Month: November 2023

27/28-JANUARY-1916, While serving as a soldier of the 5th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, Private Edward Attfield did not let his diminutive stature prevent him from volunteering for overseas service. He landed at Gallipoli and despite wounds and illness served until the evacuation in December 1915. When he returned to Alexandria, he vanished, never … Read More ““Lost in Time: The Rediscovery of Private Edward Attfield”” »

11-NOVEMBER-1993. To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the unidentified remains of an unknown Australian soldier, exhumed from the Adelaide Cemetery in Villers Bretonneux in France was interred within the Hall of Memory of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia. Today marks the 30th Anniversary of that interment. … Read More “The Unknown Australian Soldier 30th Anniversary” »

In this episode, I sat down over two separate sessions with Melissa Ratliff of God’s Favorites: A History Podcast and Ryan Day of the History Daddy YouTube channel I talk about the service and fate of Australia’s first (and only) Battlecruiser HMAS Australia, Ryan talks about the feared German Battlecruiser Bismarck, and Melissa surprised everyone … Read More “#Shipwreck Summer Roundtable Discussion with Melissa Ratliff and Ryan Day” »