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Powerful photographic images of the Vietnam conflict by Gunner Paul Haw, a Vietnam veteran of 1968-69

Powerful photographic images of the Vietnam conflict by Gunner Paul Haw, a Vietnam veteran of 1968-69

The state Library has organised a free public talk with Air Chief Marshall Angus Huston next week. I believe your colleagues and members might be interested in attending this talk. Would you be able to forward on this information and maybe list the event on your events page or on social media? Big Ideas under […]

Notice of Annual General Meeting Please take notice that a general meeting of Military History and Heritage Victoria Inc. (hereafter MHHV Inc.) will be held in the Blamey Room of Victoria Barracks, St. Kilda Road, South Bank, Melbourne, Victoria 3007 at 6 pm on Wednesday 22 October 2013. AGENDA 1. Attendance. 2. Apologies. 3. Minutes […]

Our speaker is Commander Jim Speed DSC RAN Ret. 70 years ago, Jim Speed was a young Sub/Lt Commando on Sword Beach Red. The Commandos job was to land on the beach prior to the landing craft and assist the unloading of troops by holding the landing craft staying ‚Äòbows on the beach‚Äô. Thus it […]

When Britain declared war in August 1914, Australians reacted with enormous patriotism. Young men in their thousands signed up to serve in what would be a long drawn out and bloody conflict in which 60,000 young Australians died, about one in ten of all men aged between 18 and 40. Young women, too, volunteered to […]

The lecture will be presented by a panel of five speaker, each speaker‚Äôs presentations will be about 15 minutes, and after all speakers have completed their presentation the floor will be open for questions. Master of Ceremonies: Tony Wheal Opening address: Colin Fee - Friends of the RAAF Museum, President Presentations: Pilot: WGCDR Nick Leray-Meyer […]

to be opened on Friday 8 August at 5 pm. This will be followed by the annual Augustus Wolskel Memorial Lecture to be delivered by Dr Bart Ziino, entitled: ‚ÄòAt Home with the War: The Great War in Victorian Private Life‚Äô, commencing at 6.15. Welcome by Prof Don Garden, President of the RHSV. Cost: Member […]

To be launched by Assoc. Prof Don Garden FRHSV, President of the RHSV. Time: 5.15 (Drill Hall – Drinks & Book Launch). To be followed by panel discussion: Schoolboy Conscripts and Khaki Criminals: sidelights to the Militarisation of Australia. Speakers: Dr Maxwell Waugh & Russell Robinson. Time: 6.00pm (Speakers’ Room)

Mr David Vines White, Somerset Herald, College of Arms, London, will discuss the representation of the First World War in the armorial bearings granted to various military and naval commanders, armament manufacturers and others.The lecture will be illustrated using records of the College of Arms with examples set in the context of older English heraldic […]

Victorians are invited to an informative evening of local and international military heritage news, as the Royal Historical Society of Victoria welcomes the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria, Tim Smith.To be held on Tuesday 19 May at 5.45pm, Tim will discuss the work being done to protect and celebrate military heritage sites, both here in […]

The John Duigan Memorial Lecture is held annually by the Aviation Historical Society of Australia to commemorate the first flight, by John Robertson Duigan on 16th July 1910, of an aeroplane designed and built in Australia, and to discuss other significant events in the history of Australian aviation. Steve Campbell-Wright is the author of the […]