I had heard this before that cricket came from Belgium. Still it was the Brits who transformed the game Cricket.
I have also heard stories of the senior POW's who in some cases told the rest of the POW's to sit and wait for liberation, only to find that after a...
Hello, I am wondering whether anyone can help me with the formula for converting pounds into Millimetres. As in What would the xxx Pounder Field...
Cheers Keith, that's very interesting. Have you anything on WW2? I remember reading about the Artillery Barrage at the Battle of El Alamein, it was...
Hi this day the 18th August 2010 is the 44th Anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan during the 2nd Viet Nam war (late 1950's till 1972) It was not...
Have you contacted the SMH? They should have archives and the like from Mr AWV King's stories which then should lead to his full name and so on,...
ATM the RAA are manning Brit guns in Afghanistan. One Battery at a time 6 month rotation if my memory serves me right. RAA Gunners under command of a...
Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery "Honours". Continuation of conversation re RA and RAA Honours etc." Heyya Keith, I forgot to place,...
For you Keith, You probably have seen this or something very similar before. Oh another kind nickname the Weed Walkers use for the Arty down here is...
Greetings a story I felt I just had to share with you, George a Polish veteran of Arnhem enlisted in the Australian Infantry 'K' force for fighting...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Dechaineux Captain Emile Frank Dechaineux DSC; Legion of Merit (USA) Born like several other WW2 RAN senior...
Fishermans Bend they used that along with Avalon as part of their FA18 build back in the 1980's don't know who owns what down their now or if it all...
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That is the tricky thing about this thread when and how do the USA get involved. Certainly could of been a couple of years further down the track....
http://www.navyhistory.org.au/rear-admiral-farncomb/ This man apparently spent the majority of war at sea, three (3) of his previous commands were...
A short history of Captain Waller who commanded HMAS Stuart during battle of Matapan and was credited with severely damaging three (3) Italian...
Yes a busy time and interesting to see some of the RAN deeds outside the Med and Indian and Pacific oceans.
This has been a interesting thread to read, they were such hard days, being bombed, torpedoed or engaged by a enemy ship (especially those of the...
HMAS Yarra WW2 http://hmasyarra.org.au/yarra2.html A interesting short bio on the four (4) HMAS Yarra. The story of Yarra (2) during WW2 is the...
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