TFYS

Thanks For Your Service Podcasts

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Thanks for your service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.

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Thanksforyourservice Podcast 91- First to Serve and Sacrifice- Australians in the Boer War 30.06.2026 18:29

Welcome to our 91st podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Dr Daryl Moran joins us to talk about his latest book, ‘First to Serve and Sacri...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 90- Clive Caldwell WWII Air Ace 30.05.2026 27:31

Welcome to our 90th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Author Kristen Alexander has been a regular on our podcast and today joins us to...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 89- Fort Queenscliff- Victoria- from 1860 to now 20.04.2026 11:29

Welcome to our 89th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Anzac Day 2026 is almost upon us and it commemorates our baptism of fire as a na...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 88- Bletchley Park and Australia 22.03.2026 33:07

Welcome to our 88th podcast for Thanks for your Service .Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Many of our listeners would have heard about Bletchley Park in the UK that becam...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 87- Animals at War- Purple Poppy Day 22.02.2026 20:40

Welcome to our 87th podcast for Thanks for your Service and our first for 2026 Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Each year, on 24 February, is National Day for War Animals...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 86- Michael Veitch's latest book- Borneo The Last Campaign 06.12.2025 18:25

Welcome to our 86th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Michael Veitch is back again with perhaps his last book with an Australian milit...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 85- Kingston Avenue of Honour - Remembrance Day 2025 10.11.2025 21:54

Welcome to our 85th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Scattered throughout many towns of Australia are Avenues of Honour- a memorial a...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 84- The forgotten war- Australia's involvement in the WWII Burma campaign 25.09.2025 25:23

Welcome to our 84th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Referred to as the forgotten war, thousands of Australians- from service men and...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 83- The World War II role of Cressy Aerodrome in Victoria 10.08.2025 10:01

Welcome to our 83 rd podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Another podcast about the home front. We are staying in rural Victoria in Austr...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 82 - WW2 PoW and Internee camps in the Goulburn Valley, Victoria 19.07.2025 28:11

Welcome to our 82nd podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have known that during WW2 the Goulburn Valley in Victoria housed nearl...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 81 - WW2 Menace at Home- German and Japanese submarines in Australian waters 31.05.2025 32:56

Welcome to our 81st podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net I recently attended a military conference in Melbourne hosted by Military History...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 80 - The Gallipoli Campaign- Imbros- the forgotten island 24.04.2025 35:51

Welcome to our 80th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Anzac Day 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the commemoration of the landing at...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 79 - WWII - Books, books and more books 31.03.2025 43:20

Welcome to our 79th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net The theme so far this year with our podcasts has been books. That theme continue...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 78 - WWII PoW camp in suburban Melbourne 27.02.2025 14:25

elcome to our 78th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have known that Rowville, a suburb of Melbourne, hosted a Prisoner of Wa...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 77 - Australian women doing their part in Ceylon in WWII 26.01.2025 20:03

Welcome to our 77th podcast for Thanks for your Service and the first for 2025. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Ceylon, modern day Sri Lanka, was a strategic point for the...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 76 - Professor Peter Stanley- One of Australia’s leading military historians 01.12.2024 27:05

Welcome to our 76th podcast for Thanks for your Service and the last for 2024 Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting one of Australia’s l...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 75- The Cycling battalions of the 1st AIF 25.09.2024 21:37

Welcome to our 75th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have thought the 1st AIF had cycling battalions. Ally Roche from the A...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 74- Anzac- The Greek Chapter- documentary 19.08.2024 13:16

Welcome to podcast number 74 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net The Shrine in Melbourne recently hosted an advance screening of a new do...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 73- Cowra Breakout 80th anniversary 28.06.2024 23:22

Welcome to podcast number 73 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net On the 5th of August 1944 there was a mass prisoner of war escape from a P...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 72- B24 Liberator bomber in Melbourne 31.05.2024 30:08

Welcome to podcast number 72 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net One of the special things about doing these podcasts is coming across what...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 71- The Great Escape 80th anniversary and the Australian connections 22.03.2024 46:52

Welcome to podcast number 71 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net This month, March 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the Great Escape. M...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 70- National Archives of Australia- WWII digitisation project 07.02.2024 24:37

Welcome to podcast number 70 for Thanks for your Service and out first podcast for 2024. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net In 2023, the National Archives of Australia...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 69- The Australian Army Unrecovered War Casualties unit 05.12.2023 26:13

Welcome to podcast number 69 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Our next guest gives as remarkable insight into the Australian army’s vita...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 68- The Kriegies- RAAF POW’s in WWII 07.11.2023 23:51

Welcome to podcast number 68 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Christmas time is nearly upon us and if you are looking for idea for a pre...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 67- RAAF Training in Ballarat- 1WAGS 23.10.2023 32:26

Welcome to podcast number 67 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net One of the great experiences of doing these podcasts is coming across remn...