Great links, Thanks mate!
Aussie POW's Montevideo Maru I just finished a book called Wewak Mission Coast Watchers at War in New Guinea, Lionel Veale Book is about a...
Bluddy disgrace what would the men who have been their for over 60 years and will be their forever think, if they had enough space they would turn in...
Budley my old mate I will miss you, your fun filled life was remarkable even through the hard times you kept your head up. Mate the curtain now has...
Mate their would of been men of all ages fighting in the Invasion and the following battles and all battles for that matter. Their would of been...
Good to see women who are in the thick of it, not enough publicity down here at least of female soldiers who are involved in actual combat type ops.
Sounds more like he was 6th Division AIF who with the NZ div and 7th (i think) Brit Armoured Div the main force's in the taking of Bardia, Tobruk and...
Is Phillip Hurst a relative of some one on this site as I will be able to pass on the written piece to some who know what to do in regards to getting...
In the Photo at bottom of my posts it is of my father and some other Aussies, my dad is at the far right with peack cap at ridiculus angle, if you...
Maybe see if you or another can get it published, contact the AWM in Canberra for a start they can give you hints on who to contact or may print it...
I may be mistaken in calculations however all the reports i have seen in this issue say the expenditure will be more like 300 Billion little Aussie...
Yes Spidge I understand you were meaning the Jungles most likely PNG and its environs. Mate I was not having a go at you or your choice of weapons,...
Men that were made of some very special compounds. Vale Their was a Brit who was held prisoner in the camp known as the Caves during WW2, he was...
Owen Gun; Not for me just not enough hitting power which begs to ask, during WW2 in the Jungles of PNG it has often been said that the Owen was...
I can imagine the uproar from the current generation if they tried to bring in NS again. Also with NS you have to move Regs around everwhere so they...
Mate what you write may be Technically correct in your way of thinking. Well technichally the Australian Colonie's were self goverening from around...
I have contributed to both sites but i am still just in normal colour.
It was the New Zealander Freyburg who arranged for this Catherdral to be destroyed by Air and Arty, he had convinced himeself and others that the...
As far as actual body injuries go as far as I know my family was very lucky. My uncle Mal was a regular army Warrant Officer when WW2 broke out,...
From what I know Annie,and i have not double checked this just running on memory alone. I am pretty sure it was in 1918. During the great German...
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