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 […]
The War at Home – by John Connor, Peter Stanley and Peter Yule – Book review
Volume 4 of The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War series.
The War with the Ottoman Empire & The War with Germany – Book Review
These are volumes two and three of the Oxford Centenary History of the Great War, and we are most grateful to the publisher for the review copies.
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 […]
Australia’s Worst 24 Hours: The Centenary of Fromelles with Dr Ross McMullin
The Battle of Fromelles is the worst 24 hours in Australian history claimed historian Dr Ross McMullin.
Memoirs of an Anzac by John Charles Barrie – Book Review
J. C. Barrie was a militia officer who went to war as a Lieutenant with the AIF’s 8th Infantry Battalion and served later with 15 Bde.
In All Respects Ready, Australia’s Navy in World War One by David Steven – Book Review
Popular Australian history of the First World War is primarily about the Army at Gallipoli and then on the Western Front. The RAN is seldom mentioned apart from Sydney’s defeat […]
