The Keenan Prayer Book – From Flanders to Broken Hill
Edward Keenan, born in Workington, Cumberland in 1884 and an iron ore miner by trade, was one of a family of nine sons and four daughters, seven sons of which […]
The High Life of Oswald Watt, Australia’s First Military Pilot by Chris Clark – Book Review
Watt only became a pilot in 1911 and died after an unfortunate accident in 1921.
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth by Paul Ham – Book Review
As military historians are now writing on specific 20th century campaigns, they have the time and space to explore every facet of what was involved.
Bravo Zulu – Honours and Awards to Australian People Volume 1, 1900 – 1974 by Ian Pfennigwerth – Book Review
Bravo Zulu is NATO shorthand for ‘well done’.
The Battle of Fromelles – an ANZAC Tragedy by Peter O’Reilly – Book review
Our RUSI library has a superb collection of items relating to the Battle of Fromelles. Recent events have brought it into prominence – many Australians are now well aware that […]
Passchendaele: requiem for doomed youth by Paul Ham – Book Review
Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front: “pointless butchery that, even by the standards of the Great War entered the realm of the infernal and monumentally […]
What’s In A Number? The Personal Numbering System of the Australian Army by 2151240
The first thing a soldier generally learns, on the very first day of enlistment, is his or her personal number.
A Greater Sum of Sorrow – The Battles of Bullecourt by David Coombes – Book Review
Several years ago, if you wanted the detailed story of any of Australia’s major battles on the Western Front in the First World War, the Official History was your only […]
