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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Australian Defence Force personnel, the very instant they graduate, deserve national government recognition of their commitment to duty, service and country. Every single one of our Australian Defence Force personnel, irrespective of corps, role, rank, contractual obligation, posting, hours per week, deserves…
Simpson and his Donkey at Gallipoli, May 1915 Jack Simpson Kirkpatrick is well recognised as one of Australia’s most famous, and best-loved military heroes. On the 25th April 1915 he, along with the rest of the Australian and New Zealand contingent landed…
Australia’s Navy is spending millions on its current recruitment drive on Sydney Harbour that it calls a Fleet Review, complete with fireworks, enemy spy ships and patriotic speeches by pompous VIPs bleating on about representing Australian identity and ideals. Our Navy has…
Today on Australia’s Vietnam Veterans Day, the Australia First Party acknowledges the selfless service and sacrifice of Australia’s men and women who served our nation during the Vietnam War and who took part in various capacities in all conflicts under Australian government…
No wonder the Royal Australian Navy is losing good people and struggling to recruit. Get wounded or injured on active duty and consistent Navy policy legacy is to ex-communicate, abandon you and go legal against you. Thanks sailor for enlisting, now since…
Typical bloody government. You serve your country, somehow manage to survive if you’re lucky, but for the rest of your civilian life the government of the country you defended, won’t even give you the friggen time of day. Royal Australian Navy veteran…
