that […]
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 […]
Protected: In the Shadow of War. Australia 1942.
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Thorneycroft’s Unbuttoned – the story of Thorneycroft’s mounted infantry in the Boer war, 1899-1902
(Which includes the roll of all who served) When Major Alexander Thorneycroft of the Royal Scots Fusiliers was asked to form a mounted corps in November 1899 he little realized […]
