Sabretache articles from June 2004

Sabretache archives from June 2004

An open letter to members of the MHSA.(Editorial)(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... Dear Member The editor of Sabretache has kindly allowed me this space to speak directly to members of the MHSA about the dealings and deliberations of the Federal Council over the past 12 months. The resounding NO vote, returned by the...

MHSA Biennial Conference 2004: NSW Labour Day long weekend 2 to 4 October 2004 Albury-Wodonga.
June 1, 2004... The 2004 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 fall this year It will be 150 years since the first Victoria Cross; 90...

'Uncle Stan' and the Staff Corps.(Biography)
June 1, 2004... Sir Stanley Savige, KBE CB DSO MC ED had a long and distinguished record in both world wars, but clashed with his fellow officers almost as frequently as with the enemy. He is remembered as a long-standing contributor to the feud between the...

The Forlorn Hope and Australia.
June 1, 2004... The extract from The Sharpe Companion on the role of the Forlorn Hope, which appeared in the December 2003 issue of Sabretache, recalls Australian connections with the Forlorn Hope at one of the most famous, and bloodiest, actions of the...

Rabaul 1942: the sacrifice of John Eshott Carr (1922-1942).
June 1, 2004... Anzac Day may mark Australia's birth as a nation, but the sacrifice of young Australians on islands like Ambon, New Britain and Timor forged our sense of identity with the Southeast Asian region. In the Dardanelles in 1915, Australians had...

The Queenscliff Mysteries 1942.
June 1, 2004... The Geelong Advertiser of 7 July 1990 carried an article by local writer Jack Loney on German and Japanese activities in Bass Strait. He mentioned a 1938 Japanese naval chart of the Geelong region that an army private had found in a tunnel at...

Anthony (Tony) Harold Rudd.(South Australian Branch )(Obituary)
June 1, 2004... Members are advised of the untimely death of South Australian Branch member and Past President Anthony (Tony) Harold Rudd of Twin Waters, Queensland, formerly of Beaumont South Australia, on 16 January 2004 aged 58 years. Tony did much to...

Ken White.(Obituaries)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 1, 2004... Members will be saddened by the news that former long-term member Ken White, who had been ill for some time, died on 5 April 2004. Ken was a long-standing member of the Society's NSW Branch and along with Clem Sargent, Ken Lyon and other...

'The Sacking of Albany'--the image of the Boer War veteran in Australia.
June 1, 2004... On Saturday morning, 31 May 1902, Australia's acting Minister for Defence, former New South Wales Premier Sir William Lyne, boarded the troopship Aurania in Port Phillip Bay. The Aurania was bringing home the largest contingent of Australian...

Military Historical Society of Australia: 2004 Biennial Conference 2 to 4 October 2004 Army Museum Bandiana.(Conference Program and Registration Form)
June 1, 2004... Conference Theme The 2004 Conference theme is recognition of several significant events in military history whose anniversary occurs this year. Thus, the program includes presented papers which recognize the 150th anniversary of the...

"Listed for the Connaught Rangers": analysis of a military painting.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... One of the most well known military artists of the 19th century was Lady Elizabeth Butler. Her painting depicting the charge of the Scots Grays at Waterloo ("Scotland Forever") is perhaps one of the most widely recognized British military...

Interesting award of a British War Medal for service during WW1.
June 1, 2004... Over the years there has been considerable debate by medal enthusiasts as to whether there was any entitlement to a BWM for home service during WW1. Some years ago I purchased the following interesting medal group: Queen Victoria Jubilee...

A memory of disbanded Irish regiments.
June 1, 2004... On a summer's day in 1922 ten regular infantry battalions paraded in garrison towns across England, and led by their bands, pipes and drums, the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the battalions escorted their Colours to the nearest...

4th King's Own Regiment 1831-1837: Barrel's Blues.
June 1, 2004... Background 1680 Raised for service in Tangier as 2nd Tangier Regt. 1688 Designated The Queen's Regt. 1684-1697 Service in England, Ireland, Netherlands. 1703-1711 Service as Marines. 1715 ...

AE 2 Prisoners of the Turks.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2004... It was about 2.30 am on 25 April 1915, while Australian and New Zealand troops were being assembled to land at Anzac Cove, that Australia's submarine, AE2, entered the Dardanelles with orders to "run amok". For several days it roamed around the...

From Richard Pelvin, Stirling ACT.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2004... 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 Wilson's 'The...

Victoria Cross noticeboard.
June 1, 2004... Honours and Awards (Recommendations: First World War) The Australian War Memorial has made available online at www.awm.qov.au the database providing details of recommendations for honours and awards made to Australians serving with the AIF...

Around the water cart.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... In the March 2004 issue of Sabretache, Joe referred to the rank of W03, as mentioned in a letter to the Army newspaper. A further letter to Army reports that the rank "was adopted by the British Army in 1938... (and) was abolished in 1946"...

Murray Ewen. Colour Patch: The men of the 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion 1940-1945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Murray Ewen. Colour Patch: The men of the 2/4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion 1940-1945, ISBN 085905 312 1 (2003 New), Case bound 928 pp, illustrated, 3kg packed Orders to M Ewan 4 Hare Court, Willagee WA 6156 email hintock@space.net.au ...

Ian Gill. Fremantle to France; 11th Battalion AIF, 1914-1919.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Ian Gill. Fremantle to France; 11th Battalion AIF, 1914-1919, 637 pages, Battalion chronology and statistics, biographicals on award recipients, letters and diaries, Honour Roll, POW Roll and statements, Embarkation list, Officer Roll, Shipping...

Chamberlain, Max & Droogleever, Robin. (eds)The War With Johnny Boer: Australians in the Boer War, 1899-1902.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Chamberlain, Max & Droogleever, Robin. (eds)The War With Johnny Boer: Australians in the Boer War, 1899-1902, AMHP, The War Book Shop, (www.warbooks.com.au) 13 Veronica Place, Loftus NSW 2232, 02-9542-6771 Sydney, 2003. illus, maps, glossary,...

Peter Cochrane. The Western Front 1916-1918.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Peter Cochrane. The Western Front 1916-1918 ABC Books 2004. Hardback, 138 pages, b&w photos Photographs are a powerful and poignant means of representing the experience of war. From the very beginning of the Great War, the Australian...

United States of America's Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients and their official citations.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... United States of America's Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients and their official citations. 4th Edition, 2002, Highland House II, Columbia Heights, MN, ISBN 0 9644590 3 5, $A62.46 (incl p&p) In 1949, the Department of Army, and in...

James Hugh Donohoe. The British Army in Australia, 1788-1870, Index of personnel, 1996.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... James Hugh Donohoe. The British Army in Australia, 1788-1870, Index of personnel, 1996 ISBN 1 875770 02 3 (paperback) 1 875770 02 1 (microfiche) and 1 875770 03 X (disk), Available from the author PO Box 681, SPIT JUNCTION NSW 2088 $25.00 incl....

Butler, D.M., Argent, A., and Shelton, J.J., The Fight Leaders.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... Butler, D.M., Argent, A., and Shelton, J.J., The Fight Leaders, Australian Military History Publications, The War Book Shop, (www.warbooks.com.au) 13 Veronica Place, Loftus NSW 2232, 02-9542-6771 Sydney, 178 pages, b&w photographs and maps ...