Horsham RSL / Horsham U3A – Military History 2011 / 2012
…initiative called the U3A Program Growth Support Fund. This involved the development of a new program and partnering with some other community entity. It was decided to invite the Horsham…
…initiative called the U3A Program Growth Support Fund. This involved the development of a new program and partnering with some other community entity. It was decided to invite the Horsham…
…to captain in 1952 to command Headquarter Company. Written in a most readable and, at times, quite humorous form, there is a generous number of photographs from childhood to old…
…home if they didn’t rejoin soon, and the ship wanted to leave Albany. Finally, a compromise was reached: Hughes offered a Royal Commission once the ship reached Melbourne; committee leaders…
…park with a sculpture that commemorated the horses — either a copy of an existing grand piece in Canberra or a newly commissioned one. Images from the Australian War Memorial….
…about killing or capturing almost two-thirds of the token Australian force, numbering just 1,484 poorly trained troops and 273 members of the 1st Independent Company (Commandos), left to defend it….
…war conflict between communism and the “free world.” The panel session was not, however, intended to cover the broader politico-military situation but to present a few of the 60,000 stories…
…free beer at a wedding’ are initially surprising, but I soon found the book difficult to put down. The strategies of the ‘good guys’ (the Allies) and the ‘bad guys’…
…Easton and Anderson Company, (E & A) Armstrong’s Elswick Ordnance company (E.O.C.) and the Woolwich Royal Carriage Department (R.C.D.). Each had put forward designs that competitively tested before the Director…