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Pozières. ART41019, Australian War Memorial (cropped).
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Pozières

20/07/202620/07/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 301 Views 0 Comments

Murderous bombs rain down their relentless shower of dread,Ploughing the farmers’ fields to a sea of brown earthen waves,Drowning the

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Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG, stands next to the larger of two official portraits by renowned artist Michael Zavros unveiled at the Australian War Memorial on 2 September 2014. Photo by WO2 Andrew Hetherington.
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Australians all let us rejoice

08/04/2026 Posted by Brian Hartigan 467 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Australians all let us rejoiceFor we are young and free.And once our men have been to warWe’ll call them Soldier

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The Soldier-Poet

04/11/202504/11/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2232 Views 0 Comments

Although relatively unknown at the time, Wilfred Owen would come to be recognised as the best of the WWI poets.

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A ex-Australian Army Centurion tank bush bashing at South Gippsland Tank Adventures, to promote the tank's launch inside the global PC game World of Tanks. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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Jungle Centurions

30/09/202530/09/2025 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2727 Views 0 Comments

Far from the muddied fields of CambraiWhere their ancestors first stalked the battleGreat beasts of steel in a jungle lairAwait

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One of thousands of photos taken by Billy Cunneen in Vietnam – 1966, a US Army Iroquois takes off, after dropping off soldiers from 6RAR for a patrol.
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The Return

18/08/2025 Frank Meredith 8089 Views 0 Comments Frank Meredith

Soldier with your quiet eyes and forward stare Awaken from your thoughts of gentler fare Her lover’s breath is now

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Vietnam. 1966-11-28. Private Ken Wallace of Mitchelton, Brisbane, Qld, keeps a sharp watch as his mates in the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR), advance along a jungle track during Operation Ingham. Australian War Memorial file number CUN/66/0932/VN
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NEVER IN THE FIGHT

13/04/202413/04/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 14265 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

YOU MAY OFTEN FOOL YOURSELF AND THINK EVERYTHING IS FINE THEN IT SLOWLY DAWNS ON YOU SOMEONE HAS CROSSED THE

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file photo
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The Nashos

23/01/2024 Posted by Brian Hartigan 14814 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

We weren’t any heroes they kept us in reserve but for the love of nationhood we were proud to serve

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Berlin civilians watch an airlift plane land at Templehof Airport, 1948. United States Air Force Historical Research Agency photo, via Wikipedia.
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OPERATION VITTLES

16/11/202316/11/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 14369 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

THE PEOPLE COWERED IN SILENCE, WHEN THEY HEARD THE RED BEARS’ ROAR BERLIN LAY IN RUINS, BUT THE RUSSIANS WANTED

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Corporal Jagroop Mangat sells poppies and collects donations in Perth's Hay Street Mall, helping raise money for Legacy. Photo by Leading Seaman Bradley Darvill.
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THE POPPY BASKET

16/11/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 9442 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

IT SITS THERE FORLORNLY, UPON AN OFFICE CHAIR IN EXPECTATION, OF THE POPPIES WE WILL WEAR A SIMPLE CLOSING TRIBUTE,

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God, Please Don’t Strike Our Military Purple

02/09/202327/11/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 17088 Views 1 Comment By George Mansford

Always has been personal pride of warriors wearing military thread Confident and firm stride, be it off duty or on

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This Gloster Meteor F.8 is part of the Royal Australian Air Force’s Temora Historic Flight. Temora Aviation Museum image via RAAF web site.
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THE MEAT BOX

31/08/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 15675 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

WHEN SOUTH KOREA WAS ATTACKED, BY IT’S NEIGHBOUR FROM THE NORTH A DESPERATE CRY FROM THE WEAK, BROUGHT 77 SQUADRON

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Australian National Flag. Courtesy PM&C.
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Our Flag is Not For Sale

27/08/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 14995 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

Our proud flag, flying high above, is me and you Speak evil of her and she will in time bid

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Australian troops disembark a Qantas aircraft to start their tour of duty in Vietnam, at Saigon Airport, April 1966. Photo by WO2 'Billy' Cunneen – AWM CUN/66/0357/VN
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Back in The Day

23/07/2023 Mick Shave 15485 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Remember how we’d rant and roar, The joyful days that went before? We didn’t care what well might be For

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An Australian Army soldier proudly pins his well-earned Skippy badge to his puggaree after completing Exercise Hardcorps at the School of Infantry, Singleton, New South Wales. Photo by Corporal Shane Kelly.
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Genesis The Royal Australian Regiment

23/07/2023 Mick Shave 15389 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Comprised of three battalions and veterans every man, The brigade we sent from Moratai to occupy Japan Was professional, made

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Photo by Corporal Olivia Cameron.
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Jim

15/06/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 15379 Views 0 Comments By Jeff Austin

Let’s call him Jim, ‘cause that’s what she called him Outback Jackaroo, farmer, brother, privileged class A time of brotherhood,

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Using Facebook

28/05/2023 Mick Shave 18490 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

It is good to be proud of your service, Remembering what you have done; The trials and the tribulations, The

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Porky

26/05/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 16207 Views 1 Comment By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

. . When I joined the Air Force Back in 1966 We were young and clever And thought we knew

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PTSD unmasked – subject Trooper David Nicholson – makeup by Ambah de Smet – photography by Justin Marshall, JM Photography.
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FEW COME BACK

06/05/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 15893 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

  I WATCHED THEM, NO LONGER YOUNG, THOSE WHO ANSWERED THE CALL A SOBER, SOMBER REMINDER, THE ONES WHO GAVE

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Members of the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) participate in the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Talil, Iraq, 2008. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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Leave ANZAC Day Alone  

03/05/202303/05/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 15729 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

A very special sacred day to salute our fallen from the first to the last To reflect on glorious deeds

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Australian National Flag. Courtesy PM&C.
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YET ANOTHER CHALLENGE IN OUR HISTORY 

14/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 18552 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

        1939–A war and its trials we did not seek  Can you recall far distant drumbeats of

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