There has been plenty of action on the Benalla Silo Art Trail in country Victoria! Artist Cam Scale had previously painted the wonderful mural of a modern-day Australian combat medic and a World War One military nurse standing amongst red poppies of the Flanders fields at the Devenish Silo Art (completed in April 2018) but…
Tag: World War One
Mephisto’s New Home – The Queensland Museum ANZAC Legacy Gallery
The worlds sole surviving Imperial German Army Sturmpanzerwagen A7V Mephisto (Vehicle 506) World War One tank is finally back on permanent display at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. The new ANZAC Legacy Gallery opened on November 10th, 2018 to coincide with the centenary of Remembrance Day. Sturmpanzerwagen A7V Sturmpanzerwagen translates to armoured assault vehicle. Although…
Devenish Silo Art
As you leave the Goorambat Silo Art and continue north on the Benalla Silo Art Trail in Victoria, you will soon encounter the beautiful and detailed artwork by Cam Scale of the Devenish Silo Art featuring an Australian combat medic and a military nurse, one modern-day and the other in World War One era uniform….
The Gallipoli Landings – Lest We Forget – ANZAC Day
The legend of the ANZAC was born from the courage and bloodshed of brave young men from Australia and New Zealand on the shores, steep cliffs, ravines and hills of Gallipoli in 1915. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) along with British and French forces faced stiff opposition from the Turkish troops of the Ottoman Empire during…
The Dreaded Gas Warfare of World War One
Enemy artillery shells come screaming in and crashing about, bringing a thunderous nightmare! Soon an eerie great cloud drifts slowly towards the trenches. The call to don a mask is roared out along the line, “It’s the dreaded gas boys!“. Blinding, gaseous poison that could burn the skin whilst destroying lungs in a single breath, leading to a slow,…
Mephisto – The Last German A7V Sturmpanzerwagen
I recently revisited the always impressive Australian War Memorial in Canberra, which is currently exhibiting an interesting and very rare piece of World War One history. Wander into the ground floor of the large ANZAC Hall and you will be confronted by the mighty Mephisto, the only surviving A7V Sturmpanzerwagen (armoured assault vehicle) Imperial German World War One tank…
Lest We Forget 2014
The Ode They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
A Brief History of the Royal Australian Air Force: The Early Years – 1914 to 1939
Originally posted on Aces Flying High:
To commemorate the centenary of military aviation in Australia (1914 to 2014) I am writing a four-part series of articles on the key stages of the RAAF: 1914 to 1939 (World War One and the interwar years), 1939 to 1945 (World War Two), 1945 to 1953 (the Cold War begins and the Korean War) and 1953 to the…
Canadian War Museum – Part II: LeBreton Gallery
The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Canada is a must see for anyone interested in military history. The displays of equipment and vehicles is impressive and covers the entire scope of Canada’s military history from the First Nations and Colonial times to the modern age. My previous blog covered the majority of the display halls, but my favourite part of the…
Canadian War Museum – Part I
When visiting Ottawa in Ontario, Canada if you have any interest in military history you must not miss the world-class Canadian War Museum. The impressive looking museum covers every period in which Canadians have been involved in some form of conflict and the main galleries are in historical chronological order. The galleries start out with Battleground which covers…
Stately Ottawa – Canada’s Capital
Ottawa in Ontario is the capital of Canada. The city was founded in 1826 as Bytown and in 1855 became a city and changed its name to Ottawa which is also the name of the river that runs beside it. The word Ottawa is derived from the language of the first nations tribe of the Algonquin. In their…
Royal Australian Armoured Corps Tank Museum at “Pucka”
The Armoured Corps of most nations armies originally started as horse borne cavalry units. With the introduction of the tank in World War One by the British who first used Mark I tanks on the Somme battlefield in France on September 15th, 1916 the face of warfare changed completely (they were introduced to break the back of trench warfare). Cavalry…
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