HMAS Ballarat I
Named after the Victorian inland city of Ballarat. HMAS Ballarat I was one of sixty Australian Minesweepers (commonly known as corvettes) built during World War II in Australian shipyards as […]
Named after the Victorian inland city of Ballarat. HMAS Ballarat I was one of sixty Australian Minesweepers (commonly known as corvettes) built during World War II in Australian shipyards as […]
In 1942 Australia lay in the shadow of war, a shadow on its very doorstep. The victorious Japanese forces had swept right up to Australian territory and the very lifeline […]
In reviewing this book I must declare “my conflict of interest” as the author is a personal friend and I had the pleasure of launching this riveting narrative of Australia’s […]
Ronald ‘Buck’ Taylor was born in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton on 29 April 1918, the fourth of ten children (six boys and four girls) born to Elsie Taylor (Nee […]
With the tattered fragments of the white ensign still flying, the YARRA slid beneath the waves at 8 am. Rankin’s defiant gesture, which cost the lives of 117 of the […]
DSC for gallantry and resolution whilst serving in HMAS PERTH lost by enemy action in the Far East on 1st March 1942.- (DSC, London Gazette 19 March 1946, presented by […]
It happened in ‘Monterey’ a long time ago – 70 years ago this October to be precise, in a block of apartments on Melbourne’s Queens Road. ‘Monterey’ had been requisitioned […]
Cambridge University Press will publish the proceedings from the Military History and Heritage Victoria 2012 conference Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War, in November 2012.