Sabretache articles from June 2005

Sabretache archives from June 2005

Clarence Tasman Mummery MC.
June 1, 2005... Clarence Tasman Mummery, known as Tas, was born 4 November 1894 at Zeehan; the third of Isabelle McCreadie (nee Dods) and Christopher Stephen Mummery's four children. Tas was born during the six years his parents lived in Tasmania. When the...

A prison of our own: the AIF Detention Barracks 1917-1919.(Australian Imperial Force)
June 1, 2005... On 1 November 1917, Captain Griffiths of the AIF arrived at HM Prison Lewes, in the town of Lewes, near Brighton on the Sussex coast, to take control of the prison. Having signed over the prison from HM Prison Service to the AIF, Captain...

Air Marshal Gration accepts another term as Society Patron.
June 1, 2005... Air Marshal Gration AO AFC enlisted in the RAAF in 1953 and graduated with distinction from RAAF College Point Cook in 1956 as a pilot officer General Duties Branch. Between 1957 and 1970 he served in a variety of flying and staff appointments,...

Some logistical challenges for the Japanese in the New Guinea campaign, 1942-1945.
June 1, 2005... Logistics played a key role in the defeat of the Japanese forces in New Guinea during the Second World War. In the awful conditions of that battlefield, a lack of supply led to a fighting force that was wracked with disease, close to starvation...

Victoria cross for gallantry in Iraq: British soldier decorated.
June 1, 2005... On 18 March 2005, Private Johnston Gideon Beharry, C Company, 1st Battalion, the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, the driver of a Warrior fighting vehicle, who in six weeks faced two deadly ambushes in southern Iraq, was awarded the first...

Victoria Cross Noticeboard.
June 1, 2005... VC for Iraq Elsewhere in this issue is the full story of the award of the Victoria Cross to British Army Private Johnston Gideon Beharry. Victoria Cross Noticeboard had mentioned in the June 2004 column that a soldier from the Princess of...

Around the Water Cart: 'Joe Furphy'.
June 1, 2005... Joe says: Very glad the trivial gossip peddled from around my water cart didn't have to "compete" with the excellent papers from last year's Biennial Conference in the March issue of Sabretache! Anyway, I'm back, so here we go again. As we have...

Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Mollison. Long Tan & Beyond: Alpha Company 6 RAR in Vietnam 1966-67.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Mollison. Long Tan & Beyond: Alpha Company 6 RAR in Vietnam 1966-67, 430 pages with more than 100 illustrations many in full colour, hbk $44.00, pbk $33.00, postage $8.00 anywhere in Australia for up to two books,...

James Hurst. Game to the Last, The Eleventh Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... James Hurst. Game to the Last, The Eleventh Australian Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli, ISBN: 0195553314, 2005, 376 pages, $59.95 ACT Branch member James Hurst has written the story of the men of the West Australian 11th Infantry Battalion,...

Rod Pratt & Jeff Hopkins-Weise. Brisbane's 1st Battalion, 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment Detachments, 1860-66.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Rod Pratt & Jeff Hopkins-Weise. Brisbane's 1st Battalion, 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment Detachments, 1860-66, ISBN 0958084815, soft-cover, A5, 158 pp, $30 ($34 incl p&p) Jeff Hopkins-Weise & Rod Pratt, Brisbane's 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment...

Peter Stanley. Quinn's Post.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Peter Stanley. Quinn's Post, Allen and Unwin, pbk, ISBN 1 74114 332 2, $29.95 Any work by the Australian War Memorial's principal historian, Peter Stanley carries an expectation of high quality. In this case he has ventured into an area...

Hew Strachan, The First World War: A New Illustrated History.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Hew Strachan, The First World War: A New Illustrated History, London: Simon and Schuster, 2003. xviii + 350 pp, photographs, maps, index. $50.00. Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford, has been involved in number...

C.D. Coulthard-Clark. Australia's military map-makers: The Royal Australian Survey Corps 1915-1996.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... C.D. Coulthard-Clark. Australia's military map-makers: The Royal Australian Survey Corps 1915-1996, Oxford University Press, 2000, 247 pp. Maps are vital tools to the soldier and a military truism is that there is no such thing as looking...

Paul Ham, Kokoda.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Paul Ham, Kokoda, HarperCollins, Pymble, 2004, 602 pages, maps, photographs. On Remembrance Day last year Paul Ham's 600 page book on the Kokoda, Milne Bay, Gona, Buna, and Sanananda campaigns was launched in Sydney. It was released a...

Colin Funch Linguists in Uniform: The Japanese Experience.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Colin Funch Linguists in Uniform: The Japanese Experience ISBN 07326 2243 3 (2003 New) paperback 303 pp, illustrated Published by Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University This book fills a hole in Australian Military History being the...

Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Mollison. Long Tan & Beyond: Alpha Company 6 RAR in Vietnam 1966-67.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Mollison. Long Tan & Beyond: Alpha Company 6 RAR in Vietnam 1966-67, 430 pages with more than 100 illustrations many in full colour, hbk $44.00, pbk $33.00, postage $8.00 anywhere in Australia for up to two books,...

Notes from the Editor on contributions to Sabretache.
June 1, 2005... The ideal medium for submissions is electronic--preferably in Microsoft Word, although any of the common word processing applications in .rtf format are acceptable--on 3.5 inch IBM-compatible floppy disc or CD accompanied by a hard copy. Please...