After Cocos: HMAS Sydney’s progress
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A new Captain After leaving SMS Emden ‘wrecked and done for’ in 1914,…
Category: Stories
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After Cocos: Sydney-Emden memorial unveiled!
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‘Emden’s Last Battle’ by Claus Bergen [1885-1964].Source 1914: Two sides of the EMDEN–SYDNEY fight in…
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‘NO’ again Billy
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With recruitment falling in 1917, Hughes called for a 2nd plebiscite on conscription. This campaign…
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‘A story of the trench’ by Cpl. Reg Da …
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Exactly 100 years ago today Corporal Reginald Dargan had A story of the trench, published…
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Patrick Francis Hogan
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Today (21 September 2017) is the 100th anniversary of Patrick Francis Hogan being killed in…
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Captain Frederick Reidy Jolley
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There is not a lot of information available on Captain Jolley He was born in…
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Silex Road, Mosman….
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As always happens in Local Studies when we start researching one thing we, somehow, become…
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Colonel Robert Sydney Sands M.B.E., V.D.
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Portrait of Colonel Robert Sands (centre) and two permanent German officers captured in New Guinea,…
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In memory of Ken Donnellan
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Recently a former and long-standing colleague, Ken Donnellan, passed away. Ken, who grew up in…