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The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia - Australia's Culture PortalMerchant vessels Barossa and Neptuna burning in Darwin Harbour near the jetty after receiving direct hits during the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. During the Second World War, the Japanese flew 64 raids on Darwin and 33 raids on other targ...
Unknown photographer, Freda Thompson (1906-1980), Pictured here in 1934 just before take off at Lympne Airport when she became the first Australian woman to fly solo from England to Australia, 1934. Courtesy of National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame. Avia...
Gp Capt Eaton Charles, CO RAAF Station Darwin. Image courtesy of the Charles Eaton Photographic Collection and Peter Dunn's Australia @ War. Eaton entered Australian aviation legend when commanding the air searches for two lost aircraft, the Kookaburra ...
Image courtesy of the National Trust of Queensland, Hou Wang Temple. The businesses in Chinatowns offered accommodation, medicinal herbs, fresh food grown by Chinese market gardeners and groceries. A Chinese school, a language and culture centre and a Ch...
Ships wrecked in Australian waters during the Second World War profoundly effected the Australian people, both civilian and military. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: 304919. The first Australian warship to be lost in the Second World War w...
Women's involvement in air defence forces in a flying capacity was highly limited until the 1970s. For decades, women's roles in air defence were restricted to jobs on the ground and within Australia. Australian women's involvement in air defence servic...
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The Japanese bombing of Darwin and northern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture Portal )Merchant vessels Barossa and Neptuna burning in Darwin Harbour near the jetty after receiving direct hits during the first Japanese air raid on 19 February 1942. During the Second World War, the Japanese flew 64 raids on Darwin and 33 raids on other targ...
WOODS, JAMES (1893-1975), aviator, was born on 14 November 1893 at Udny, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, fourth son of Charles Wood, journeyman shoemaker, and his wife Elizabeth, n. E. P. Wixted, The North-West Aerial Frontier 1919-1934 (Brisb, 1985); J. Lewis, ...
"The set list includes a rollicking version of Untouchable Girls, 2007's New Zealand Country Music Awards Country Song of the Year Tamworth and swampy ballads, rockabilly and howlin' blues." The McClymonts' (pictured) Favourite Boyfriend Of The Year takes...
Francis Masson Bladin (1898 - 1978), by William Dargie, courtesy of Australian War Memorial. BLADIN, FRANCIS MASSON (1898-1978), air force officer, was born on 26 August 1898 at Korumburra, Victoria, son of Frederick William Bladin, engineering contractor...
Olive Dorothy Paschke (1905 - 1942), by unknown photographer, courtesy of Australian War Memorial. PASCHKE, OLIVE DOROTHY (1905-1942), army matron, was born on 19 July 1905 at Dimboola, Victoria, third daughter of Australian-born parents Heinrich Wilhelm ...
CATALAN, ANSELM MARY (1878-1959), Benedictine abbot, was born on 16 November 1878 at Corella, Navarra, Spain, son of Michael Catalan. Nevertheless, Catalan completed the transformation of New Norcia from an Aboriginal mission,Äîpioneered by Abbot Salvado...
On the outbreak of World War I he sailed for Sydney where he enlisted in the 1st Field Company, Engineers, Australian Imperial Force, on 20 August 1914. A. D. Ellis, The Story of the Fifth Australian Division (Lond, 1920); C. E. W. Bean, The Story of Anz...
Lecture 1: National Security at the Breakfast Table? He's spent a lifetime puzzling over national security and in his first lecture, General Peter Cosgrove makes mention of all the wars we've been involved in since WW2 and talks about their place in the A...
Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott (1886 - 1975), by unknown photographer, c1930, courtesy of National Library of Australia. ABBOTT, CHARLES LYDIARD AUBREY (1886-1975), politician and administrator of the Northern Territory, was born on 4 May 1886 at St Leonar...
When Lewis arrived at power the Australian steel industry was tottering and B.H.P. could not compete with imported steel. Unlike Delprat, Lewis encouraged B.H.P. to develop its own steel-based industries, the profits from which proved vital in the 1920s....
ABBOTT, CHARLES LYDIARD AUBREY (1886-1975), politician and administrator of the Northern Territory, was born on 4 May 1886 at St Leonards, Sydney, son of Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, stipendiary magistrate, and his wife Marion, n. Aubrey's uncles,Äî(Sir) Jose...
Peter Fyfe, Thomas Guichard (FRA) with Alexander McIver (SCT) & Fraser McDonald (SCT), Alyx Guidi, Amanda Hills, Jessica Hodgkinson, Dee Johnson, Mitra Jovanovic, Danielle Leonello, Tomas Liebetag, Donna Page, Elizabeth Rankin, Jacqueline Salvatore, Diana...
This was one of Hughes' attempts to force conscription on Australians, but it was withdrawn when Curtin had served only three days in prison. Strict rationing made life austere and, despite Curtin's anti-conscription stance of the first war, he persuaded...
SLQ - Travelling for Love - War Brides talk - Robyn Arrowsmith. gov. au 1Travelling for love: journeys of WWII war brides By Robyn Arrowsmith My talk today will be based on research for my PhD thesis at Macquarie University. My study is focused on the e...
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