The Last Anzac

Author : Gordon Winch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 1925059294

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The Last Anzac by Gordon Winch Pdf

To James, Alec Campbell was a hero. He was right. The old man, the last living ANZAC, and all of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought at Gallipoli, were heroes everyones heroes. Alec, who died in May 2002 at the age of 103, enlisted in 1915 when he was just 16. He had put his age up to 18 in order to be accepted by the army and agreed to fight at the front, wherever he was needed. Heroic indeed! James was very fortunate to meet Alec Campbell and find out about his experiences. He gives us a special view of this humble and remarkable man, the year before he died. Based on the true story of a small boys visit to meet Alec Campbell in the year 2001.

Author : Arthur Henry Smout
Publisher : Boolarong Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925046434

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Queensland’s Last Anzac by Arthur Henry Smout Pdf

Sgt Edward David (Ted) Smout OAM was Queensland’s Last Anzac who died on 22 June 2004. A man, who typically at the time lied about his age to enlist, survived the ravages of war after spending some time fighting at the Somme in 1918. He was an eyewitness to the final moments of the infamous “Red Baron”, Manfred von Richtofen. He was discharged on 8 September 1919 10 months following the Armistice on 11 November 1918. Smout was awarded France’s highest honour, a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur in 1998 and an OAM for service to the community. The Ted Smout Memorial Bridge which crosses Bramble Bay linking Clontarf and Brighton was named in his honour in 2009.

Author : Tony Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1921361468

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The Last Anzacs by Tony Stephens Pdf

On May 16, 2002, the last of the Anzacs - Alec Campbell - died at age 103. To mark his passing Tony Stephens and Steven Siewert have updated their book The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget to include an interview with Alec Campbell. Together with the interviews and photographs of seventeen other Anzacs, this book, in recording the individual life stories of those men, stands as a historic tribute to those who survived the horrors of Gallipoli, a military campaign that has come to symbolize an important moment in Australian history and a potent reminder of what it means to be Australian.

Author : Belinda Landsberry
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781775592068

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Anzac Ted by Belinda Landsberry Pdf

Author : Catriona Hoy,Ben Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anzac Day
ISBN : 0734410360

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My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day by Catriona Hoy,Ben Johnson Pdf

This picture book for the very young is a simple, moving look at Anzac Day through the eyes of a little girl. She goes to the pre-dawn Anzac Day service with her father where they watch the girl s grandfather march in the parade. This beautifully illustrated book explains what happens on Anzac Day and its significance in terms a young child can understand It is an excellent introduction to this highly venerated ceremony, and poignantly addresses the sentiments aroused by the memory of those who gave their lives for their country.

Author : Kate Simpson,Jess Racklyeft
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781760873547

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Anzac Girl: The War Diaries of Alice Ross-King by Kate Simpson,Jess Racklyeft Pdf

It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn't have imagined what she would see. She served four long years and was brave, humble and endlessly compassionate. Using extracts from Alice's actual diaries kept in the Australian War Memorial, this true story captures the danger, the heartache and the history of the young nurse who would one day become the most decorated woman in Australia.

Author : Tony McGrath
Publisher : Tony McGrath
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ANZAC STEEL by Tony McGrath Pdf

In early August 1914, Arthur Steel and his best mate, Don Cameron travel to Sydney from their hometown of Warwick, Queensland to enlist in the 1st Brigade of the Australian Imperial Force. On April 25, 1915 they storm the beaches of Gallipoli, Turkey in the second wave of the Anzac attack. The Australians are cut to pieces. Arthur is shot on the third day, but survives. Don is later killed at the Battle of Lone Pine. Following in their footsteps, Arthur’s brothers, Herbert and Robert - along with their cousin William - all enlist in the Light Horse Brigade. Don Cameron’s brother Bob, joins the infantry. Arthur recovers in England and returns to 2nd Battalion to fight on in the trenches of the Western Front. He is gassed under Hill 60, hit with shrapnel at Ypres and shot three more times. One town, two families, six sons. By war’s end, each will each face a different outcome. This is their story - from Gallipoli to Armistice Day and beyond.

