November 1914 – En route for the Great War as a correspondent. We have two battalions of infantry on board. A topsy-turvy force this, for the Brigadier, General MacLaurin, has ...
Battles and operations
The Dardanelles Campaign
The chase and sinking of the ‘Bismarck’
Book Review: The Raider Kormoran
Book Review: Atlantic Odyssey
Title: Atlantic Odyssey Author: Michael Thwaites Publisher: Self-published This is a fascinating account of a little-known aspect (in Australia at least) of the Battle of the Atlantic, seen through the ...
Letters: More on Australians at Zeebrugge
One last contribution to the subject of Australians at Zeebrugge. In 1914 Engineer Lieutenant Ronald C. Boddie, Royal Navy, came to Australia as a member of the staff of the ...
Book Review: Bombers and Battleships
Letters: Beattie of the St Nazaire raid
A small point that may be of interest to your readers (St Nazaire – The Greatest Commando Raid of WW II) is that Lieutenant Commander (as he then was) Beattie ...