Sabretache articles from December 2004

Sabretache archives from December 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... Sabretache is indexed on APAIS The Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS) is a subject index to scholarly articles in the social sciences and humanities published in Australia, and to selected periodical articles, conference...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2004... Editor I particularly enjoyed the March 2004 edition of edition of Sabretache. It was pleasing to see the excellent article on the Australians at First Alamein by a former colleague, Craig Tibbitts. I was very impressed with Graham...

Out of Empire: an introduction to the story of the Australian Instructional Corps, 1921-1955.
December 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The story of the Australian Instructional Corps (AIC) is much more than just an account of the life of the Corps as the permanent force posting unit for the Warrant Officer Instructors of the Australian Army from 1921 to 1955....

"Locust", "Whiting" and New Britain: Guy Black's covert war with M and Z Units.
December 1, 2004... Since the end of World War II the covert war in New Guinea and adjacent islands has been the subject of numerous accounts from historians and those who served there. This article seeks to discuss the experiences of one man--an accountant by...

'And the Sphinx smiled' Aubrey and Hilda Abbott, Darwin, 1937-46.
December 1, 2004... A simple key, with a fancy handle bearing the engraved name, date and details of the event, links the opening of a popular wartime hotel in Darwin with a marriage proposal on the Nile two decades earlier--the beginning of a strong partnership...

Lieutenant Douglas Stephen Freeman 15th Battalion (Queensland & Tasmania) AIF.
December 1, 2004... Douglas Stephen Freeman, the fourth son of William Freeman and his wife Lucy Rose, of "Clodagh," Beresford Road, Rose Bay, Sydney, was born at New Canterbury Rd, Marrickville, Sydney, on the 18 March 1876. He was a cousin (mother's side) to...

Major Sei Hashida's visit.
December 1, 2004... Major Sei Hashida, an army officer serving on the Imperial Japanese General Staff, visited Australia in 1941 on a two-month visa issued by the British Consul at Tokyo. This was only a few months after Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the...

Kenneth (Ken) Richard White 22 July 1928-5 April 2004.(Obituary)
December 1, 2004... Older members of the Military Historical Society of Australia will remember Ken White as Secretary/Treasurer of the ACT Branch and Secretary of Federal Council. We first met in Second Year (now Year 8) at the Famous Fort Street Boys High...

Victoria Cross noticeboard.
December 1, 2004... Canadian VC group for sale A British collector has bid $C319,000 for the Victoria Cross group awarded to Corporal Fred Topham of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion for gallantry in Germany in 1945. The group is a major asset in the will...

Around the Water Cart.
December 1, 2004... Joe says: In a recent "Water Cart" (Sabretache, March 2004, p 57), I mentioned that it seemed that the last British soldier to be executed was Pre J Itumo of the King's African Rifles (KAR), in 1953. Our Western Australian member, Dr Cecil...

Neil McDonald. Chester Wilmot reports. Broadcasts that shaped World War II.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Neil McDonald. Chester Wilmot reports. Broadcasts that shaped World War II, ABC Books, 2004, hardcover, dust jacket, 401 pp., $49.95. The subtitle to this book is particularly apt. Wilmot was an Australian, reporting the actions of...

John Nunneley and Kazuo Tamayama. Tales by Japanese soldiers.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... John Nunneley and Kazuo Tamayama. Tales by Japanese soldiers, Casell & Co, 2000, ISBN 0-89141-711-7, 240 pp. hardcover There was a time when I would have had zero interest in reading a book concerning the Japanese side of the war, but...

John Walter. Guns of the Third Reich.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... John Walter. Guns of the Third Reich, Greenhill Books, London and Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 2003, ISBN 1-85367-598-9. Hard cover with dust jacket, 256 pp., 32 b & w illustrations, 16 x 24 cm. UK 19.99 [pounds sterling] Congratulations...

Ian Jones, MBE. Malice aforethought: a history of booby traps from World War One to Vietnam.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Ian Jones, MBE. Malice aforethought: A history of booby traps from World War One to Vietnam, Greenhill Books, London and Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 2004, ISBN 1-85367-613-6, hard cover with dust jacket, 270 pp, 60-plus b & w photos and...

John Walter. Military handguns of two World Wars.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... John Walter. Military handguns of two World Wars. Greenhill Books, London and Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 2003, ISBN 1-85367-557-1, hard cover, landscape 22 x 15 cm, 144 pp., 158 b & w photos and drawings, UK 14.99 [pounds sterling] ...

Ian D Skennerton. 7.62 X 39 mm SKS Carbine.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Ian D Skennerton. 7.62 X 39 mm SKS Carbine, Arms and Militaria Press, PO Box 80. Labrador Qld 4215, 2004, ISBN 0-949749-61-3. paperback, 36 pp., 50 plus b & w illustrations. 22 x 14 cm. $A7.70 plus p&p This interesting slim, but...