Charles Ulm: flights with Kingsford Smith and P.G. …
Pioneering Australian aviators Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith completed the first flight across the Pacific…
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1919 England to Australia Great Air Race: The cont …
On 19 March 1919 Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes announced a competition for the first Australian…
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‘Viewing Norris’ memorial window
Fallen commander of the 53rd The 53rd Battalion at the Battle of Fromelles was commanded…
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Allport family photos on Trace & Trove
At their leisure The Allport family donated photographs to Local Studies at Barry O’Keefe Library. They…
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1919 Air Race. Ross Smith to HMAS Sydney: ‘V …
The image below captures a moment in time, exactly 100 years ago. A ship’s mast rises…
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Cobbers remembered: Allan Allsop’s ‘te …
‘Allan’ Allsop worked tirelessly as a Stretcher-bearer behind front lines of Fromelles on the night of…
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Books by Norman Ellison
Flying Matilda (1957) From the inside cover: The early days of aviation in Australia were rich…
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Reading Ypres-Passchendaele; Destruction witnessed …
Eyewitness to destruction ‘Allan’ Allsop with the 8th Australian Field Ambulance diarised his impressions…
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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…