A sample of Australian male veterans of World War II was surveyed after 40 years. One hundred and seventy veterans had been held by the Japanese as prisoners of war and 172 veterans had served in southeast Asia but had not been taken captive (non-prisoners of war). A medical history was...
In South Africa during the Second Boer War, Australian Army Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant (Edward Woodward), Peter Handcock (Bryan Brown) and George Witton (Lewis Fitz-Gerald) stand accused of the murders of six Boer prisoners and the assassination of a German missionary. British Commander...
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Transportation of convicts to Sydney ended in 1840. The last ship carrying convicts arrived in Western Australia in 1868 by which time over 162,000 prisoners had been transported from Britain to Australia in 806 ships.Squatters Meaning of 'Squatter'Photo: Squatter ...
摘要:Originally published by William Collins and the ABC in 1984 as Changi Photographer, The Changi Camera is now re-published by Hachette Australia with a new essay by author Tim Bowden on the experiences of Australian prisoners of war who passed through Changi on their way to variou...
Today, the vast majority of Australians are of European descent. Europeans began arriving on the continent during the late-18th century. In fact, Australia was originally established as a colony for prisoners from the British Isles. Over the next two centuries, hundreds of thousands of immigrants...
Australian Light Horse Studies from 1890 to 1920 dealing with the Light Horsemen, Boer War, Rifle Clubs, Great War, Sinai, Western Frontier Force, Gallipoli and Palestine.
Since the fall of Singapore, the Japanese sent several thousand of British and Australian prisoners of war to camps in Borneo such as Batu Lintang camp. Eftir at Singapor fall, sendu japanar fleiri túsund bretskir og avstralskir krígsfangar til fangalegur á Borneo. WikiMatrix Helen...
52. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. Most Australians have ancestors who were prisoners. B. The Australian economy is dependent on sheep exports. C. The majority of people living in Australia come from Europe. D. The pace of life is different in the ...
Two of these five prisoners – Honora Tracey, charged with perjury and Stephen Spurling snr, charged with fraud, were both released on remand and bail respectively. Patrick Lamb received the lightest sentence of three years for stabbing a man over some “peas”; John Nowlan as Dowling was ...