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A Non-Combatant at War: Palestine, Greece and Crete 1941 – Pt 1

A.N. Other · Mar 6, 2024 ·

Dr. Richmond Jeremy, OBE MB ChM FRCP FRACP 1899 – 1995 Notes made by Dr. Jeremy were transcribed and published in 1998 by his son Richmond Jeremy. With permission of ...

Book Review: Where the Flaming Hell are we?

Book reviewer · Dec 27, 2023 ·

Where the Flaming Hell are we? This new wartime history by Craig Collie paints a vivid picture of Australian and New Zealanders desperately fighting in Greece and Crete and as ...

The Admiral was a Lady

Kingsley Perry · Dec 16, 2023 ·

By Geoff Barnes  This article first appeared in the Australian National Maritime Museum Newsletter All Hands Issue No 1161 dated September 2021 and is reproduced by kind permission of the ...

A Magnificent Greek Warship

Editorial Staff · Dec 7, 2022 ·

Found in a Charity Shop  Within the folds of gentle green hills and quiet countryside of mid-Wales, far removed from the sea, lies St David’s College Lampeter, part of Britain’s ...

A Disproportionate Consequence: The Significance of Effective Joint Operations Doctrine and Technology on the Battle of Cape Matapan

A.N. Other · Mar 22, 2016 ·

By MIDN Conor Byrne, RAN This essay from the 53rd New Entry Officer Course intake won the Naval History Society prize.  Introduction In modern naval doctrine the importance of maintaining ...

Book Review: The Forgotten Flotilla – The Craft of Heroes Greece, Crete & North Africa 1941

Book reviewer · Jun 18, 2015 ·

The Forgotten Flotilla – The Craft of Heroes Greece, Crete & North Africa 1941 by Michael James Bendon. Published by Ligare Book Printers, Sydney, 2014. Landscape format hardcover of 198 ...

The Battle of Cape Matapan

A.N. Other · Mar 16, 2015 ·

By MIDN John McClelland – winner of the Naval Historical Society Prize. John McClelland grew up on a sheep property near Bendigo in central Victoria .His primary and secondary education ...

The Greek Campaign 1941

A.N. Other · Sep 18, 1998 ·

The debate will never cease on the wisdom or otherwise of the decision by Churchilll’s war cabinet to send troops to assist the Greek Army in 1941. Field Marshal Earl ...

The Athenian Trireme – Design and History

Bowen, L · Dec 29, 1995 ·

In very early times in the Mediterranean the open and oar propelled fighting ship was the Galley. At the time of the siege of Troy the normal large Greek rowing vessel ...

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A Visit to Piraeus, Greece 1941

Bracegirdle, Warwick, DSC, Commander, RAN (Rtd) · Jun 21, 1990 ·

After the naval battle of Matapan most of the fleet returned to Alexandria to replenish supplies. Two cruisers of the 7th Cruiser Squadron HMS Ajax and HMAS Perth did not ...

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