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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 66- Guns of Victoria 20.09.2023 29:18

Welcome to podcast number 66 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 If you have ventured into a local park in Australia you may have come acro...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 65- Vietnam Veterans Day - a veterans special journey 17.08.2023 15:11

Welcome to podcast number 65 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 18th of August is Vietnam Veterans day and for 2023, marks the 50th an...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 64-108 years later update- the diary of a WWI digger 30.07.2023 15:23

Welcome to podcast number 64 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 Back in February this year we chatted to Karen and Tom, the folks behind t...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 63- Sandy the War Horse 15.05.2023 37:10

Welcome to podcast number 63 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 Something special is happening on Saturday 23 May 2023 involving a war hor...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 62- Following the Twenty Second- The 22nd Battalion 1st AIF 25.04.2023 41:44

Welcome to podcast number 62 for Thanks for your Service for Anzac Day, 25 April 2023. 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 I recently came across a comprehensive resear...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 61- An Australian living on Gallipoli 13.03.2023 23:05

Welcome to podcast number 61 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 Bill Sellars is an Australian journalist who has been living on the Gall...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 60- 108 Years Later- diary of an ANZAC 13.02.2023 13:25

Welcome to podcast number 60 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 108 years ago, a WW1 Anzac digger kept a diary and recorded his departur...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 59- HMAS Castlemaine- Part Two 28.01.2023 25:49

Welcome to podcast number 59 for Thanks for your Service. Our first podcast for 2023. 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 During the January school holidays, I took t...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 58- HMAS Castlemaine- Part One 21.01.2023 28:05

Welcome to podcast number 58 for Thanks for your Service. Our first podcast for 2023. 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 During the January school holidays, I took the...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 57- Australia’s Secret Army Part 2 15.12.2022 23:40

Welcome to podcast number 57 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 is just around the corner and if you need a last minute gift t...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 56- Australia’s Secret Army Part 1 08.12.2022 24:08

Welcome to podcast number 56 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 is just around the corner and if you need a last minute gift the...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 55- The secret base at Park Orchards, Victoria 22.10.2022 11:29

Welcome to podcast number 55 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 Park Orchards Chalet lies empty in the north east Melbourne suburb o...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 54- The search for HMAS Sydney II 03.09.2022 25:15

Welcome to podcast number 54 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 Royal Australian Navy has had 5 ships named HMAS Sydney. The second H...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 53- Ballarat’s Arch of Victory and Avenue of Honour 31.07.2022 22:47

Welcome to podcast number 53 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 Ballarat is home to 2 significant monuments that commemorative the servic...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 52- Ladies to the front: the hidden history of women in Australian airforce bands 19.06.2022 12:11

Welcome to podcast number 52 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 Australian defence force bands only formally welcomed women into their ra...

Thanksforyourservice -Podcast 51- Beyond the Great Escape- RAAF airmen of Stalag Luft III 29.05.2022 16:51

Welcome to podcast number 51 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 . Stalag Luft III is probably best known for the movie the Great Escape which dramatises a real life camp breakout during World war...

Thanksforyourservice- Podcast 50- The First Ashore- Gallipoli 1915 19.04.2022 33:53

Welcome to podcast number 50 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Anzac Day 2022 is a week away. About 4.30am Sunday 25 April 1915, the f...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 49- Riding for Veterans Charity 09.04.2022 13:17

Welcome to podcast number 49 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net On 13 April 2022 Chris Doyle is riding the Australian Remembrance Trail th...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 48- Ballarat ANZACS Exhibition 08.04.2022 8:39

Welcome to podcast number 48 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net . You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net An exhibition titled the Ballarat Anzacs is being held now until the end of April at...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 47- Women of the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force (WRAAF) 26.03.2022 14:48

Welcome to podcast number 47 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net . The Women’s Royal Australian Air Force (WRAAF) operated between 1951 and 1977. Jessica Ferrari from Memento Media received a grant from th...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 46- The Battle of the Bismarck Sea-Part 2 06.03.2022 18:45

Welcome to podcast number 46 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net . Author Michael Veitch describes it as the forgotten battle that saved the Pacific. His latest book is titled The Battle of the Bismarck S...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 45- The Battle of the Bismarck Sea 27.02.2022 34:28

Welcome to podcast number 45 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net . Author Michael Veitch describes it as the forgotten battle that saved the Pacific. His latest book is titled The Battle of the Bismarck Se...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 44-The Shrine, Surrey Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. 26.01.2022 17:24

Welcome to podcast number 44 for Thanks for your Service. In many towns in many parks across Australia, you will almost certainly find a war memorial in dedication to those who served and died in wars from the Boer War to Afghanistan. I live in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and one particular memorial that I visited recently has a unique design. The Shrine at Surrey Gardens in Surrey Hills,...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 43 The Sir John Monash Centre 07.12.2021 18:54

Welcome to podcast number 43 for Thanks for your Service and the last podcast for 2021. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net . For today's podcast we head to France where we speak to Rebecca Doyle, the Director of the Sir John Monash Ce...

Thanksforyourservice Podcast 42- WWII The Australians fighting the Vichy French 13.11.2021 27:41

Welcome to podcast number 42 for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter Just search for Thanks For Your Service. Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net . We had the pleasure of having David Sutton, Senior War Historian at the Australian War Memorial, join us in Podcast 26 to talk about the Au...