Combat Colonels of the AIF in the Great War – Book Review
by David Clare Holloway
To Shoot or Drill: the Rifle Clubs and the Great War 1911-1918 Part 2
This Article is part 2 of an excerpt from Chapter 7, ‘The Great War’ in Kilsby, A.J., The Riflemen, A History of the National Rifle Association of Australia 1888-1988, (Longueville […]
Book review – In All Respects Ready: Australia’s Navy in World War One
In All Respects Ready: Australia’s Navy in World War One by David Stevens.
The First Fateful Shot: Port Phillip Bay, August 1914
Shortly after midday the gunners at Fort Nepean lined up the German merchant steamer – the SS Pfalz – as it bolted towards the heads and fired the first shot […]
Under new management: the Royal Australian Navy and the removal of Germany from the Pacific, 1914-15 by Ian Pfennigwerth
At the outbreak of WWI in August 1914, the Australian Fleet and the Australian Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) were tasked to remove the German presence from the Pacific.
The Mystery of AE1: Australia’s Lost Submarine and Crew by Kathryn Spurling
The loss of AE1 with her entire complement of 3 officers and 32 sailors was the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) first major tragedy and it marred an otherwise successful operation […]
Charles Bean’s Gallipoli Illustrated Edited by Philip Bradley
Philip Bradley has done two useful things in this book; he has taken extracts from Charles Bean’s diary from Gallipoli and combined it with dozens of never before seen photographs […]
Book Review – Empires of the dead: How one man’s vision led to the creation of WWI’s war graves by David Crane.
No tour of the battlefields of the two World Wars can omit a visit to at least one Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery.
