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 recen…

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 the…

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 abo…

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…

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.ne…

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 remar…

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…

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 …

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 l…

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…

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…

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 happenin…

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 …

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…

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 di…

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 D…

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 D…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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 signifi…

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 band…

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 dramatis…

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…

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 …

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 Anzac…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 Memoria…

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 t…

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@thanksf…

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@thanksf…

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@thanksf…

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@thanksf…

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@thanksf…

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…

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. O…

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 …

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 th…

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-Breake…

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…

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 …

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 …

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 y…

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. Davi…

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 ou…