We commemorate the ANZACS
Some reflections. Lest We Forget
Category: Lest We Forget
Eureka Flag of the Southern Cross design and symbolic origins of Australian Nationalism
There is no controversy about the Eureka Flag. It is singularly an icon of Australian nationalism since 1854, symbolic of Australian national identity, Australian sovereign independence and of Australian individual freedoms. The Banner of the Ballaarat Reform League of Diggers Upon the…
11th of November 2018 marks 100 years since the first Armistice Day, the end of ‘The Great War’
I will never forget the armistice – it was a day of hard, smelly, nauseating work. Those of us assigned to pick up the bodies had to pair up and bring the bodies in on stretchers to where the graves were being…
Long Tân Cross home in Australia for Vietnam Veterans Day
The Australian War Memorial website states that Vietnam Veterans Day is commemorated on 18 August every year. The day was originally known as Long Tan Day, chosen to commemorate the men of D Company, 6RAR who fought in the Battle of…
Globalist Canberra hell-bent on betraying the ethic of Australia’s forefathers
Worldly patriotic Australians of good character were elected in 1901 to form Australia’s first national parliament. Australia’s Parliament was established in the heart of the nation’s industrious wealth and culture – Melbourne and it should have remained so. And this was the…
Commemorating the 163rd anniversary of the Eureka Rebellion
Sunday, December 3rd marks 163 years since the digger uprising by the gold miners at Ballaarat against the colonial authority of the British Empire in 1854. This brave stand taken by the miners was, as Henry Lawson articulated, a courageous expression of…
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…
1729 Australian soldiers died and 3723 injured in the Battle of Polygon Wood from 26 September 1917
Polygon Wood is a small forest between the towns of Zonnebeke and Ypres in Belgium’s Flanders region. The 4th and 5th divisions of the Australian Imperial Force were joined by seven British divisions. The attack on German defensive positions at Polygon Wood began…
Aug 5, Cowra Breakout by Japs in 1944
The farming town of Cowra is situated over 300km west of Sydney. During World War II, a large prisoner of war (POW) camp was constructed outside the town so as to be well away from the coast and the bulk of the…
Battle of Passchendaele 1917: When Britain’s Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig wargamed 475,000 good men to mud, blood and futility
‘I died in hell’ – Passchendaele, Belgium July 31, 1917 during The 3rd Battle of Ypres. Enemy men share a human cigarette A human calamity too overwhelming to explain, just as most of those who returned never spoke a word. Trauma (‘shell…
Battle of Pozières Ridge 1916: 6,800 “murdered…through the incompetence, callousness, and personal vanity of those high in authority”
This is quoted from Australian Lieutenant John Alexander Raws’ letter home from the Western Front at Pozières Ridge with the 23rd Battalion in August 1916 just before his 33rd birthday. Battle of Pozières Ridge lasting six weeks from July 23 through to…
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…
Jun 12: Blackhawk Goggles Coverup of the Army’s 18 guinea pigs – 21st Anniversary
Eighteen Australian elite soldiers and flight crew perished on this day in 1996; this now the 21st anniversary. We honour their service. Rest in Peace. The survivors, families, friends, colleagues and emergency responders shall never forget, and Australians must not. We owe…
Australian General Post Office heritage sold off by treacherous muslim Ahmed Fahour to the bloody Chinese
Australia’s rare and significant heritage buildings are being sold off by foreigners to foreigners. Lebanese muslim Ahmed Fahour, the overpaid underperforming egomaniac of Australia Post has been allowed to sell off Sydney’s much loved historic GPO building to a Chinese billionaire. Muslims…
America’s Korean War Mark I saw Australians conscripted by Menzies, not again Canberra!
So within Donald Trump’s first hundred days, the Pentagon has hoodwinked him to beating the drums of war against North Korea. The Pentagon is self-motivated by a raison d’être to justify its existence and relevance. It needs a war to be sustained.…
Australian troops should get out of the Middle East
Malcolm Turnbull at Australia’s Middle East Operations base at Al Minhad in the UAE on ANZAC Day. Turnbull has defiled ANZAC Day by promising to commit Australian troops for the “long term” in the Middle East, ostensibly to assist in the fight…
ANZAC Day
Gundagai 7th Light Horse Troop, ANZAC Day 2013 The Gundagai Memorial (Great War 1914-1918) carries the names of 1133 men and women from the town and surrounding district who enlisted. The 1911 Census shows that the population of the town at that time…
Australian Frontier War 1788-1934: A blinkered Dr Brendon Nelson says ‘Best We Forget’
Not political, just factual – Aborigines didn’t approve of British Colonisation. From 1788-1934, 146 turbulent years involving ongoing frontier battles took place across the continent between Aborigines and mainly British settlers. The main conflicts are officially documented. The fact is that military…
Antifa Commie Nazis dabble in fake history
Antifa Commie Nazi brave fighting methods One of the oddest trends in the so-called ‘anti fascism’ by the anarchists and Antifa generally, is the use of Australian servicemen images from the Second World War. They would falsify the character and the…
Fall of Singapore just British colonial fodder, expendable by Churchill just like Gallipoli – any lessons lads?
