Leslie Morshead won fame as the defender of Tobruk during the Second World War and is among the most renowned Australian divisional commanders of that war. He was born at Ballarat in Victoria on 18 ...

Fifty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Judith Rowe stood in shock, staring at the collapsed building where she had sought ...

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PhD thesis providing information about Jessie Tomlins who served, first as a Staff Nurse and later as a Sister, in the 14th Australian General Hospital in Egypt during 1916.

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Western Australia's 2/28th Infantry Battalion was raised in 1940, with the nucleus of the battalion coming together at Melville Camp, near Fremantle, on 17 July. The battalion was initially raised as ...

Depicts a father sitting in an armchair with a look of concern across his face. His son plays with toys soldiers below him on the carpet, while his daughter sits on his knee, pointing to a page in her ...

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With this volume Colonel Butler completes the task assigned him in writing the History of Medical Services of the Australian Army in the War of 1914-18. SECTION I discusses the technical problems of ...

The Kokoda Trail was a path that linked Ower's Corner, approximately 40 km north-east of Port Moresby, and the small village of Wairopi, on the northern side of the Owen Stanley mountain range. From ...

Almost a million Australians, both men and women, served in the Second World War. This war affected Australians more directly than the First World War, and caused immense social change. More than ...

Lightly constructed, light grey painted radio set with two black selector switches and white switch labelling on face. A 200MHz (secondary) radar interrogator-beacon system, Rebecca and Eureka formed ...