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‘Bimbashi’ Mcpherson: A Life in Egypt

Walter Burroughs · Mar 1, 2022 ·

By Walter Burroughs A casual browse through the bookshelves of opportunity shops can produce some surprises. Disorganised, with no rhyme or reason to subject matter, it is as well to ...

Mission Creep in the Dardanelles

A.N. Other · Sep 27, 2021 ·

By CMDR Max Speedy DSC RAN Rtd Captain Arthur Edward Dunn CBE RD ADC RNR was married to my great-aunt and as a result I have his voluminous papers and ...

The New Guinea Diary of LCDR Clarence Hansby Read, RANR 1914-1915

Editorial Staff · Mar 22, 2016 ·

The manuscript of Read’s diary was acquired by the Mitchell Library in 1919 for the sum of £30. It lay undisturbed for nearly a century until transcribed into digital format ...

The Awkward Art of Getting Ashore and Off Again

A.N. Other · Dec 21, 2015 ·

By Geoff Barnes The author, a keen amateur historian and model maker, gathered most of the information used in this article from research undertaken in building a diorama of the ...

Letter: Picket Boats

Letter Writer · Sep 20, 2015 ·

This letter was received from our ever helpful member Leyland Wilkinson who has recently moved from the Central Coast to Grafton.   As always the recent issue (June 2015) of ...

Able Seaman Frank Boston: Covering the Gallipoli Landings

A.N. Other · Mar 23, 2015 ·

This story first appeared in the April 2014 edition of Chatterbox, a magazine published by the Brisbane Water (NSW) Branch of Legacy and is reproduced with their kind permission. Frank ...

Sweeping the Dardanelles – Naval actions prior to the Anzac landing at Gallipoli

Turner, Mike · Mar 23, 2015 ·

By Mike Turner  On 18 March 1915 three Allied battleships were sunk by a line of 20 Turkish mines laid by the small Turkish minelayer Nusret in the Dardanelle Straits. ...

Gallipoli and Other Stories, by Uncle Bill

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2013 ·

  William Kinnersley was born in Wales on 20 September 1896 and died aged 95 on 17 May 1992 at Collaroy, NSW. After Royal Naval service during the First World ...

Gallipoli 1915

A.N. Other · Mar 10, 2011 ·

One of our long standing members, Norman Rivett, has recently unearthed a valuable original manuscript of a first hand account by a member of the Royal Naval Division which served ...

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A short history of the RAN Bridging Train (1915-1917)

Swinden, Greg · Sep 10, 2007 ·

Editor’s note: This article was written in 1987, when Greg Swinden was a Midshipman at the Australian Defence Force Academy. In September 2007 he was a Lieutenant Commander, based in ...

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