Ernest William Capuano (1892-1979) A Tale of Service in WWI – Part 2
In January 1917, Private Ernest Capuano, a driver with 22 AASC who has been trying to transfer to munitions work, was reporting in letters home that his unit was scheduled […]
In January 1917, Private Ernest Capuano, a driver with 22 AASC who has been trying to transfer to munitions work, was reporting in letters home that his unit was scheduled […]
Ernest William Capuano, the fifth child of Victorian-born parents, was born 31 March 1892 and grew up in the Gippsland district of Victoria. A sentinel feature of the lives of […]
The Underbelly – Razor series deals with the Criminal underworld of Sydney during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Bengal ‘cut throat’ blade razors were the preferred weapon of many of the […]
In the far north of Western Australia lies perhaps Australia’s most isolated war grave. In the now overgrown and forgotten Drysdale River Mission Station cemetery at Pago, Western Australia lies […]
In Part I of the Treacy story, the author traced Treacy’s career in the Victorian Navy between 1894 to 1901, the Commonwealth Naval Forces between 1901 and 1911 and his […]
In the 1920s, when the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) came into being, the concept of the Australian government’s national defence was based predominantly on a maritime strategy led by […]
‘Are you sure you’ve got the right number? It seems a remarkably low one to me.’ ‘He always claimed to be Number 3 of the Australian Army’, was my reply. […]
Accounts of the period when command arrangements for the Royal Australian Air Force were decided prior to its formation, on 31 March 1921, have usually focused on the competing claims […]