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Thanks

very apt I think

No worries

Our great uncle . Claude Herbert Roberts .he was a brave gentle person much loved .our pops brother .Arthur Richard Roberts .brothers and sisters Oliva. Jack, Jonathan , harrison .Irene six children . Only three lived on .❤ adults .

it truly was an honour to tell his story

yes Quokka, your basically the reason why the community is named that XD

Thank you very much Crabman

that is what I've found as well. the main distinction was the fact that Australian troops were volunteers whereas, by the time that Australian troops reached the Western Front they were primarily conscripts. as for British High Command, the rank and file Australian soldier probably would have had minimal opinions of them and it was only after the fact that opinions on Churchill started to gain notoriety

she was indeed very resilient

is this the part where I tell you that the Australian Imperial Force was strictly a Volunteer unit?

@@iwasonlydoingmyjobpodcast That just it they were not, they were a mix of volunteers and conscripts, Not even the English Imperial force were all volunteers, but a mix

While the Australian Military was a mix of those called up for mandatory service and volunteers. The six men of the 2nd Mountain Battery govered in this episode were either members of the Permanent Military Force (IE they were full time soldiers) or members of the Australian Imperial Force who as required by the1903 Defence Act, Volunteers, as conscripts were only permitted to serve within Australian Territorial holdings

@@iwasonlydoingmyjobpodcast Agree, we only need to look at the conscription referendums in ww1. Tasmanian artillery units were formed in 1859 and 1860, later becoming 16 Field Bty.

the AIF was 100% volunteer in both World Wars. The 1916 Conscription Referendum was won by the anti conscription lobby i.e. no conscripts in the 1st AIF. In the 2nd World War the Australian Militia was a mix of volunteers and conscripts. The 2nd AIF was all volunteer and formed to fight outside Australia's boundaries. The militia could only fight inside Australia's territories.

unfortunately there are parts of history that are incredibly dry, and sadly the story of the 2nd Mountain Battery is incomplete, though I will take the feedback on board. thanks for sticking around so long though

it definitely played heavily into it. Monash's incorporating various different approaches and implementing them into a small scale limited objective attack definitely threw his German opposite numbers, by this point also Australian troops were conducting peaceful penetration operations at a small scale throughout the line, so seeing groups of Australians advancing over a limited area to secure lines so German officers would have expected that, but nothing the size of Hamel, also the conditional use of coloured smoke and gas would have also caught them by surprise.

most were of the generation removed from the war it commemorated, and it was considered to be an unattractive statue as it just protruded out of the ground

100% that is correct

Appreciate it Gunny

thanks Quokka

Your welcome mate

Australian Peacekeepers as part of Operation Paladin are based in Jerusalem as part of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (which Australia has commanded several times) implementing the mandate to supervise the truce agreed to in 1948 at the conclusion of the first Arab/Israeli War. On 29 May 1948, the Security Council, in resolution 50 (1948), called for a cessation of hostilities in Palestine and decided that the truce should be supervised by the UN Mediator, with the assistance of a group of military observers. The first group of military observers, which became known as the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), was the first peacekeeping mission established by the United Nations. UNTSO Military Observers remain in the Middle East to monitor ceasefires, supervise armistice agreements, prevent isolated incidents from escalating and assist other United Nations peacekeeping operations in the region. Furthermore, Peacekeepers can only enter a country after a peace treaty has been signed, and both parties have requested the UN or a similar body to establish a peacekeeping force. you can't just send troops into a foreign country.

sadly you would be correct

100%

i have heard many a story similar to this one

Australians were very good at souvinering, to the point where it was thought that the AIF marched off into battle with pockets full of collection tags. and yes Australian forces had a reputation of souvinering everything not bolted down and the things that were they'd unbolt them and souvenir the object and the bolts themselves. everything they did was legally obtained, even if they had to be told stop trying to claim British and French tech as a souvenir

it truly was

Glad you think so!

it was great to see you there

The current source of Victoria Cross metal is understood to be a cascabel - the round protrusion at the back of a cannon - stored under secure conditions at a MOD depot in Donnington, Shropshire. Dr Marriott found historical evidence that this cascabel may have been taken from a gun captured during the Second Anglo-Chinese War of 1860, three years after the first Victoria Cross awards were made

I definitely have videos lined up on the Woomera, and Kittyhawk but you are correct

oh it definitely was. a very unique design for the period as well

100%

There are no biplanes

considering that the cruise speed of late model P-51's is 630 kph, a Spitfires is 636 kph and a F-35's slowest speed it can fly at is 185.5 kph which means that the 35's can easily keep pace with the Mustang and Spitfire also they are not biplanes they are both aluminium hulled monoplanes

Mb i get confused between propeller planes

all good mate :D i get the same issue with current generation jets

he definitely was

Churchill had an interesting way of remembering history

Thanks, will do!

