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Welcome to our 80th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Anzac Day 2025 marks the 110th anniversary of the commemoration of the landing at Gallipoli.  When thinking of places linked to the Gallipoli campaign, you may have heard of places such as Egypt and Lemnos, however you may not have heard of Imbros. In today's podcast, Jim Claven tells us about the importance of the island of Imbros to the campaign. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 79th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X 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 theme so far this year with our podcasts has been books.  That theme continues with this podcast and our chat with author, Ian W Shaw.  Ian has written a number of books related to Australian military history on a wide range of topics. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.   

elcome to our 78th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have known that Rowville, a suburb of Melbourne, hosted a Prisoner of War Camp during WWII.  Author Darren Arnott tells us about the history including his book about a darker chapter of the camp. You can find Darren's book at https://darrenarnott.com/ We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 77th podcast for Thanks for your Service and the first for 2025. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Ceylon, modern day Sri Lanka, was a strategic point for the allies in WW2 including hosting thousands of Australians.   Meg Adams has recently contributed to a book titled In the fight- Australians and that war in Burma 1942-1945.  Meg talks to us about the contributions and support of allied troops in Ceylon by units and some of the volunteers and aid workers including some remarkable women. Meg's chapter is titled Proud of their part- Volunteers in Ceylon.  The book 'In the fight- Australians and the war in Burma 1942-1945' is edited by Andrew Kilsby and Daryl Moran and is published by Big Sky Publishing. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.   

Welcome to our 76th podcast for Thanks for your Service and the last for 2024 Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting one of Australia's leading military historians at a conference hosted by Military History & Heritage Victoria.  Professor Peter Stanley joins us from Canberra and tells us about his career and his books..many books… Seasons Greetings to all our listeners wherever you are listening from. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast.  If you have any special requests or suggestions for our podcast, please get in touch. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

Welcome to our 75th podcast for Thanks for your Service. Our focus is on historical topics relating to the Australian military. You can find us on Facebook, X and Youtube.  Just search for Thanks For Your Service.  Our website is www.thanksforyourservice.net  .  You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Who would have thought the 1st AIF had cycling battalions.  Ally Roche from the Australian War Memorial, herself a cycling enthusiast joins us to tell us about these units. You can find out more information on the cycling battalions on our website. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

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 recently hosted an advance screening of a new documentary titled ‘Anzac-The Greek Chapter'.  It tells the story of the Anzacs in Greece during the 1941 campaign, as told by the veterans themselves.  Jim Claven, Secretary of the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee joins us to tell us more. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Do you have a relative who has served in the Australian military? Our family military history research packages sources records to better understand the service and experience of those who served.  You can find out more information on our website. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

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 there was a mass prisoner of war escape from a POW camp in Cowra, New South Wales.  Cowra is preparing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of what is called the Cowra Breakout.  Let's find out more. You can find out more information on the anniversary at the Cowra Council website at www.cowracouncil.com.au We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

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 about doing these podcasts is coming across what I call hidden treasures of Australian military history located in our own backyard.  Who knew for example of a WW2 secret maintenance base for Flying boats in rural Victoria which we covered in podcast number 5, or the secret special forces camp in suburban Melbourne at Park Orchards that we covered in podcast 57.  Last summer, I took the boys to Werribee in Melbourne where an original WW2 hangar houses the only remaining B24 Liberator in the Southern Hemisphere and is one of only eight still existent in the world. We join Paul Rorke as he takes on the tour of the Liberator and the restoration project. The website for the b24 Liberator Restoration is www.b24australia.org.au The restoration project also welcomes any donations and you can find more information on their website. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.   

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 the 80th anniversary of the Great Escape.  Many people have heard about the mass escape of allied POWs from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 which was immortalised in book and film.  You may not know a lot about the Australian POWs who took part.  Canberra author Kristen Alexander joins us to tell us more. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.   

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.net In 2023, the National Archives of Australia reached a significant milestone, having digitised more than one million World War II records. These records include names, photos, enlistments, movements, transfers, promotions and fates, which are now being made available online free-of-charge. Rebecca Penna joins us to tell us about this milestone. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.   

