Sabretache articles from December 2003

Sabretache archives from December 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... Sabretache averaged 48 pages per issue for many years. This average was increased by 6 pages per issue in 2002. In 2003 it jumped from 54 pages to 64 pages with one 80 page issue, one 64 page issue and two 56 page issues. In 2004 the aim will...

MHSA Biennial Conference 2004.
December 1, 2003... NSW Labour Day Long Weekend 2 to 4 October 2004 Albury-Wodonga The next Society Biennial Conference will be hosted by the Albury-Wodonga Branch and will have a theme of variety and recognition of significant events whose anniversary will...

The organisation of the Imperial Camel Brigade, 1916-1918.
December 1, 2003... The 1st Brigade, Imperial Camel Corps--more commonly known as the Imperial Camel Brigade--was raised on 13 December 1916 under the command of Brigadier General Clement Leslie Smith VC MC (1). The Brigade concentrated at Mazar on the north coast...

The Northern Territory's first Long Service Medal.
December 1, 2003... Dick Butler was a prominent Northern Territory sportsman and was, for some 18 years, Head Gardener at Government House in Darwin. His life encompassed almost every aspect of Top End history, from Kahlin Compound to the Bombing of Darwin and...

The relevance of miscellany administrative, support and logistic units of the AIF a postscript.
December 1, 2003... Introduction In July 1918, the following Australian support, logistic and administration units were part of the Australian Corps on the Western Front: * 3rd (Army), 6th (Army) and 12th (Army) Field Artillery Brigade Ammunition Columns...

An Irish life in Austrian service: General Thomas von Plunket 1716-1779.
December 1, 2003... There were numerous officers of Irish descent serving in the Imperial Austrian Army during the 18th century and beyond and among these was Thomas von Plunket who was born in 1716 at Castle Plunket, County Roscommon, a son of John Plunket and...

George Cross gazetted for Iraq.
December 1, 2003... The Ministry of Defence announced on 30 October 2003 more than 300 honours for servicemen and women who served on Operation Telic, the British contribution to the war in Iraq. They included a George Cross, awarded to Trooper Christopher Finney...

Two Cross of Valour awards for Bali.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2003... Two West Australian men, Timothy Britten and Richard Joyes, were awarded the Cross of Valour for their efforts to rescue those in the Sari club. They become the fourth and fifth recipients of the Cross of Valour since its inception as part of...

The British Garrison in Australia 1788-1841: the great roads.(Military Supervision of Convict Work Gangs. Part IV)
December 1, 2003... The Great South Road 'In the year 1827, the road to Argyle was by the old Cowpasture road to the bridge at Camden. From there it turned south-easterly through the estates of John Macarthur (now Camden park), until the modern road from...

17th Leicestershire Regiment 1830-1836.(Illustration)
December 1, 2003... Green Tigers The Colonial Lilywhites 1688 Raised as Colonel Richard's Regiment. 1751 Designated 17th Regiment. 1757-1766 N America and W Indies. 1767-1775 ...

VC noticeboard.
December 1, 2003... Imperial Camel Corps The photograph of Temporary Brigadier-General Clement Leslie Smith VC MC appears on page 6 of this issue of Sabretache as part of Jim Underwood's article 'The Organisation of the Imperial Camel Brigade, 1916-1918'....

Australian flying corps attack on Baghdad.
December 1, 2003... He had volunteered to destroy communication lines in the rear of Turkish positions but disaster struck Captain Tom White, Australian Flying Corps, as he landed his sluggish Farman aircraft on the outskirts of Baghdad. He landed in the centre of...

Forlorn hope.
December 1, 2003... (The Sharpe Companion, Mark Adkin, Harper Collins Publishers 1998. Reproduced with permission of the publishers). The Concise Oxford Dictionary, defines "forlorn hope" as "a desperate enterprise" and gives its origin as the Dutch phrase...

Around the water cart.
December 1, 2003... The Victorian government is proposing to amend its control-of-weapons legislation. The Control of Weapons (Amendment) Regulation 2003 will make swords and crossbows "prohibited weapons". Apparently, this is in response to two attacks on people...

