Red Zone Baghdad
When Colonel Marcus Fielding returned home from his tour of duty in Baghdad, a taxi driver asked him what it was like being a soldier there.
The Australian Air Corps
On its formation on 31 March 1921, the RAAF was the second independent air force in the world—after the Royal Air Force (RAF). But another distinct “air force” flew aircraft, […]
Presentation of King’s Banner centenary – 13 December 2011
The King’s Banners presented to Australian infantry battalions for service in the Boer War were presented one hundred years ago this year. Sir Edward Hamley’s verse provides a vivid description […]
The Ballarat Ranger Military Museum and Kirby DSO
The Ballarat Ranger Military Museum was opened in the old Ranger Barracks in Ballarat in 1989. One of the many pieces of memorabilia found in a recent search of the […]
A Wintery Tale: Part 2
Six days after Montgomery’s Eighth Army landed on the toe of Italy and began its ponderous advance north, troops of the Anglo American Fifth Army came ashore at Salerno
Lieutenant George Pinnock Merz, MD, MiD (1891-1915)
George Pinnock Merz was born at Prahran on 10 October 1891. A graduate (1914) in Medicine at the University of Melbourne, he was commissioned (1913) second lieutenant in the Melbourne […]
Canberra A84-307 at National Vietnam Veterans Museum
A84-307 was constructed in July 1951 as a B1 bomber version of the English Electric Canberra and purchased at that time by the Australian government.
Conscription’s Unsung Heroes 1951-1973
For over a century National Service, or Conscription, has often been part of the Australian Army mix…