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 remarkable insight into the Australian army's vital yet probably least known units- Unrecovered War Casualties - Army.  Major Cameron Clarke joins us to tell us more. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. We will be back with you in January 2024.  Seasons Greetings, thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

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 us and if you are looking for idea for a present, keep listening. My exposure to WW2 prisoners of war were shaped by movies such as the Great Escape and The Wooden Horse.  Kristen Alexander joins us to talk about her latest book titled Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III. It's a fascinating insight into the life in captivity of Australian POWs.   A signed edition of the book can be ordered through www.alexanderfaxbooks.com.au We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

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 of doing these podcasts is coming across remnants of Australian military history that not a lot of people know about.  Who knew that Ballarat in Victoria played a major role in training RAAF personnel during World War 2.  Peter and Janet from the Air Force Association of Ballarat joins us to talk about 1 WAGS (Wireless Air Gunnery) school. The website for 1 WAGS is https://www.1wags.org.au/  We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

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 local park in Australia you may have come across a remnant of the colonial era of our military past…an old canon or gun.  John Rogers has spent considerable time and effort in researching Victoria's guns. The website for the guns is www.cerberus.com.au/victoriasguns We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice. 

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 Veterans day and for 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. One Vietnam veteran is commemorating in a special way.  Rick MCarthy joins us from Brisbane to tell us more. Ricks website is www.rickswalkforveterans.com.au/ and there is also a link to honour our fallen on his page. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.

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 chatted to Karen and Tom, the folks behind the podcast and web page for 108 Years Later.  It follows the day by day diary entries  from a WWI digger.  We catch up with Karen to see what has happened to the digger since February 1915 and to find out the identity of this previously unknown soldier. The link to 108 Years later is www.108yearslater.com We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews helps new listeners find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.   

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 happening on Saturday 23 May 2023 involving a war horse called Sandy.  Ross Smith from Tallangatta in Victoria joins us to tell us about the the unveiling of a statue of Sandy the War Horse. You can find links to Sandy the War Horse on our Facebook and web page.   We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.   

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 I recently came across a comprehensive research project on the 22nd Battalion of the First AIF whilst doing some research on my grandfathers service in WW1.  The projects author, Greg Stephens tells us about the project and his grandfathers service. You can find links to Following the 22nd on our Facebook page and our podcast.  The website is www.anzac-22nd-battalion.com We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.  Lest We Forget.

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 journalist who has been living on the Gallipoli peninsula since 2002.  He talks to us about life on the peninsula, its history and the WW1 battlefields. Bill's Twitter Id is @BillSellars2 and you can direct message him through Twitter. We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.

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 digger kept a diary and recorded his departure in late 1914 from Australia to the shores of Gallipoli.  In 2022, his diary was found.  Let's find out what happened some 108 years later… The website is www.108yearslater.com We are keen to hear your feedback by leaving a review on your podcast app.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening and thanksforyourservice.

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 During the January school holidays, I took the family down to Williamstown in Melbourne to visit a unique historical floating museum.  This is part two of a two part podcast. The website for the HMAS Castlemaine is www.hmascastlemaine.org.au If you are ever visiting Melbourne it is well worth a visit.  Thanks to Dick Budzieny for his time to take us through the ship.  We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 During the January school holidays, I took the family down to Williamstown in Melbourne to visit a unique historical floating museum.  This is part one of a two part podcast. The website for the HMAS Castlemaine is www.hmascastlemaine.org.au If you are ever visiting Melbourne it is well worth a visit.  Thanks to Dick Budzieny for his time to take us through the ship.  We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.  