Australia also hsd the fourth largest Navy afterwards. But Australia's contributions were often overlooked by Western historians

Thanks

Glad you think so! The Boomerang had potential had it entered production in 1942

Thanks Grace

Glad you enjoyed it Crabman

🎉thanks Grace!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this. 😀

Really?

thanks for reaching out, it truly was an honour to tell his story

Welcome to the First World War

Thank you so much

What is not accurate?

@@iwasonlydoingmyjobpodcast I knew Vivian Bullwinkle personally. She told me many stories and I have read a lot about her as well - because of the great affection and respect I have for her still now. The nurses on Radje Beach were all gang raped by the Japanese - the same crew with the same commander who committed the atrocity / war crimes at St Stevens College Hong Kong. Some of the British prisoners bolted into the jungle and came back and saw the Nurses were all sexually abused / gang raped because of they saw their uniforms were all dishevelled indicating forced sexual activity. Also the exit wound on Vivian's body did not match the exit wound of the uniform on display now in the War Museum in Canberra today. And of course the Buttons - which you correctly mentioned. She never confided in me but she did tell people just before her death - of the gang rape. The Australian Government ordered her silence - because Japan were our new best friends because of the Cold War with the USSR and anti Japanese sentiment was already huge and monumental and the Aust Govt reasoned that if the people of Australia knew what happened to Vivian and "Our girls" on Radje Beach it would possibly get really ugly. I have written a screenplay about Vivian simply called "Vivian" based on our conversations - some things will be remembered by me to my dying day. Anyway - this production you have here is brilliant - thank you for that. My point is - the water was not deep. After the gang rapes, the 22 nurses knew they were to die - they had seen the Japanese soldiers come back wiping the blood off their bayonets after butchering all the wounded soldiers. The nurses were all brutalised beyond description and were ordered into the water. On the left hand side the nurses were ankle deep in sea water and it got progressively deeper as the line progressed to the right. Vivian was the last nurse on the right hand side and she stood in knee deep water waiting to be cut down by the bullets and happy she was going to see her late Father again. All the nurses were saying their prayers out loud as they waited and as the nurse to their left was gunned down. The nurse to Vivian's left said "Two things I always hated - the Sea and Japs and I ended up with both." One by one the 22 nurses were shot in the back. It was not quick. The Japanese took their time. The nurses stood traumatised and numb with shock. Vivian was shot and the impact knocked her unconscious in knee deep water that was filled with fresh blood. The Japanese soldiers went along the shallow water and if a nurse was still alive, they bayonetted them to death. At the end was Vivian out cold but the Japanese soldier did not want to go into knee deep bloody water to check the last body because it would ruin his uniform. So Vivian was out cold in bloody water and the Japanese just walked away after this evil episode. Then she got up and ran into the jungle and slept or was unconscious for two days. She didn't know if she was asleep or unconscious but she was out and down for the count for two whole days. Then she met Pat Kingsley - and the story goes on. Anyway - well done - thank you for honouring a great person - I just wanted to let you know the stuff I knew - some from her - my beautiful friend Vivian.

thank you for sharing this @@thesheepstationcook8266 I did touch on this at the end of the episode. I regret I didn't get a chance to meet Vivian personally, and for that I envy you.

@@iwasonlydoingmyjobpodcast You are welcome. She was beautiful - I adored her. Sometimes on ANZAC Day I march with a piece of paper with "Vivian Bullwinkle" written on it just to keep her name alive. She was very chatty and believed it was her duty to tell people what happened while many are silent about the horrors they witnessed. I am honoured and blessed that I met her and she told me many stories - some are really funny and some are really beautiful. So... inspired by this great Lady I feel it is now my duty to tell people about her and what happened to her. You are doing that so I thank you.

What part is not accurate? It sounded pretty accurate from what I have read. I believe part of the reason Vivian was silenced was because America wanted an alliance with Japan as a counterpoint to communism, so they were willing to overlook war crimes in the pacific. I'm happy for someone to correct me if that isn't true.

100% agree

100% that is how I learned his name, but I was already aware of his statue

Sure

@@iwasonlydoingmyjobpodcast do it well mate. Don’t go through white history. Know the history through an Arabs eyes. I’m sharing you so if you’re wrong Lebs will shit on you everywhere haha good job though love the work

i will endeavour to tell the truth

What is BS?

my pleasure mate, have a great one