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Colonel Tom Moore talks to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Miller while holding The Yorkshire Regiment Medal, re-presented as a birthday gift from the British Army after he lost the original. Photo by Corporal Robert Weideman, UK Ministry of Defence.

Former Captain Tom Moore promoted on his birthday

30/04/202005/05/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4417 Views 0 Comments

World famous walkathon fundraiser and now former-captain Tom Moore has been promoted to the rank of colonel on his 100th Birthday.

Captain Tom Moore and his singing partner – and favourite singer – Michael Ball show off their Number One charts award after their cover of You'll Never Walk Alone debuted at Number 1. Photo courtesy Official Charts web site.

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Captain Tom making and breaking records

28/04/202028/04/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2594 Views 0 Comments

Captain Tom Moore, 99 year old World War 2 veteran and walkathon legend, has officially set two very significant records before his 100th birthday.

Captain Arthur Harold Appleby and an extract from his service record.

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Another WWI Aussie’s remains formally identified

24/04/202024/04/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3397 Views 0 Comments

Army has identified a WWI remains as Captain Arthur Harold Appleby, providing his family with confirmation of his final resting place.

The Wellington Infantry Battalion preparing to board a troopship in October 1914. Few survived Gallipoli unscathed. By late September 1915 the battalion had experienced an attrition rate of more than 170 per cent. Alexander Turnbull Library, PA1-f-022-6-1

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NZ officially doubles Kiwi headcount for Gallipoli

24/04/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2406 Views 0 Comments

Two New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) historians have published an e-book confirming that the number of New Zealand soldiers who

Captain Tom finishes the 100 laps of his garden he initially set out to achieve, but vowed to walk on as long as people kept donating. Photo by by Emma Sohl – Capture The Light Photography.

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‘Bowie’ tribute to Captain Tom as he passes $50million

23/04/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3334 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

A Scottish pantomime singer has recorded a tribute to Captain Tom Moore – the 99-year-old British walk-a-thon fundraiser.

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment form an honour guard for Captain Tom Moore as he races towards what was supposed to be the finish line in an epic fundraising effort. Photo by Frances Haycock, UK MoD.

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Captain Tom Moore races past charity goals

17/04/202017/04/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3129 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

WWII vet Captain Tom Moore, walking to raise funds for the British National Health Service, is more than 17,000,000% past his initial fundraising goal.

A British Army engineer works on fixings at the NHS Nightingale hospital in London's Docklands. UK MoD photo.

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British Army building 4000-bed Nightingale hospital in London

29/03/202029/03/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2623 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

British Army engineers are working with NHS staff to turn a conference centre in London into a 4000-bed hospital to treat Coronavirus patients.

A cadets from the Irish Army's 96th Cadet Class in training with the National Health Service to conduct 'contact tracing' as Ireland combats the corona virus. Óglaigh na hÉireann photo.

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Irish Defence Forces suspend all non-essential activities

14/03/202014/03/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3649 Views 0 Comments COVID-19

Irish Defence Forces have cancelled all non-essential activities in preparing to assist the civil authority in the fight against COVID-19.

An Apache helicopter from 656 Squadron, 4 Regiment Army Air Corps, on exercise within the Arctic Circle. British Army photo.

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UK Apaches launch Arctic Hellfire

29/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 4053 Views 0 Comments

British Army’s Apache attack helicopters have fired Hellfire missiles inside the Arctic Circle for the first time to prepare for extreme-cold exercising.

One of the first two Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning Joint Strike Fighters flies overhead RAAF Base Williamtown on delivery day. Photo by Brian Hartigan.

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Aus/UK open splinter F-35 Reprogramming Laboratory

25/02/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3411 Views 0 Comments F-35A Lightning II

Australia and the UK have officially opened an Australian and United Kingdom F-35 Reprogramming Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

Royal Navy Pilot Lieutenant Commander Nick Grimmer in an 808 Squadron MRH90 Taipan helicopter over the Grose Valley bushfire in the Blue Mountains National Park. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Brett Kennedy.

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British Navy pilot sees Australian bushfire action

10/01/2020 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3502 Views 0 Comments Operation Bushfire Assist 19-20

A Royal Navy helicopter pilot on exchange has helped save countless lives from the apocalyptic bushfires devastating Australia.

An artists impression of a Boomeranger 10.5m special-operations RHIB, as ordered by the Royal Australian Navy for its new off-shore patrol vessels. Boomeranger image.

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Finland wins Australian RHIB contract

14/10/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 5531 Views 0 Comments

Australia has signed a contract with Finland company Boomeranger Boats to supply the sea boats for the Royal Australian Navy’s new

Major Graham Hickman of the New Zealand Army Band, right, receives the Pooley Sword at the final show of the 2019 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Photo courtesy The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

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New Zealand Army Band takes top prize at Edinburgh Tattoo

28/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2594 Views 0 Comments

The New Zealand Army Band concluded a memorable appearance at the 2019 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo by being presented with

Australian tugmaster trainee Alicia Pollock at the helm of a Portsmouth, UK, tug, with HMS Queen Elizabeth inward bound. Photo by Rob Hinton @TugmasterRob

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Aussie tugmasters graduate in the UK

09/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2059 Views 0 Comments

Three Serco trainees from Australia have successfully completed tugmaster training at Her Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth with the help of Serco

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MinDef hosts NATO chief on HMAS Hobart

08/08/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2361 Views 0 Comments

Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – NATO – Jens Stoltenberg visited Garden Island Defence Precinct yesterday, hosted

Sergeant Martin O’Meara's Victoria Cross medal at the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia in Fremantle. Photo by Chief Petty Officer Damian Pawlenko.

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Aussie VC going to Ireland

25/07/201926/07/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3587 Views 0 Comments

The Australian Army Museum of Western Australia and the Australian Army History Unit has loaned Sergeant Martin O’Meara’s Victoria Cross

Senator Linda Reynolds. Photo by David McClenaghan.

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Aus MinDef address to an (undefined) English audience

09/07/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2480 Views 0 Comments

FOR THE RECORD: REPRODUCED IN TOTAL – NO EDITING OR ANALYSIS (hell, I didn’t even read it – better things

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Airbus demos ‘Network for the Sky’ on MRTT

14/06/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1967 Views 0 Comments

Airbus has successfully completed a flight demonstration of a connected airborne battlespace scenario, centred on a MRTT aircraft. The test

Australia's first Boxer on show in Germany before delivery to Australia. Rheinmetall photo.

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Australia’s first Boxer in the mail

30/03/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3643 Views 0 Comments

Australian Ambassador to Germany Lynette Wood, senior Australian military representatives and senior Rheinmetall representatives attended an official inspection ceremony yesterday

Lance Corporal Ralph Johnson, 32nd Bn, AIF, age 19 of Middle Brighton, Victoria, left, and Lance Corporal John Alexander Crawford, 32nd Bn, AIF, age 30 of Hindmarsh, South Australia.

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Another seven Australian soldiers identified from the Battle of Fromelles

26/03/201926/03/2019 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2664 Views 0 Comments Fromelles

Seven Australian soldiers who fought and died in the World War One attack at Fromelles in France between 19 and 21 July 1916 have been formally identified by the Fromelles Identification Board.