Thanks For Your Service Podcasts

Welcome to podcast number 41 for Thanks for your Service. 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 At the end of WW1, Britain gave Australia six J class submarines.  One of those subs, the J7, exists today at the Sandringham Yacht Club in Port Philip Bay i...

Welcome to podcast number 40 for Thanks for your Service. Thanksforyourservice is a news and information resource and its focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter  Just search for Thanksforyourservice.  Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Colonel Earnest Latchford M...

Welcome to podcast number 39 for Thanks for your Service.  Thanksforyourservice is a news and information resource and its focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter  Just search for Thanksforyourservice.  Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Kate Reid-Smith is a forme...

Welcome to podcast number 38 for Thanks for your Service.  Thanksforyourservice is a news and information resource and its focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.  You can find us on Facebook and Twitter  Just search for Thanksforyourservice.  Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at  info@thanksforyourservice.net In our last podcast, num...

Welcome to podcast number 37 for Thanks for your Service.  Thanksforyourservice is a news and information resource and its focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military.  You can find us on Facebook and Twitter  Just search for Thanksforyourservice.  Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net A very special podcast to...

Welcome to podcast number 36 for Thanks for your Service. Thanksforyourservice is a news and information resource and its focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter  Just search for Thanksforyourservice.  Our website is www. thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Will Davies is an author an...

Welcome to podcast number 35 for Thanks for your Service.  In contravention of a Geneva Protocol, the allies shipped and had stored in Australia mustard gas during World War II.  Janine Roberts tells us about the Mustard Gas Men.  One of the ways to promote this podcast is through your feedback. If you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcasting apps please leave a review.  You can also supp...

Welcome to podcast number 34 for Thanks for your Service.  If you were to travel to Half Moon Bay in Port Phillip Bay in Victoria and gaze offshore....you are still able to see a piece of colonial history of Australia.  Sitting in just 3 meters of water and some 200 metres from the shore is the wreck of Her Majesty's Victorian Ship (HMVS) Cerberus.  One of the ways to promote this podcast is throu...

Welcome to podcast number 33 for Thanks for your Service. Thanksforyourservice is a news and information resource and its focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. Jack Byrne was a Goulburn boy who joined the 2nd AIF and served in New Guinea,  He suffered injuries and illness which also led him going AWOL on occasions which ultimately led to a dishonourable discharge.  21...

Welcome to podcast number 32 for Thanks for your Service.  Thanksforyourservice is a news and information resource and its focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. For Anzac day 2020, Australia Post released a commemorative stamp issue.  This stamp issue features oil on canvas paintings that were inspired by the events of the two World Wars on the home front and in combat...

Welcome to podcast 31 for Thanksforyourservice.  Many of you would be familiar with Bletchley Park in the UK and it’s involvement in the allied victory in WW2.  Canberra author David Dufty joins us to tell us about Australia’s own version of Bletchley Park and the role it played towards victory in the Pacific War. David's book, The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau can be found at this link: ...

Welcome to Podcast number 30.  We  speak to  Barbara Ainsworth, Curator of the Monash Museum of Computing History at Monash University, about Melbourne's links to codebreaking and some of the historic sites from WWI and WWII. You can find the relevant links to this podcast on our facebook page.   We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to u...

Welcome to Podcast number 29.  We are back for 2020 after a long break over Christmas and the new year.  I had the opportunity to meet up with Brian Tateson who is the Vice President and memorabilia officer at the Box Hill RSL in Melbourne Victoria.  Brian served with C Squadron 1 Armoured Regiment in Vietnam. He joins us for a chat. You can find the relevant links to this podcast on our facebook...

Welcome to Podcast number 28.  In our last podcast we learnt about the most senior Australian killed in the Boer War- Lt Colonel Charles Edward Ernest Umphelby. In this podcast, we are joined by Jason Macgregor who chats to us about Victorian military history. You can find the relevant links to this podcast on our facebook page. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook pa...

For this podcast, we are heading to South Africa to learn about the most senior Australian killed in the Boer War- Lt Colonel Charles Edward Ernest Umphelby and chat with Dr Garth Benneyworth, Head of Department of Heritage Studies  at Sol Plaatje University. You can find the relevant links to this podcast on our Facebook page. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook pag...

The Russian Civil War affected Russia between 1918 and 1921.  The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had formed that opposed Lenin’s Bolsheviks. These groups included monarchists, militarists, and, for a short time, foreign nations. Collectively, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Reds.  David Sutton, a military historian at the Australian...

Welcome to podcast number 25.  We head to Brisbane to speak with Dr Lindsay McDowell who tells us the story behind the pine tree at Wattle Park in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Relevant links about this podcast can be found on our Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/Thanksforyourservice/ . We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us...

Major Darryl Kelly OAM recently joined my father and I on a call to discuss the service of my grandfather, Charles Harold Hatt in WW1.  Charles was a Gunner with the 4th Battery, 2 Field Artillery Brigade 1st AIF and landed on Gallipoli on 26th April 1915 and survived for two days before being shot and wounded.  He was medically repatriated to the UK and back to Australia before being medically di...

In this podcast we talk to Lorraine Brown,  Secretary of the Harden Murrumburrah Historical Society about the unveiling on 31 August 2019 of a life size sculpture of Lt. Col. Kenneth Mackay, founder of the first Australian Horse and Boer War veteran.  Relevant links about this podcast can be found on our Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/Thanksforyourservice/ . We are keen to hear your fe...

In this podcast we talk to Eric Bogle, legendary songwriter about two of his military related songs- "And the band played Waltzing Matilda" and "Green fields of France". Relevant links about this podcast can be found on our Facebook page. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes, please leave a review. Finally, if you are in...

In this podcast we talk to Dr Peter Dowling about Canberra's World War II history. Relevant links about this podcast can be found on our Facebook page. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes, please leave a review. Finally, if you are interested in sponsorship/support of this podcast, head to our website or email us.  You...

In this podcast we learn about the Fromelles Association of Australia and the Battle of Fromelles fought in World War I. Geoffrey Benn, Secretary of the Fromelles Association of Australia and Marg O’Leary Vice President of Research joins us. The Facebook page of the Association is  https://www.facebook.com/Fromelles-Association-of-Australia-400714926696817/ We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave...

Robyn Florance recently wrote about the Shoalhaven women heroines of WW1. Alan Clark, a local historian helped Robyn edit the book. The website of the Shoalhaven Historical Society is  http://www.shoalhavenhistory.org.au/home We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes, please leave a review. Finally, if you are interested in s...

The Ingleburn Military Camp was established at the outbreak of World War 2, and is commonly known today as Bardia Barracks. Its well known to thousands of Australian army personnel who from World War 2, Korea, National Service, Vietnam and in its final primary role, home to the army reserves 2 Training Group. Bob Gosling from The Ingleburn Military precinct association tells us more. We are keen t...

For this podcast, we are joined by Terri-Anne Simmonds, who is the Project Manager for Places of Pride with the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The Places of Pride website is  https://placesofpride.awm.gov.au We are keen to hear your feedback.  That email again is info@thanksforyourservice.net or leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes, please leave a r...