Sabretache articles from March 2004

Sabretache archives from March 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... The March edition is 64 pages and most readers should receive this issue by the end of the month. For the last few years Sabretache has arrived in reader's hands near then end of the month but it is hoped that from the June edition the journal...

MHSA Biennial Conference 2004: NSW Labour Day Long Weekend 2 to 4 October 2004 Albury-Wodonga.
March 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...

Australians in the first battle of El Alamein July 1942.
March 1, 2004... Dear Mother and Dad, We have been in action in the desert again, and it has been action of a kind the like of which we have never seen before--Tobruk was a picnic compared to this, it is real war, with the spurs on... (2) Private...

eLa Guerra Marina 1936-39: the Spanish Civil War at sea.
March 1, 2004... The Spanish Civil War was, one of the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century. It is also one of the most studied. Literal mountains of paper and oceans of ink have been expended in examining almost every aspect of the war, in all of the world's...

The organisation of the Imperial Camel Brigade, 1916-1918 Part 2.
March 1, 2004... As described in Part 1 (1), by the end of 1917 the Imperial Camel Brigade's order of battle had settled down into the structure that it was to retain until its disbandment in June 1918. The second part of this paper examines the establishments...

The British Garrison in Australia 1788-1841 military supervision of convict work gangs--Part V.
March 1, 2004... Introduction This is the final Part in the series of articles on convict work gangs which have appeared in Sabretache since March 2003. Included in this Part are: * A map showing the locations of known stockades with a legend...

Major General Timothy Frederick Cape, CB, CBE, DSO: 5 August 1915--20 December 2003.(Obituary)(Obituary)
March 1, 2004... Timothy Frederick Cape, the son of Charles Scarvell Cape, Solictor, of Sydney, and Maude Want Cape, was born at Vaucluse. He was the youngest of three children and in a line of colonists who first came to NSW from the United Kingdom in 1821. He...

Victoria Cross noticeboard.(Obituary)
March 1, 2004... David Harvey, 1946-2004: historian of the Victoria Cross, David Harvey, author of Monuments to Courage died 4 March 2004 aged 58. David's main concern was to find the final resting place of all VC recipients. His research took him to 50...

Around the water cart: 'Joe Furphy'.(Correction Notice)
March 1, 2004... Correction: There was a small omission from Around the Water Cart in December 2003 Sabretache,. At the foot of page 42, the concluding sentences of an item about war graves at Gallipoli should have read: The first boat loads of...