‘Right royal welcome’ to Pacific flier …
Homecoming for the lauded prodigal sons On June 9th, 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, and…
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‘Bloody April’: Lt. Taylor survives
2/Lt. ‘Bill’ Taylor joined 66 Squadron just before the Royal Flying Corps worst month of the…
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Local resident Norman Ellison’s Southern Cro …
At 10.50 am, June 9, 1928, resident Norman Ellison was an eye-witness to one of the…
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Raglan St. to RFC: Bill Taylor’s school days …
Born of sylvan solitude P.G. Taylor grew up with his parents, two older brothers and a…
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Audience with the Sphinx: Maj. General Bridges and …
At nightfall on April 25, ANZAC Divisions clung hard onto ridges above the landing beach. Hopes…
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Borough’s beginnings: Mayor Taylor’s l …
Scottish emigre P.T. Taylor was very much a self-made man with an eye to civic duty…
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‘That spirit of restlessness’: Charles …
Charles Thomas Phillippe Ulm was born in 1898, the son of Gustave, a Parisian-born artist1, and…
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2/Lt. Bill Taylor and the Valentine’s day mutiny …
Boy mascot company commander Like other lads his age, Bill Taylor didn’t want to miss out…
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Charles Ulm: A flying life
Ulm, Charles Thomas Philippe (1898–1934) by John McCarthy Charles Thomas Philippe Ulm (1898-1934), aviator, was born…