Murray Ewen. Colour patch: The men of the 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion 1940-1945.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... ISBN 085905 312 1 (2003 New), Case bound 928pp, illustrated, This unique book, beautifully presented, contains photos and service details of all the men on the 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion which reached Singapore three weeks...

Jonathan King. Gallipoli diaries: The Anzacs' own story day by day.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Kangaroo Press, hardcover, ISBN 0731812050, published November 2003, $49,95. The format of Gallipoli Diaries is simple but effective with 10 chapters and 240 entries. The chapters cover the landing on 25 April 1915 and the nine months that...

Jill Hamilton. From Gallipoli to Gaza: the desert poets of World War I.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... From Gallipoli to Gaza explores the history of the British campaign against the Turkish in World War I in a new and revealing way--through the eyes of the soldier-poets. Every piece of poetry included in this history was written by a soldier in...

Alex Kershaw. The Bedford Boys: One Small Town's D-Day Sacrifice.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster Australia 2003 $32.95. Trade paperback, 274 pp, b&w photos. The Editor phoned me recently and I mentioned that I hadn't yet started this book. He said "I know". And I said, "how can you tell?". He said, "because you aren't...

Philip L Armitage & Robert Rouse. Military and Other Buttons from the Berry Head Forts, 1794-1817.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Brixham Heritage Museum, Devon, UK ISBN 0-9545459-0-7. 44pp, card cover, 3.95 [pounds sterling]. This useful and reasonably priced booklet is the result of a series of archaeological excavations of the Berry Head Forts undertaken between...

Dr Albert Palazzo: Defenders of Australia: The History of the 3rd Division.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... When I was given a copy of this book to review for Sabretache, I looked forward to a good read about a Division that had considerable influence on my own military training. From my enlistment in to the CMF in 1963, through to the command of a 3...

Mike Hayes: Angry Skies. Recollections of Australian Combat Fliers.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... ABC Books Sydney 2003 $29.95 Trade paperback 216pp b&w photos. Right at the beginning of this book, the publisher noted that every attempt had been made to ensure that names, dates and facts are correct. Sadly, this was not the case. I was...

Lindsay Baly. Horseman, Pass By: The Australian Light Horse in World War I.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Simon & Schuster Kangaroo Press, paperback, ISBN 0731811747 published May 2003 $29.95. Lindsay Baly's Horseman, Pass By is the first general history of the Australian Light Horse in World War I since Ian Jones' The Australian Light Horse...

I D Skennerton. .45 Thompson Sub-machine Gun.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Arms and Militaria Press, PO Box 80, Labrador Qld 4215 Australia, 2003, ISBN 0-949749-46-X Paperback, 48 pp., 80 plus b & w drawings and photos, 210 x 274 mm. Price $10.95 plus post and pack. The famous "Tommy Gun" brought to heel,...

Ian V Hogg, revised by John Walter. Small Arms: Pistols and Rifles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Greenhill Books, London and Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 2003. ISBN 1-85367-563-6. Hardcover, landscape format, 22 x 15 cm, 160 pp., 205 b & w photos and black line drawings. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (UK) The well-deserved popularity of...

I D Skennerton .577 Snider-Enfield Rifles & Carbines: British Service Longarms 1866.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... c. 1880 Ian Skennerton Publishing, PO Box 80, Labrador Qld 4215 Australia, 2003. ISBN 0-949749-47-8. Hard cover with dust jacket, 16 x 25 cm, 242 pp., more than 170 illustrations (mainly b & w photos plus line drawings and 8 colour plates)....

I D Skennerton. British Empire Cadet & Training Rifles.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Arms and Militaria Press, PO Box 80, Labrador Qld 4215 Australia, 2003. ISBN 0-949749-45-1. Paperback, 48 pp., 70 plus b & w drawings and photos, 2 10 x 274 mm. Price $10.95 plus post and pack. Anyone contemplating the domain of cadet...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2003... Dear Editor Thank you for publishing my paper concerning Mission 101 in the Jane edition of Sobretache--I trust that it has been of interest to members. Since submitting the paper for publication, I have come across the text of the...