Winston Churchill sacrificed Australian soldiers in 1915 at Gallipoli (some 8,709) then again in 1941 at Singapore (14,972 in Changi Prison and the Japs slave Thai-Burma Railway) because we were expendable fodder. Any lessons lads? Australian soldiers imprisoned, tortured, beheaded and starved…
Acknowledging 1967 and how Tasmanians have rebuilt
We acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the devastating Hobart Bushfire. This bushfire memorial in Snug is in memory of the 64 who perished, the 900 injured, 1300 homes lost, the 7500 made homeless, the 80,000 livestock and the 652,000 acres burnt out,…
Gerard Henderson’s ignorant attempt to rewrite Australian History to some Liberal-Globalist agenda
History wars yet again. Globalist-Liberal Gerard Henderson on his propaganda channel The Sydney Institute, ignorantly slurs Ned Kelly as a “terrorist”. When some ideologue brands themselves an “institute”, you know they’re spruiking a propaganda agenda. In this case, a stooge of the…
Vietnam Veterans Day – honouring a life chapter, with reality checks
So Vietnamese bureaucrats have chucked a tết offensive against our 50th commemoration of the Battle of Long Tan. No war is going to go as planned, or home-comings, or memories or one day debriefs just to hand gear back and take the…
Commemorating our nation’s catastrophic loss at Pozières on The Somme
July 23, 1916: Well if Fromelles hadn’t killed you, Pozières surely would have. “Pozières, a small village in the Somme valley in France, was the scene of bitter and costly fighting for the 1st, 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions in mid-1916 defending…
Fromelles: Australians’ worst mass slaughter..and ordered by our Government!
This week marks 100 years since the World War I battles of Fromelles and Pozieres — two of the deadliest and most gruesome in Australia’s military history. Our decent honourable ordinary Australian men, trusting, signed up, trained, deployed and then were ordered…
Australia brings home 33 of its own from foreign war cemeteries after 50 years
Brave young Australians lost their lives in the Vietnam War (1962-75) and the Malayan Emergency (1950-63). Warrant Officer Kevin Conway, killed during the battle of Nam Dong in South Vietnam on July 6, 1964 was buried in Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore. …
Why Australia rejected the Japanese submarines in 2016
Out of respect for our grandparents who suffered at the hands of the Japs. In a nutshell, the French First World subs are superior, meeting all of our capability requirements and the French can be trusted. Japs still can’t be. The last…
ANZAC Day meaning
Our ANZAC Day is an annual dedication to our national remembrance of our Australians with New Zealanders past and present who have served, sacrificed, lost their lives in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations, as well as of the contribution and suffering…
Rekindling our Waltzing Matilda
Unidentified men of our 5th Division AIF partaking in cigarettes and resting by the side of the Montauban road, near Mametz, while enroute to the trenches. Most of the men are wearing Aussie sheepskin jackets and woollen gloves and are carrying…
We salute Aussie Diggers who sacrificed themselves against the overwhelming Nazi siege of Tobruk in 1941 for 241 days in the Libyan desert
Immigrant Arabs aren’t taught history – about how young brave Aussie farming lads signed up in World War II and ended up on the other side of the world in the north African desert digging trenches, defending Libya against tyranny, on principle.…
In response to requests for some good news…a Top Dog!
US Marine Gunnery Sergeant Christopher Willingham, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA is the proud owner of 12-year-old, Lucca, a German Shepherd / Belgian Malinois cross. Now retired, US Marine Corps service dog Lucca was trained to sniff out explosives and protect the Marine…
When low-life Japanese bombed Darwin and its hospitals
Australia remembers this day. Seventy four years ago Imperial Japan bombed Darwin. It was the first enemy attack on Australian soil in the history of the Commonwealth of Australia occurring at 9.58am on Thursday 19 February 1942. The then small Northern Territory…
Turncoat Turnbull to name his first captain’s pic of Jap subs for Australia ‘HMAS Bullwinkle’
The Liberal Party will stoop to the lowest depths to sell out Ordinary Australians – Free Trade unemployment, mass immigration from the Middle East and foreign ownership of Australian farms, ports, infrastructure, property and wealth. But the Liberal Party’s latest unelected PM…
Christmas is a time of giving and charity begins at home
This time of year is for the spirit of Christmas. Christmas is a time for family, friends and giving. For those Australians not on the breadline, many generously give donations to those in need. Sadly, more and more Ordinary Australians find themselves…
December 3: Eureka Stockade Day
Today marks the 161st anniversary of the storming by British troops of the Eureka Stockade at Ballaarat. Much has been written by all sorts of people about Eureka and its legacy – and of course, about the blue and white Flag of…
Angus Campbell, your chrony brass elites suck amongst our true Aussie Diggers
It’s a bloody insult to our Diggers! When limp-wristed brass under enemy fire hide in their tents only to later claim Gallantry and DSO’s for glitzy chest medal egos, no wonder our front-line soldiers puke, get plastered and depressed! Brigadier Oliver Jackson…
Apr 25: ANZAC Day
On the outset of then ‘The Great War’, ordinary Australian and New Zealand men answered the call. Blind loyalty today cannot be understood, so to respect our forefathers we honour their unquestioned heroism and sacrifice. How can we not? Gassed Now labeled…
Feb 19: Imperial Japanese Bombing of Darwin
Just before 10am on February 19, 1942, Darwin was attacked by the Japanese in the first of two air raids under the command of Naval Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, who had ten weeks earlier bombed Pearl Harbour. Darwin, the largest population centre in…
Vietnam Veterans must be remembered and respected
Today, August 18 2014 marks the 48th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan in 1966 during the Vietnam War between Australians and Vietnamese. The Australians who served in Vietnam were a blend of professional soldiers augmented by National Servicemen drafted through…