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 corner and if you need a last minute gift then don't look past Michael Veitch's latest book.   In Part 2 of this podcast, Michael talks about his new book 'Australia's Secret Army- The story of the Coast Watchers, the unsung heroes of Australia's armed forces during World War II' You can buy the book at most book stores, major retailers and it is also available on Amazon. We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 corner and if you need a last minute gift then don't look past Michael Veitch's latest book.   In Part 1 of this podcast, Michael talks about his new book 'Australia's Secret Army- The story of the Coast Watchers, the unsung heroes of Australia's armed forces during World War II' You can buy the book at most book stores, major retailers and it is also available on Amazon. That's the podcast for today. We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 empty in the north east Melbourne suburb of Park Orchards. Originally built as a country club house in 1928, during WW2 the Australian army soon requisitioned the chalet and surrounds.  In 1942 the Chalet became the administrative headquarters of the Land Headquarters Heavy Wireless Group. It's signallers, numbering up to 400 , set up camp at the nearby oval.  During the war, the Chalet and grounds were used as a transmission and receiving station, and later trained agents setting up clandestine networks for espionage and intelligence as the School for Eastern Interpreters. Recently, I travelled to Park Orchards and met with David McNiff, the President of the Park Orchards Ratepayers Association.  David tells us about the history of the chalet, and it's sad state of affairs today. Pora's web site is pora.org.au You can find out more information about the Chalet on our Facebook page. We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 had 5 ships named HMAS Sydney.  The second HMAS Sydney was lost with all hands during WWII and it was only after a remarkable search the wreckage was found some sixty years after she sunk.. Let's learn more about the fate of HMAS Sydney II. We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 significant monuments that commemorative the service of those who fought in war.  Phil Roberts joins us to tell us more. We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. More on the book can be found at https://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/arch-centenary Thanks for listening.

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 bands only formally welcomed women into their ranks after the introduction of the Sex Discrimination act in 1984.  Dr Anthea Skinner joins us to talk about Ladies to the front: the hidden history of women in Australian airforce bands. The Conversation article can be found here. We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 dramatises a real life camp breakout during World war II.  Kristen Alexander joins us to chat about an Australian angle involving Stalag Luft III. Kristen's website is http://www.kristenalexander.com.au/ We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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.  About 4.30am Sunday 25 April 1915, the first Australian boats  approached Anzac Cove.  Who were the first ashore.  Peter Burgess has written a book on the subject. Peter's book can be purchased at https://www.thefirstashore.com/ We are keen to hear your feedback and if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and Facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 is riding the Australian Remembrance Trail though Belgium and France to raise money for a veterans charity. The link to Mates for Mates to donate is here. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and Facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 Anzacs is being held now until the end of April at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute in Ballarat Victoria.  More information can be found at www.ballaratmi.org.au/event/ballarat-anzacs-display-talks-research/ We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 from Memento Media received a grant from the federal government and produced a eight part documentary series chronicling the experience of service women from Point Cook in Victoria. The links to the documentary can be found at www.mementomedia.com.au We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 book is titled The Battle of the Bismarck Sea- the forgotten battle that saved the Pacific and he joins us for the second part of our two part podcast. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 book is titled The Battle of the Bismarck Sea- the forgotten battle that saved the Pacific and he joins us for this two part podcast series and tells us about it. Michael continues with more on his book in the next podcast, We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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.  The Shrine at Surrey Gardens in Surrey Hills, features a carved timber Honour Roll.  The Shrine was dedicated in 1918 before the armistice.  Sandra Dexter with a background in journalism and editing joins us to talk about the history of the shrine and her recent involvement to identify servicemen and women from Surrey Hills and Mont Albert. In 1919 the two canons that flank the shrine were relocated from the Canterbury Sports Grounds and are known as Brooks babies.  The origins of the guns may well be the subject of a future podcast. We also now have a Youtube channel.  Just search for thanksforyourservice and you can find links on our website and Facebook page..  There is vision of the Shrine on our Youtube Channel. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.   Your reviews help others find our podcast. You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 Doyle, the Director of the Sir John Monash Centre. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.  The links are on our website and facebook page. Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Seasons greeting to all our listeners and as always thanks for listening. The Sir John Monash Centre website is www.sjmc.gov.au  

