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WW1

A poem from the battlefield

The below poem is written for a soldier from a comrade in September 1916 when they were stationed...

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Sydney versus Emden

When war broke out in 1914, the Royal Australian Navy was just 13 years old Having been formally...

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The Battle of Beersheba

  Of the Battle of Beersheba, Charles Bean, Australia’s Official Historian of the First...

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The Battle of Bita Paka – How the Australians Captured New Guinea, by One of Our Boys

The following is an excerpt from Pens and Bayonets - Letters from the Front by soldiers of Yorke...

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Loss of HMAS AE1

Australian Submarine, HMAS AE1, was launched at Barrow-in-Furness, England on 22 May 1913 and was...

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The Dardanelles Cenotaph – No longer the forgotten memorial

The Australasian Soldiers Dardanelles Cenotaph is believed to be the first significant memorial to...

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The road to WW2: Was the Treaty of Versailles a catalyst for the Second World War?

The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919 marked the official end...

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Great War Training Camps

Following the outbreak of the Great War on 4 August 1914 Australia urgently transformed its small...

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War Letters of General Monash

WAR LETTERS OF GENERAL MONASH France, 11 August 1918 I snatch a few minutes late in the evening...

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Corporal Lawrence Carthage Weathers Awarded VC

The citation for the Victoria Cross awarded to Corporal Lawrence Carthage Weathers commends his...

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