by admin | Sep 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
On 5 May 2012 a memorial was unveiled at Canberra to commemorate the crucial 1942 battle of the Coral Sea in which Allied naval forces turned back a Japanese invasion fleet bound for Port Moresby, now the capital of Papua New Guinea. The memorial had a dual purpose,...
by admin | Sep 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
MH17 wreckage near village of Rozsypne (Reuters) Australians are still coming to terms with the tragedy which befell a Malayasian Airlines Boeing 777 airliner which was shot out of the sky as it flew over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014. All 15 crew and 283...
by admin | Sep 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
(Left) Lasseter in AIF uniform during World War I; (centre) Corner Inlet map; (right) Lasseter’s boat on display at Foster Museum The man born Lewis Hubert Lasseter (1880-1931) has found a place in Australian folklore for not discovering a fabulously rich reef of...
by admin | Sep 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
(Left) General Bridges; (centre) Sandy in Egypt; (right) Sandy’s head formerly displayed at the Australian War Memorial In July 2015 I was contacted by Rosemary Johns, a Melbourne playwright who was then completing a script presenting the story of “Sandy”—the...
by admin | Sep 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the middle of last year I completed a project for the Australian War Memorial to summarise the current state of historical research on Indigenous service in Australia’s armed forces. It was while working on this task that I came across K. C. (“Kenny”)...
by admin | Aug 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Jeff Grey in his ADFA office The conference held in Canberra on 29-30 July by the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (ACSACS) to reflect on the legacy of war historian Charles Bean was heavily overshadowed by the sudden death three days...