Author : Alistair Thomson
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921867583

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Anzac Memories by Alistair Thomson Pdf

Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’, and Michael Roper concluded that ‘an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by’. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a ‘post-memory’ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans’ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans’ post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory.

Author : Antonio Sagona,Mithat Atabay,C. J. Mackie,Richard Reid,Ian McGibbon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111745

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Anzac Battlefield by Antonio Sagona,Mithat Atabay,C. J. Mackie,Richard Reid,Ian McGibbon Pdf

Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present day. Drawing on archival, archaeological and cartographic material, this book unearths the deep history of the Gallipoli peninsula, setting the Gallipoli campaign in a broader cultural and historical context. The book presents the results of an original archaeological survey, the research for which was supported by the Australian, New Zealand and Turkish Governments. The survey examines materials from both sides of the battlefield, and sheds new light on the environment in which Anzac and Turkish soldiers endured the conflict. Richly illustrated with both Ottoman and Anzac archival images and maps, as well as original maps and photographs of the landscape and archaeological findings, Anzac Battlefield is an important contribution to our understanding of Gallipoli and its landscape of war and memory.

Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0702234478

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Inventing Anzac by Graham Seal Pdf

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Author : Marilyn Lake
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459604957

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What's Wrong with ANZAC? by Marilyn Lake Pdf

In recent years Anzac an idea as much as an actual army corps has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each year.

Author : Tony Stephens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:816494747

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The Last Anzacs: Lest We Forget by Tony Stephens Pdf

Author : David W. Cameron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921941719

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Gallipoli by David W. Cameron Pdf

In early August with the failure of the August Offensive at Gallipoli the senior commanders still believed that victory was possible. To help prepare for a new offensive sometime in the first half on 1916 the allied forces attempted to straighten out the line connecting Suvla and Anzac at a small hillock called Hill 60.

Author : John Crawford,Ian McGibbon
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781927147344

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New Zealand's Great War by John Crawford,Ian McGibbon Pdf

This book is a collection of essays arising out of the OCyZealandiaOCOs Great WarOCO conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New ZealandOCOs involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, the early years of the RSA, Gallipoli, the infantry on the Somme, New ZealandOCOs involvement in the naval war, prostitution and the New Zealand soldier, the Home Defence, religion in the First World War, and the Armistice. New ZealandOCOs Great War is a fascinating miscellany of informed comment on and insight into the event that did most to shape New Zealand as a nation. Contributors include New ZealandOCOs own Chris Pugsley, Glyn Harper, Terry Kinloch, Monty Soutar, Megan Hutching, Vincent Orange and Bronwyn Dalley, as well as Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Jennifer Keene, Jenny McLeod, Pierre Purseigle, Peter Stanley and Gary Sheffield from overseas."

Author : Major Keith A. Lawless
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786252333

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The Evacuation Phase Of The Gallipoli Campaign Of 1915 by Major Keith A. Lawless Pdf

This battle study investigates operational and tactical considerations of the battles of Arracourt, which took place in September 1944 as the 4th Armored Division of Patton’s Third Army clashed with the Fifth German Panzer Army in the French province of Lorraine on the U.S. drive to the German West Wall. By examining detailed German and American unit histories, logs, and summaries, as well as personal papers, this study illuminates differences and similarities in reporting the U.S. penetration from the Nancy Bridgehead to Arracourt, the German offensive at Lunéville as a prelude to Arracourt, and the two German offensives at Arracourt, as the Fifth Panzer Army attempted to link up with a German unit cut off at Nancy. Arracourt exemplifies penetration and mobile defense and illustrates the demand for good intelligence and flexible command and control. It shows the inherent risks of piecemeal commitment of reserves, the need for timely orders and good logistical support, as well as the tactical advantages of air superiority.