Described by Charles Bean as "short and dapper in figure, a vigorous, brave, upright and understanding leader of fighting men", William Birdwood commanded the Australian Corps for much of the First ...

Raymond Leane was a member of one of Australia's most well-known military families and served with distinction in the First World War. He was born on 12 July 1878 at Prospect, South Australia. After ...

Pagination 58 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Publisher Australia ICOMOS [and] Council for the Historic Environment, Note Cover title. "... contains edited papers selected from those given at the first national ...

Note FIRST only. A single sheet from the 1:1 250 000 aeronautical map series covering the northwestern part of the island of New Guinea (Dutch New Guinea, now the Indonesian province of Papua).

Note FIRST only. A single sheet from the 1:1 250 000 aeronautical map series covering the Indonesian island of Halmahera and surrounding area. Shows islands and reefs, bays and straits, populated ...

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 ...

Gordon Bennett, born on 16 April 1887 at Balwyn, Melbourne, was Australia's most controversial Second World War commander. As a youth he attended Balwyn State School and Hawthorn College before ...

Scope note During the nineteenth century the major European powers compelled the reluctant Chinese Empire to start trading with them. There was little the Chinese government wanted from the West at ...

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South Vietnam. 1968-01. With camouflage wrapped firmly around his head, Corporal Jock Bishop of Rosebud, Vic, waits for the order to move out on patrol after a rest during Operation Duntroon. The 10 ...

Note Includes bibliographical references and index. "Herbst defines, traces, and explains the loaded, controversial, confusing, and shifting language that surrounds terrorist activity. The dictionary ...

Pagination 23 p. ; 17 cm. Publisher Women's League of Nations Assoc., Your generous donation will be used to ensure the memory of our Defence Forces and what they have done for us, and what they ...