Service Records 14th Light Field Ambulance RAMC Latest: GB Crook, Today at 2:09 AM RAMC LCI(s) 523 @ Sword Beach Latest: Elwe23, Today at 2:09 AM The War at Sea Random Media resized P2440454 Chinthe in semi silhouette E.H.Clymo Home Guard (Large) resized_P2190538.jp...
Following the disastrous Greek campaign, General Freyberg assumed command of Crete Force (Creforce) for the defence of Crete on 1 May 1941, deploying approximately 28,600 British, Australian, Greek, and New Zealand troops across four sectors: Heraklion, Retimo, Suda Bay, and Maleme. Despite the...
the CAMs carried only one, catapult-launched aircraft for which there was no provision to recover. While in service in 1941 and 1942, the CAMs provided valuable service, making nine combat launches while with convoys in the North Atlantic
The company Hotchkiss started developing a new tank gun during the First World War. By the time the project was completed in 1920, the war had ended and it was subsequently abandoned. Later in the 1920s, the French Army needed to replace theCanon d’Infanterie de 37 modèle 1916 Tir Rapid...
This formidable force attacked all local powers in the area, after the US Fleet in Hawaii, the IFN fought the Royal Navy and the Dutch Navy, the Australian and New Zealand Navies, going as far as threatening convoys in the Indian Ocean from Madagascar....
The silent South Africans in the silent service Posted by Peter Dickens 10 Submariners are the true ‘heroes” of the Navy, known as the ‘silent service’ it is the most dangerous service any Navy can offer. The death of a submarine is a harrowing prospect to those who serve in it ...
Malcolm Uren;1000 Men at War - Story of the 2/16th Battalion A.I.F.[Led by Major General Stevens as part of the 21st Australian Infantry Brigade. Details their fighting in the Syrian campaign, the Kododa trail at Gona, New Guinea and Borneo highlighting their audacious heroism during the...
He then traveled to the Allied stronghold of Port Moresby on New Guinea’s southeast coast, where Arnold was greeted by Australian Generals Thomas Blarney and S. F. Roswell, and USAAF Brigadier General Ken Walker. Arnold sat down to breakfast with Walker and General Ennis Whitehead, Kenney’s...
My wifes great uncle did two tours in the Boer war as a member of the Western Australian mounted infantry, joined the 10th light horse early in the Great War, transferred to the RFA then the RFC as a Lieut (O) and then had the hide to try and join the South African Airforce (he ...