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24.01.2022 With the Russian surrender in mid-December 1917, the Germans were able to move 60 Divisions from the Eastern Front, completely changing the balance of military power for the allies on the Western Front.
21.01.2022 The culmination of ten years work; my part in the ANU silly hat parade on Friday.
21.01.2022 I am just returning to Hanoi from Sapa, a large Hmong (and other tribes) town in northern Vietnam. Being over 2000 metres in altitude, Sapa in almost continually in cloud. While the views are amazing, so I am told, I thought I would give you an example.
20.01.2022 POST 4: The German people, by the winter of 1917-1918, were starving. Known as the turnip winter, people were forced to eat turnips usually fed to their livestock. Many died.
19.01.2022 The attached article and book excerpt were in the Weekend Australian. This is part of an initiative I am working on with Albert Wong to remember the Chinese Anzacs and the Chinese Labour Corps and their sacrifice in the Great War.
16.01.2022 When I visited the Sir John Monash Centre at the Australian National Memorial at Villers Bretonneux recently, I was amazed with one particular exhibit. In a glass cabinet were four uniformed maniquins. The commentary stated that the one at the left end of the line was dressed in the uniform of that worn by Private Edward Lynch of the 45th Battalion AIF. Just amazing - the author of Somme Mud whose manuscript I had the privilege to edit and see published in 2006.
15.01.2022 Nymagee sunset. It was here in about 1882 that my grandfathers elder brother was born, the first white baby in this remote NSW copper mining town near Cobar. His name was Nymagee Davies.
13.01.2022 On the 27th May I posted the content that you can read in the photo. It concerns the assassination of a notorious German SS Général by Czech partisans in Prague... in 1942. Would you believe that Facebook has pulled this historical post down claiming it goes against our community standards. Can you believe this given they they allow terrorise groups to post what they want yet tell me this is against community standards. I bet it will not be up for long. See more
12.01.2022 Hello friends, Over the next few weeks I am doing a series of anniversary FB entries to coincide with significant dates in 1918. I will then continue this afte...r Anzac Day as I will be leading a tour on the Western Front and will try to report daily and show some then and now pictures. So here we go.... POST 1: With the Russian surrender in mid-December 1917, the Germans were able to move 60 Divisions from the Eastern Front, completely changing the balance of military power for the allies on the Wastern Front. This as we shall see had profound results. See more
11.01.2022 My little pile of gum tree wreaths ready to place on Australian graves on the Western Front during my tour in April-May this year. Have a couple of places if anyone is interested.
11.01.2022 While America declared war on Germany in April 1917, by June that year only 14,000 troops had landed in France and even by March 1918, only 300,000 had landed and few had seen active service. This is one of the unfathomables about the Great War the Americans were in it but they weren’t.
09.01.2022 POST 3: By early 1918, Germany realised the chances of winning the war was looking more difficult by the day. Serious strategic decisions needed to be made and quickly. And they were resulting in a huge impact on both allied and German forces and the real turning point that led to the allied victory on late 1918.
06.01.2022 POST 6: Within days, the German army had retaken all the hard won battlefields of 1916 including Pozieres and Bullecourt. They were unstoppable and as General Haig said, the British army had its back to the wall. The Australians were not involved in the British retreat, but were rushed south from around Ypres to form a defensive line across the Somme to defend Amiens.
03.01.2022 If anyone is interested in joining a few mates on a Western Front tour in early May next year, let me know. I will be visiting Montbrehain and the eastern battlefields at the Hindenburg Line near the St Quentin tunnel.
