Greatest Light Horse Triumph at Beersheba 1917: dehydrated Aussie soldiers and their whalers charged at Johnny Turk’s defensive barrage

One’s great great uncle’s generation of men were the best Australia has produced, thus far. Subsequent generations of Australians could only imagine; but we mortals should read, learn and must never forget.  Mine was blown to bits by the Germans at The…

Battle of Fromelles 1916: 5,533 Australian casualties in one night in “that Fleurbaix stunt”

July 19, 1916 saw the worst single loss of life in Australian military history.   Australia’s ‘Cobbers’ sculpture on the other side of the world, poignantly dominates Australian Memorial Park surrounded by farmland along Rue Delval outside the French town of Fromelles.  It…