Launch of Australia’s Field Marshal The Leadership of Sir Thomas Blamey
Launch of Australia’s Field Marshal – The Leadership of Sir Thomas Blamey – Shrine of Remembrance 26 July 2016- By Emeritus Professor David Horner
War Wounds – The Medicine of Trauma and Conflict Edited by Ashley Atkins and Elizabeth Stewart – Book Review
An international conference War Wounds: Medicine of Trauma and Conflict was conceived by Ashley Atkins and with his colleague Elizabeth Stewart developed the program that was convened by the Australian […]
Private John Charlton No.1467, 5th VMR Contingent – His Light Has Dimmed: A Lost Memory
For John Charlton, eldest son of Walter and Mary Charlton of Castle Creek, a small settlement near Euroa in central Victoria, deployment to the South African Boer War couldn’t come […]
Command and control: nuclear weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the illusion of safety by Eric Schlosser – Book Review
As a newly commissioned lieutenant in the mid-1980s, with the Cold War still ‘raging’, I sat in a classroom at the School of Military Engineering and was drilled on ‘nuclear […]
First drafts of History: Rediscovering Victoria’s war correspondents
From the Boer War to Vietnam and beyond, Australians have long relied on war correspondents to bring home reports from the front lines of conflict.
Soldier On: WWI Soldier Settler Stories
On 11th May 2016 Kate Luciano was MHHV’s monthly Military History Speaker. In it she summarised the post WW1 Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme helped settle some 11,639 out of the […]
A Magnificent Boer War Monument
The Boer War Monument in St Kilda Road, located opposite the Victoria Barracks, was erected in 1903 shortly after hostilities ceased.
Anzac Cove to Afghanistan, The History of the 3rd Brigade by Glenn Wahlert – Book Review
‘The History of the 3rd Brigade’ is a story about a formation which will always stand ready to defend the national interest at short notice, wherever and whenever required.’ Brigadier RJH […]
