Sabretache articles from June 2006

Sabretache archives from June 2006

The tale of Plumer's pony.
June 1, 2006... This is an account of just one expedition by Colonial Horse in the second South African War. It was led by the future Field-Marshal Lord Plumer of Messines, who would command two Anzac Corps in the Y pres salient during a later war. There, the...

Adventurous roving natures Northern Territory volunteers of 1914.
June 1, 2006... Ninety years have passed since an immense wave of patriotic fervour was aroused throughout Australia upon the outbreak of World War 1. Young men from even the most remote and isolated outback settlements made their way into towns by whatever...

John Oscar Norton.(Biography)
June 1, 2006... John Oscar Norton was born at Montrose Scotland on 26 March 1838, the son of John Norton a Revenue Officer and Ann Norton (nee Binns). He joined the Royal Navy in 1853. He was present at the bombardment of Seaborg (in what is now Finland) in...

The 1915 Royal Commission into the Administration of the Liverpool Camp.
June 1, 2006... On 1 July 1915, Richard Beaumont Orchard MP, the federal member for Nepean in the House of Representatives, delivered a scathing attack on the mismanagement of affairs he felt existed at the military training camp at Liverpool, 35 km SW of...

John Profumo CBE.(Obituary)
June 1, 2006... John Dennis Profumo, CBE, the central figure in the 1963 Profumo Affair which contributed to the defeat of the Macmillan Conservative government the following year has died aged 91. In 1939 Profumo joined the Northamptonshire Yeomanry and...

Voyage to war.(George Leslie Davidson )
June 1, 2006... George Leslie Davidson was a 23 year old clerk when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 28 September 1915. Born in Melbourne in 1892, George came with his family to Western Australia in 1894; his father setting up a wood business in...

The Counter Intelligence Corps and its activities in Australia and New Guinea 1942-1945.
June 1, 2006... In the panoply of intelligence agencies that operated in New Guinea during World War II, few are as intriguing and prone to criticism as the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). (1) The CIC had its origin in the Corps of Intelligence Police...

Lance-Sergeant Haane Manahi DCM.
June 1, 2006... It has been reported that Defence Minister Phil Goff has this week asked Buckingham Palace to reconsider the decision to not review the award of a VC to Lance-Sergeant Haane Manahi. This request is worthy of comment. Mr Goff can be commended...

The last strike.(Royal Australian Air Force against Japanese)
June 1, 2006... Prepared by one who took part, these notes outline the last offensive action taken by the Royal Australian Air Force in the 1939-45 war--a strike operation by Beaufort aircraft of No 71 Wing against Japanese installations at Kiarivu in Northern...

Obituary--Barry John Videon.(Obituary)
June 1, 2006... The Victorian Branch of the Military Historical Society of Australia laments the passing of another Branch stalwart, indeed a pioneer of the Society, in Wing Commander Barry John Videon. Born in Morgan, South Australia on 15 August 1925 Barry...

Obituary--David Patrick Radford.(Obituary)
June 1, 2006... David Patrick Radford was born at Warwick, Queensland on 9 May 1921 and died in Brisbane on 29 March :2006. On the outbreak war in 1939 he was serving in the Citizen Military Forces and soon found himself guarding critical installations,...

Around the Water Cart.
June 1, 2006... Joe says: In the March 2006 issue of Sabretache, I said I would continue the story of the United States bugle call, Taps, by describing how it came to be associated with military funerals. Here goes: In 1862, a soldier of a battery of the...

Kristen Alexander. Clive Caldwell, Air Ace.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Kristen Alexander. Clive Caldwell air ace, Allen & Unwin Clive Caldwell was officially attributed with 27 1/2 victories and became Australia's highest scoring fighter pilot in World War II. In addition, he became an ace in both the Middle...

Bilcliffe, John. Irreproachable Character--The Award of the Royal Marines Meritorious Service Medal.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Bilcliffe, John. Irreproachable Character--The Award of the Royal Marines Meritorious Service Medal, Royal Marine Historical Society, 2005, The Gift Shop, Royal Marines Museum, Eastney, Southsea, Hampshire PO4 9PX, 30 [pounds sterling] The...

Michael Canfield (Editor). Voices of War.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Michael Canfield (Editor). Voices of War, hardback, ISBN 0733620507, 541 p., $60.00 Stories drawn from The Australians at War Film Archive. The Archive includes interviews from a hundred years of our wars, conflicts and peacekeeping...

Jeff Hatwell. No Ordinary Determination: The Story of Percy Black and Harry Murray of the 1st AIF, F.A.C.P.(New releases)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Jeff Hatwell. No ordinary determination: The story of Percy Black & Harry Murray of the 1st AIF, F.A.C.P, 2005, ISBN 1920731415, paperback, 368 pages, $29.95 Percy Black and Harry Murray were extraordinary men who made enormous...

Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson. In The Face of the Enemy: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson. In the face of the Enemy: The complete history of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand, HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, paperback, ISBN 1869505220, 272 pages. It is nearly 40 years since the Military...

Alan Powell. The Third Force: Angau's New Guinea War, 1942-46.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Alan Powell. The Third Force: Angau's New Guinea War, 1942-46, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2003. Alan Powell's book is well named and justifiably puts forward the point that aside from the Allied and Japanese forces arrayed against...

Ian Dear. Sabotage and Subversion: The SOE and OSS at War.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Ian Dear. Sabotage and Subversion: The SOE and OSS at War, Cassell Military Paperbacks, London, 1996, 224 pages, maps, photographs, $19. Exploits of undercover operators in World War II remain fascinating to modern readers, and the...

David Wilson The Brotherhood of Airmen: The Men and Women of the RAAF in Action 1914-Today.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... David Wilson The Brotherhood of Airmen: The Men and Women of the RAAF in Action 1914-Today, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2005, ISBN 1 74114 333 0, pb, 242 pp, 33 photographs. David Wilson has written widely in the field of RAAF history. His...

Garry Cooper and Robert Hillier. Sock it to 'Em Baby: Forward Air Controller in Vietnam.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Garry Cooper and Robert Hillier. Sock it to 'em baby: forward air controller in Vietnam, Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin, 2006, xviii, 318 p., ill., ports., ISBN1741148499, index I could not put Sock it to 'em baby down which I read at one...