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 Memorial, join us in Podcast 26 to talk about the Australian involvement in the Russian Civil War. For todays podcast, David joins us again as we learn about Australia's involvement in battles with the forces of Vichy France in World War II.  You can find the relevant links for this podcast on our facebook page and we will keep you posted on David's book.  You can pre-order here. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.   www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 in Melbourne.  Graeme Disney, historian at the club joins us. You can read more about the J7 via this link https://syc.com.au/about/governance/j7-submarine/ We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  You can help support this podcast via Patreon or Buymeacoffee.   www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tfys Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 MBE, MC wrote every Sunday to his fiance during World War 1 and his service saw him deployed to special missions in Persia and Russia.  Over 100 years later those letters formed a book written by his grandson Mark Latchford who joins us to talk about his book and his grandfather, Mark can be contacted via email at mark_latchford@hotmail.com and his book 'Letters to Lily Vale' can be purchased through www.openbookhowden.com.au/product/letters-to-lily-vale/ We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  You can help support this podcast via Patreon.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 former military intelligence officer, now Canberra-based intelligence historian, specialising in World War Two Southeast Asia in general, and Malaysia, Singapore and Borneo in particular. Working across several regional languages including Mandarin Chinese. Her current research focus is on Secret Intelligence Australia or SIA. A little-known wartime MI6 agency that operated out of Australia between 1942-1945. Kate is currently working on a book on Secret Intelligence Australia due out hopefully next year.  Kate gives an insight into SIA and joins us from Canberra.  Kate's website is https://simply-history.com/ We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  If you are interested in support of this podcast you can also support us via Patreon.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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, number 37, we had the honour of talking to a WW2 veteran and one of the last Coastwatchers, Jim Burrowes.  Jim takes us through his experience as a Coastwatcher in the Pacific Campaign as we learn more about the Coast Watching organisation that had a significant impact on operations in that campaign. This is Part 2 of of that interview with Jim. You can find the relevant links to this podcast on our Facebook page.  Jim's blog can be found at www.thelastcoastwatcher.wordpress.com/  We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  If you are interested in support of this podcast you can also support us via Patreon.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 today as we have the honour of talking to a WW2 veteran and one of the last Coastwatchers, Jim Burrowes.  Jim takes us through his experience as a Coastwatcher in the Pacific Campaign as we learn more about the Coast Watching organisation that had a significant impact on operations in that campaign. This is Part 1 of a two part interview with Jim. You can find the relevant links to this podcast on our facebook page.  Jim's blog can be found at www.thelastcoastwatcher.wordpress.com/  We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  If you are interested in support of this podcast you can also support us via Patreon.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 and historian and has written a number of books on Australian military history topics.  His latest book is about a secretive unit which was the precursor to the Australian SAS.  Will can be contacted via email at will@willdavies.net.au We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.  And if you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcast apps, please leave a review.  If you are interested in support of this podcast you can also support us via Patreon.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Your support helps us with the production of this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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 support us via Patreon.  Your gracious support helps us with costs such as hosting and production of the podcast.  Even as little as one dollar can help.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice

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 through your feedback. If you're listening to us via ITunes or other podcasting apps please leave a review. You can also support us via Patreon.  Your gracious support helps us with costs such as hosting and production of the podcast.  Even as little as one dollar can help.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice

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 years after his death, his daughter, Jenny Merrell, applied for his service medals only to find out he was not entitled to his third medal, the Australian Service Medal 1939-1945 due to his dishonorable discharge.  Jenny joins us from Queensland to tell us about her story which ultimately overturned the dishonourable discharge and the awarding of the ASM. 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 support us via Patreon.  Your gracious support helps us with costs such as hosting and production of the podcast.  Even as little as one dollar can help.  The link is  www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice  

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 overseas.  Stella Bowen was employed as an Australian official war artist during World War II. Bomber crew is a moving tribute to six Australians and one Englishman comprising a Lancaster bomber crew of No. 460 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force. On 28 April 1944, the night after Bowen completed the initial sketches for the painting, the airmen were reported missing over Germany. One of the crew that went missing was  RAAF flyer officer Hector 'Hec' Harrison. We speak with Hec’s cousin Rob Trevan. We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page. 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 support us via Patreon.  Your gracious support helps us with costs such as hosting and production of the podcast.  Even as little as one dollar can help.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Thanks for listening

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: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-secret-code-breakers-of-central-bureau-david-dufty/book/9781925322187.html His new book, Radio Girl, is available at https://www.booktopia.com.au/radio-girl-david-dufty/book/9781760876654.html We are keen to hear your feedback. Leave a comment on our Facebook page. 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 support us via Patreon.  Your gracious support helps us with costs such as hosting and production of the podcast.  Even as little as one dollar can help.  The link is www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Thanks for listening.

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 us via ITunes, please leave a review. You can also email us at info@thanksforyourservice.net Finally, if you are interested in sponsorship/support of this podcast, head to our website or email us.  You can also support us via Patreon. The link is  www.patreon.com/thanksforyourservice Thanks for listening.