Sabretache articles from September 2000

Sabretache archives from September 2000

Tailing the Boer--Australian mobile operations in the Boer War (1).
September 1, 2000... After 100 years of the Australian Army's existence it is possible to see the century of sacrifice in perspective. Several patterns are apparent and although they cannot be used as predictors they provide interesting comparisons: * By the...

`Everything on its belly'--feeding the first AIF problems and solutions of Australian Army rationing and catering in the First World War (1).
September 1, 2000... `An army trains, fights and does everything on its belly!' Lieutenant R L Andrews, Chief Messing Officer, AIF, 1919 Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with having said: `An army marches on its stomach.' Tired, trite, but true. But still very...

Vivian Statham, nee Bullwinkel--Eulogy at State Funeral, St Georges Cathedral, Perth, Monday 10 July 2000.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... As we are gathered here to dwell upon the passing of Vivian Statham, we must surely feel ourselves diminished. A unique Australian has been taken from us and whether we were friend or acquaintance, colleague or distant admirer, each one of us...

An Unrewarded Hero. (Book Review).
September 1, 2000... Russell Mehan, An Unrewarded Hero, Westralian Publishers, 17 Cador Court, Carine, WA 6020, 104 pp with maps and photographs, $21.90 plus $2.50 postage and handling (inc GST) This tribute to Lieutenant Alan Haddy, one of the 2/16th...

Around the water cart.
September 1, 2000... Among the material recently made available at Australian Archives Sydney office is a box of lantern-slides produced by Wing Commander (later Sir Lawrence) Wackett's unit at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1924 and 1928. They appear to relate...