By Geoff Barnes The following story by Geoff Barnes who created a diorama of the RAN Bridging Team at Suvla Bay in 1915 was first published as a blog by ...
RAN Bridging Train
Occasional Paper 183: The RAN Bridging Train – Dry Land Sailors
The Bridging Train which existed as a small but highly effective unit of the RAN operated essentially on dry land as field engineers between 1915 and 1917. They served with ...
The New Guinea Diary of LCDR Clarence Hansby Read, RANR 1914-1915
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
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 ...
A short history of the RAN Bridging Train (1915-1917)
Navy Blue Anzacs – The RAN in the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign
Book Review: First In Last Out – The Navy at Gallipoli
First in, Last out – the Navy at Gallipoli By T R Frame and G J Swinden This is a timely book. It is 75 years since the landings at ...
Dry Land Sailors – The Navy at Gallipoli
Australian Naval History on 22 December 1916
50 personnel from the RANBT, under CMDR L. S. Bracegirdle, RAN, landed at El Arish on the Sinai Peninsula, to build a pier to land supplies in support of the ...
Australian Naval History on 13 January 1916
189 men of the RANBT, then encamped at Mudros on the island of Imbros, mutinied over lack of pay and refused to muster for work. They were placed under arrest ...
Australian Naval History on 26 December 1915
The RAN Bridging Train was transferred temporarily to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps for operations against the Turks in Sinai. ...
Australian Naval History on 20 December 1915
The last personnel of the RAN Bridging Train, (RANBT), left Suvla Bay at 0430 making them the last Australians to depart the Gallipoli Peninsula. A 50-man team under SBLT C. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 February 1915
The RAN Bridging Train, (RANBT), was formed in Melbourne under the command of LCDR L.S. Bracegirdle. The unit was to be a mounted engineering unit made up of RAN Reserve ...